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Chancellor axes Restoring Your Railway programme

Little return for a lot of effort

Putnam becomes acting chair at Network Rail

More ticket gates planned at Liverpool Street

Mayor Khan held up in bid for Southeastern metro

Ulverston station history on display

Kentish Town shut until December

Par signal box to gain second career as new training facility

Sellafield completes fleet of new shunters

Alstom continues ‘397’ maintenance

HS2 halfway in Northolt Tunnel

Labour’s nationalisation bill has second reading

Rising costs put West Midlands Metro extensions under threat

NYMR oil plan to preserve steam

Manned crossings to be replaced on Dublin-Cork line

Rescue bids for Glasgow ‘Clockwork Orange’ cars

Tyne & Wear Metro Class 555s will ‘hit the ground running’

GCRE and Network Rail partnership aims to boost net zero ambitions

Talks renewed as hopes grow of a strikes resolution

Ballot in Edinburgh over lack of comfort breaks

Subsidies continue for government-operated train companies

“A true gentleman as well as a design genius”

Industry tributes

Study begins into ‘Dorset Metro’

Reduced timetable on CrossCountry

Light Railway role for Coal Office

NAO: scrapping HS2’s northern leg could cost £100m

Regulator tells Network Rail to retain focus on maintenance and renewals

Sculpture recalls ‘Barrow boys’

Carbon Literacy for Rail course

Wigan electrification resumes

DCRail extends maintenance deal with UKRL

Second Stadler Class 93 tri-mode arrives from Spain for ROG

HSTs used as NMTs set for scrap

Latest GBRf Class 66 begins UK duties

Class 18s move for trials with potential customers

More West Midlands Class 730s enter traffic

News In Brief

Express Service readies more ‘86s’

Hydro-shunter makes progress

Avanti accepts first Hitachi Class 807 electric-only set

French Class 20 returns at Glos-Warks diesel gala

Damaged TfW Class 231 heads east for repairs

Varamis confirms interest in Royal Mail Class 325s

Unique Class 37 receives retro Trainload Metals livery

Two more ‘60s’ gain ‘Peak’ names

Rare outing for Lakes Class 20

Mayor targets a 2028 start for West Yorkshire light rail

Regional News

Lunchtime Western raises £10,000

GBRf launches new Widnes turn

Tortoise on the line delays train

“It is hard not to be inspired” by Ukraine’s ‘Iron People’

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Power cut: Britain’s missed opportunities • Successive generations have spurned opportunities to make Britain’s railways cleaner and more efficient by investing in a rolling programme of main line electrification. BEN JONES looks at how the situation could...