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January 2003.

Princess feels the pinch

Bowker launches costs squeeze

CBI determines Thameslink programme.

CBI for Fenny Compton resignalling

DfT stands firm in RAIB power struggles

February 2003.

Boiling Frogs – now it's £3billion a year subsidy

Pendolino debut

Short term dominates 10 Year Plan

Who runs the railway 2003

Poikilothermia at Ledburn

March 2003.

Boiling frogs ate my Strategic Plan

Cost explosion exposed by SRA

Potters Bar – Investigators still baffled

Siemens' growing train mountain

April 2003.

New trains – value for money but not cheap

Interim Review – Winsor lays it on the line

CTRL Domestics conundrum

Five car Desiros head north

Turbostar Evo' takes up the challenge

May 2003.

Greater Anglia – franchise replacement gets nasty

Rail renewals play catch up

Network Rail costs rising

SR power upgrade agreements signed

June 2003.

ERTMS – sliding back relentlessly

Signalling – the light dawns

Freight wars test the Regulator

Hardware page

Round, round get around

July 2003.

West Coast round the mulberry bush

Potters Bar – criminal investigations frustrate search for truth

Freight – less can be more?

170 weekend blockades for Great Eastern Main Line

August 2003.

BR infrastructure maintenance spend shock

Virgin franchise support – another £282million needed

Escalating costs threaten Blaenau freight scheme.

Washwood Heath takes Preston down

 

September 2003.

Winsor seeks to cool West Coast boiling frogs

SWT – subsidy up by 350% under replacement franchise

ROSCOs success – at a price

More technical advances reversed

It's too darned hot

October 2003.

Interim Review highlights renewals cost explosion

SRA freaks out the freighters

Signalling redundancies despite ‘resources shortage'

Saturday night and Sunday morning

November 2003.

Stoke – track quality forced opening postponement

‘Everyone's Railway' - preaching to the unconverted

Train builders in a turbulent market

More on speed

In praise of Rio .

December 2003.

Winsor cuts OMR spend

SNO brutally rebuffed

WCML – yet another race against time

Maintenance – bold decision, badly handled

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