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January 2004.

Traction and rolling stock reliability reviewed

Passenger ridership – varied fortunes

Disability threat recedes

 

February 2004.

Interim Review – mopping up operations continue

Winsor bounced on RAB

Rolling stock Strategy underwhelms

Modelling behind SR power up-grade

Life not art in drama documentary

March 2004.

Darling's Review – content free spin

Vertical integration gains momentum

HST2 – no fleet service this decade?

Another measure of reliability

April 2004.

Interim Review – Winsor nails down funding

Interim settlement highlights structural flaw

Still chasing the unforgiving minute

InterCity reliability – GNER still shining

May 2004.

Darling's Review – integration on the agenda?

Boiling frogs exist - official

New structure explored

Blockades become Standard Practice

Mk1s will run on – and on

Big projects unaffordable

June 2004.

Support needed tops £5billion this year

Boiling frogs take the tram

Rail loses the environmental advantage

Disabled access test case rebuffed.

The Great Debate – latest

July 2004.

Signalling in perpetual crisis

ERTMS - can it be made cost effective?

Rail Review – the Department strikes back

August 2004.

Be positive! Say ‘No'

September 2004.

Cross Country – vision impossible?

Darling ‘seizes' existing powers

New structure - Network Rail rules OK!

Hours of fun with Transport Direct

October 2004.

Pendolino – the final countdown

ROSCOs under the cosh

Northern Franchise – NedRail's Chinese takeaway

Transport (mis)Direct update

November 2004.

Safety critical comm's – culture or procedure?

Who runs then TOCs 2004

Pendolino performance on anniversary awayday

Network Rail private status weakens

December 2004.

£25 million buys Transport Direct Lite

Hitachi preferred for CTRL-Domestics

Disability Legislation – win one.

Pendolino's braking problems

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