Metro-style rail on the core valley lines

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?

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

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

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Two weeks of shuttles to run between Lancashire and Carlisle while a bridge over the M6 is replaced