Making light rail quicker, cheaper and easier

Transport writer & broadcaster

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CONSIDER FOR A moment, as we are pressured into adopting zero-emissions vehicles and the ban on the sale of fossil-fuelled vehicles becomes imminent, that Britain, in public transport at least, was on

In the final part of our series on alternatives to traditional light rail, PETER PLISNER has been talking to the company behind Revolution VLR - a concept that could be deployed globally as a way of reinvigorating unloved and disused branch lines

PHILIP HAIGH works his way through a new book on the history of railway electrification in Britain, and considers how history could be repeating itself

Benefits could come from development of battery power