HS2 is over budget and behind schedule because its complexity and risks were under-estimated, according to the Whitehall spending watchdog.
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HS2 could destroy irreplaceable natural habitats, report warns
HS2 risks destroying “huge swathes” of irreplaceable habitats, including 108 ancient woodlands.
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Podcast: Azuma – Train of the future
This year, LNER launched the new Hitachi-built Class 800 Azuma express trains – due to replace their entire fleet by summer 2020. Railway Magazine Editor
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Stephenson’s Rocket unveiled at National Railway Museum for 10-year stay
The original 1829 steam locomotive Stephenson’s Rocket can be seen from today at the National Railway Museum’s new Brass, Steel and Fire exhibition.
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First Class 313 is sent for scrap as ‘717’ use increases
GOVIA Thameslink sent its first Great Northern route Class 313 for scrap on April 8. Angel Trains-owned set No. 313026 was dispatched to Sims Metals
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Flex: The go-anywhere train
When you’ve invested millions of pounds in updating trains to bring them up to modern standards, what do you do when those trains become surplus to requirements soon afterwards?
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Ron Buckley, Britain’s oldest railway photographer
Chris Milner met centenarian Ron Buckley, a railway photographer with a fascinating past, who took his first railway picture in the 1930s, but also spent more than 40 years employed by both the LMS and BR.
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Contrasting locos debut at Norwich club track
The builder is unknown, but it is possibly of pre-Second World War origin.
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Revolutionary lightweight tram planned for Coventry
It’s design could revise thinking for cities keen to adopt VLRs as a way of cutting emissions.
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