New trains and more electrification in scotland

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

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

ALSTOM IS opening its Polmadie depot, in south Glasgow, to the public on Sunday, October 12 to commemorate its 150th anniversary. The depot is currently the main base of the Caledonian Sleeper coachin

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?

Thousands of services and a host of different operators competing for space

Flexibility concerns in the freight sector, against an admission that not all requests have been satisfied