Interviews

Whatever the weather

01 July 2013Weather is going to have an increasing effect on the railways so is going to play a bigger and bigger role in infrastructure and operations planning, due to changes in the climate and the UK’s meteorological conditions. RTM spoke to Met Offi...

Celebrating 150 years of the Underground

01 July 2013David Waboso, director of LU’s capital programmes, gave RTM an update on successes in the 150th anniversary year. 150 years, and the London Underground has never run so many services, whilst implementing such huge upgrades. RTM spoke to LU&...

Easing the bottleneck

01 April 2013Mark Langman, Network Rail route managing director for Wales, spoke to RTM about the recent Loughor Viaduct replacement and track redoubling in south west Wales. Good timetabling can only take services up to a certain rate; eventually track work...

TRACK21: Railway track for the 21st century

01 April 2013Professor William Powrie FREng, principal investigator of TRACK21 at the University of Southampton, describes the latest track research and its implications for the industry. TRACK21 is a collaborative research programme grant funded by the UK En...

Improving railway performance for the passenger

01 April 2013The Office of Rail Regulation’s (ORR’s) new director of railway performance, Alan Price, formerly the rail division infrastructure director at FirstGroup, speaks to RTM about how Network Rail and the operators handle severe weather, an...

Manchester's new man in charge

01 April 2013Dr Jon Lamonte, the former head of Tube Lines, has recently taken over as chief executive of Transport for Greater Manchester, responsible for the city’s growing Metrolink light rail network and also dealing with train and bus operators alon...

Standardising the sub-surface lines

01 April 2013David Waboso, capital programmes director at London Underground, talks to RTM about inspiration from abroad on sub-surface signalling, and progress on cooling the Tube. London Underground (LU) runs one of the world’s most complex metro syst...

Simon Burns at the York railway development site

01 March 2013

Forecasting the need for jobs and skills across the rail industry

28 February 2013

Funding innovation

28 February 2013

Wave and pay

28 February 2013

A depot for Derby

01 January 2013

Next steps at Central Rivers

01 January 2013

Plain Line Pattern Recognition

01 January 2013

Putting human factors at the heart of rail safety

01 January 2013