On the fast track to fast-charging

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

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

PAUL CLIFTON looks at the step-change in digital communications promised for rail passengers

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

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?