by Will Frecknall | 14 Jan 2018 | News
The next Great Western Franchise is due to run from autumn 2020. However, the Department for Transport consider that the specification and award of a new franchise could be delayed for two years until 2020. The Department has entered into a consultation exercise...
by Will Frecknall | 14 Jan 2018 | News
The latest phasing report on HS2 deals with Crewe station where capacity problems are foreseen when HS2 comes whizzing in. The DfT report states: The Phase 2a high speed line connects to the WCML south of Crewe via two spur lines. Some modifications will be required...
by Will Frecknall | 14 Jan 2018 | News
Hereford has been the terminus for through inter-city trains to/from London for many years since the days of the original Great Western Railway. Perhaps the most famous train was the Cathedrals Express, where one could get a civilised breakfast! However, over the last...
by Will Frecknall | 5 Dec 2017 | News
The Department for Transport spin doctors obviously had the Christmas spirit in them when they gave the Transport Minister a bag of rail goodies to announce. Reopening railway lines and stations and hints of measures to transfer more freight from road to rail were the...
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