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Latest UK rail news

Infrastructure News
Update on structures, track and signalling

Trackwatch
Our unique guide to network changes

Rail Freight
Focus on the railwaya€ s freight moving ability

Informed Sources
Roger Forda€ s in-depth analysis column

Crossrail essential for UK plc


Blood and Custard
Sideways look at todaya€ s railway

Forum
Readers debate and put us straight

2009 stock programme gathers pace
New trains for Londona€ s Victoria Line are taking shape in Derby

The 2007 Beeching Report: a preview
A controversial possibility is suggested by Stephen Grant

West Coast progress report
The Department for Transport reports on the modernisation programme

Encouraging noises on East-West Rail
The outlook for line reopenings in north Buckinghamshire looks positive

Economics for railway operators
New National Express Group chairman Richard Bowker gives an economics lesson

Irish Rail: a 21st century railway
IÃ Chief Executive Dick Fearn provides an update from the Emerald Isle

Rome-Naples proves ETCS concept
ETCS2 with GSM-R controls the trains on Italya€ s recently-opened high-speed line

Europeview
News from around Europe

Service à Bord
Eurostara€ s Da Vinci Code special

Moving Wheels
Traffic and traction round-up

DMUs in the North
A picture miscellany from the North of England

Track Miles
Improvements in store for the North Wales coast route

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Alan Williams
Our inimitable columnist takes a sideways look at railway operations

People
Who's going where a€ latest job moves