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The Budget’s pros and cons • Light rail boost, but light on detail and not great for freight

RAIL

Reeves commits funding for HS 2 tunnelling to Euston

COMMENT

Budget: rail freight sector finds little to cheer

Omitted from Reeves’ speech… but 4.6% increase in regulated rail fares

Green MSPs pinpoint key role of peak fares in Scottish budget

Funds for Supertram renewal

Further funding allocated for West Midlands Metro

Cambrian crash: sanding hoses blocked on TfW ‘158’

TfW forced to cut back services owing to rolling stock shortage

Railhead conditions lead to overshoot

Wheelslip grinds deep groove into rail

High Delay Repay figures don’t tell the whole story

Train boarding changes initiated to alleviate ‘Euston rush’

East West Rail confirms electrification plans

Safety digest on ‘345’ overspeed

Route directors moving at NR

NRM request for visitors’ photos

Further ECML signalling tests

ScotRail cuts opening hours at 54 ticket offices

GBRf names Class 66 after former RAIL editor

Eastern Region improvement plan

Direct Amsterdam trains to resume

Northern’s union agreement set to ease Sunday shortages

Trainline adds Railcard restrictions warning in the wake of prosecutions

Emergency stop buttons added to MPVs after collision

GA car park row goes to High Court

Foundation work under way on HS2 bridge

Line closure for electrification

1960s track to be replaced in Essex

Work will close ‘Sunshine Coast’

Electric Class 807s: the final piece of the Avanti jigsaw

CFPS engineer resigns - and society turns down offers

Class 68s used for RHTT cover

HST on eBay ends glamping plan

Crewe InterCity charity shoot raises more than £5,000

LNWR ‘350/2s’ taken off-lease

West Coast Mk 2s on the move

Another GBRf ‘66’ enters traffic

News In Brief

Battery-electric ‘08e’ shunter passes quarry test

Regional News

New hourly ‘Enterprise’ service after Grand Central opening

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Over-budget and out of control? HS2 is no different… • How is the government faring in getting support from the other political parties? In the build-up to the General Election we consulted closely with the industry to devise a seven-point manifesto to create a sound base for Britain’s railways. HOWARD JOHNSTON assesses point two in terms of how we are getting to grips with HS2

GA ‘FLIRTS’ with fleet excellence • BEN JONES visits East Anglia to see how the Swiss-built Stadler FLIRT bi-mode trains - and the Derby-built ‘Aventras’ - have helped Greater Anglia to become the country’s best-performing operator in the five years since their introduction

Wales and Western’s route to reliability • Network Rail’s Project Brunel plan to improve performance on the Wales and Western Region has been accepted by the regulator. But how...