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January 2001

Corbett – a month is a short time in railways

Jetrain – short in the grunt department

Gauge Corner Cracking tests engineering nerve

New trains – unhappy new year

 

February 2001

Franchise replacement – back to the future

Can we create a simpler railway?

2001 – the year of common sense?

Mk 1 stock replacement – going nowhere slowly

Rich tea biscuit

March 2001

Hatfield Inquiry – HSE inexperience shows

Hatfield – 115-0 in 17 seconds

Uniquely rotten rail

InterCity East Coast spins on

Electrification – off the SRA's agenda

Alstom dumped in SWT bid

April 2001

Pendolino – te amo, m'duck

ECML – Morton spins out of control

Great Heck highlights double standards

Great Heck - the physics of crashworthiness

 

May 2001

Cup and cone – now it's up to the TOCs

ETCS – money no object for the tax-payer

Resource issues at heart of ETCS implementation

Hatfield hammers Virgin Trains – who pays?

 

June 2001

Desiro UK – Siemens bets the farm

FGE boobs on replacement trains

Mk 1 replacement - now for NSC

Axle counter oversight hits WCRM

Hither Green – questions of driver training

 

July 2001

Railtrack ‘investment' – money into a black hole?

TPWS – still forgetting the driver

Disability provision – back to the barricades

 

August 2001

Cullen 1 – into the heart of darkness

VP185 – going the distance

 

September 2001

MANIFESTO – creation of a functioning railway

West Coast signalling – not single spies.

Voyager impresses - Pendolino deceives to flatter

 

October 2001

Time runs out for Manchester South

Railtrack revives the Regions

Catching up on the order hiatus

SPADs – time to face reality

Competition issues on the web

 

November 2001

Byers blitzes Railtrack

Little vision in post meltdown policy

Ticket web-sites proliferate in hard times

 

December 2001

WCRM finally collapses – sort-of - official

Railtrack – ignorant armies wander round

Time's winged chariot (re-set)

Cup & cone not cut & dried

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