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Opening up new opportunities • The emerging role of open access in Great British Railways

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Waterloo open access plan for disused Fawley line

Rolling stock requirements prompted sale of Carmarthen open access rights

FirstGroup targets the road market with Paignton trains

Group’s half-year results reveal plans for “operational delivery” for rail

Passenger services return to Ashington

GWR cancels Sunday services

Scottish HST removal edges closer

A path to an integrated transport network

Battery-electric preferred for North Downs Line

GWML track move for HS2 Old Oak Common work

HS2 switches to be supplied from Hull site

Euston large screen reactivated to display live travel information

Track and signalling contracts awarded

Council concerns over rail schemes

Regulator assesses assistance delivery

Calls grow for full EWR electrification to boost freight

New freight flow using IDA wagons

Maersk switches some services to London Gateway

DCRail begins cross-London aggregates flows

Thompson to leave HS2 role

Go-op fundraiser: community shares

Longest-serving railway family

Siemens’ new site gains approval

Final Class 507s heading for scrap

Consultation into Welsh crossing closures

Ryde Pier “on schedule” for May 2025 reopening

Freight bosses fear losing paths through Manchester

Class 93 undertakes first test turns on WCML

AWC strike threat abates

New XC service links capital cities

‘99s’ to operate on renewable fuels

RAIL PROFILE: HEIDI ALEXANDER

Hitachi pushes on with ‘810’ assembly and testing

266-015 heads for conversion - as the last new Class 66 for the UK?

Spot hire Class 08 shunters on the move

Former DRS Class 37s return to main line duty

Modification to Drain Train ‘20s’

Wolverton Mk 5s Chiltern-bound?

News In Brief

Eversholt’s ‘Renatus’ fleet heading for scrap

Regional News

Uncertainty on Access for All plans

More awards for rail travel company

News in pictures • If you have taken a photograph that tells a railway story, please send it to rail@bauermedia.co.uk.

Taking the legwork out of basic visual track inspections • PHILIP HAIGH joins one of Network Rail’s video inspection units, to learn how the technology is improving detection, efficiency and safety

What next for High Speed 2? • HS2 has been mired in controversy for years as fierce arguments continue about spiralling costs and what will actually be built. BEN JONES considers the future of the project under a new Labour government

HS2’s complex alignments at Calvert • CHRIS HOWE reports on construction progress of a short section that will be key to providing links with East West Rail and other rail facilities

Pennine progress spanning 183 years • TONY STREETER looks at the long history of Todmorden Viaduct

Improving train travel for deaf passengers • South Western Railway is...