Nr to cut back vegetation on heart of wales line

Network Rail accused of “losing control of its estate”

Reduced services could continue for months. RAIL heads out on track to assess the scale of the challenge

It’s the biggest upgrade of the Midlands rail network in the generation. But despite a recent government commitment, all is not what it seems. PETER PLISNER reports

CHRIS HOWE fires up the drone to take exclusive pictures of how the Midland Metro Extension programme is taking shape

24 artificial badger setts… 75 bat boxes… 400,000 trees… and a railway. PHIL MARSH looks at the efforts to enhance the environment while building a 100mph link between Bicester and Bletchley

Our final extract from Bradley’s Railway Guide: A Journey through Two Centuries of British Railway History, 1825-2025 takes us to 2000… and an accident that would change the face of the railway