A bold experiment with industry benefits?

Digital technologies have changed our work and leisure lives. They’re also making our railway safer, cheaper, more efficient, and generally bigger and better.

GARETH DENNIS imagines how railways will look over the next four decades, after DAVID STUBBINGS starts with this decade‘s reforms

HS2… Northern Powerhouse Rail… an “Elizabeth line for the North”. Why is more not being made of the Transpennine Route Upgrade’s potential to improve the region’s rail services?

TIM DUNN is on board Great Western Railway’s 200-mile battery train run

Scotland’s plan to decarbonise the railway will take a decade longer than previously thought, but what’s happening in Wales could point a way forward, suggests CONRAD LANDIN

Britain’s adoption of electric trains and infrastructure has been spasmodic, despite the long-term cost and environmental benefits. HOWARD JOHNSTON reports