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January 2005. -

Christmas Quiz.

Fresh look at Crossrail.

Railways bill.

Train Reliability slow to improve.

February 2005.

Support will top £4billion this year

Signalling review starts

ERTMS – cracks starting to show.

Transport Direct goes public

Fun and games on ICEC franchise.

Captain Deltic's Christmas Cracker Quiz answers

March 2005.

West Coast InterCity – all to play for.

DMUs – a procurement madness case history

Southern Power – SRA defies the laws of physics

Ignorant financial armies clash

April 2005. -

Now it's the £6.5billion railway.

Fares row exposes little change

MagLev seeks UK lift-off

DG Rail – the axeman cometh

May 2005.

ICEC retained with massive premium

HST2 – engage brain before writing spec.

ERTMS – cracks starting to show.

Fares row exposes little change

French see the light

June 2005.

ICEC franchise – phew! What a premium!

ROSCOs face anti-capitalist backlash.

Potters Bar – Formal Inquiry equally baffled

 

July 2005.

CrossRail vs Superlink – deviling the detail

Performance improved in 2004-05

Railtrack's long shadow

Energy costs rising

 

August 2005.

Darling's double deck decoy

TfL finds pearls in Oyster

Gauging policy expands options

Freight to gain from gauging policy

 

September 2005.

HST2 – long, lean, fast but frugal

HST2 power – no easy answer

New disability regulations highlight buggy question

DfT gets out the airbrush

 

October 2005.

How much should the railway cost?

Fight for your right to Oyster

Periodic Review – the process starts now.

Developing the HLOS

HST2 – more seats and more power?

November 2005

Signalling – first signs of order out of chaos

Control Centre technology still in flux

Signalling – how fast can Network Rail spend?

Thameslink 2012 – new trains, simpler signalling

Settle & Carlisle comes round again

December 2005

Darling disowns railway support target

Franchise remapping – one task too many?

Signalling getting older

Policy initiatives – unreality knows no bounds

£50million/year fund for small enhancements

Northern line – politics not technology

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