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January 2000

HMRI goes CYA

Motoring interlude

Tooth and claw in franchise replacement bidding

Bonkers Orr-Watts's Bidwatch

Mk 1 replacement - we'll do it our way

New franchise geography looms

 

February 2000

West Coast Route Modernisation – now its £5.8 billion

West Coast signalling – wait for the fat lady

Captain Deltic rides again

New trains – LTS pays the price

Bidwatch

 

March 2000

Stelios rattles Sir Richard's cage

NMC back in favour

No room at the top

Rival for IC125 re-powering

BIDWATCH (2)

 

April 2000

East Coast – Virgin's Paris Lyon action replay

Vehicle approval gets political

Safety – Prescott 's ‘strip' tease

 

May 2000

Mk1 replacement – SSRA builds a deterrent

SSRA's new trains – procurement wars revisited

Rant of the Month-Time to fight safety hypocrisy

LGRI Pt 2 could put railway on hold

Bid Watch

 

 

June 2000

Disability Regulations must be revised

Signal interlocking acceptance makes progress

Train acceptance – still no easy answers

BIDWATCH

 

 

July 2000

Count-down to controversy

Who runs the railway – 2000?

Freight still in the dependency culture

Angel launches Desiro UK

 

August 2000

ICEC - Virgin hangs tough

West Coast – just the same old crisis

Freight growth – it was just a metaphor

Prism dismantled

September 2000

ECML diesel traction challenge

Two cheers for the 10 year plan

Post Office faces rail quandary

 

 

October 2000

Risk, perception and the cold numbers

New train blues

RVAR – common sense wins!

 

 

November 2000

West Coast 1 - Alstom's mission: really impossible

TASS – Virgin's nightmare acronym

West Coast 2 – who needs remote control?

Spec' creep hits TPWS

Tom and Gerry – irresistible force meets immovable object

 

December 2000

A crisis of confidence

Trouble at t' interface

Gerald takes the flak

 

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