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For those of you who have grumbled at the Editorials in the RO go and read the one by Phil Deaves in the January issue - what a positive breath of fresh air. Well done Phil for cheering us all up, it's a far cry from the gloomy days of the 1970s - I have always considered the period from 1969 to 197...

HI pdeaves Week after week there is a signalling or points failure somewhere between Reading and Paddington (not the same one each time) that causes pandemonium. What can be done to make the railway more resilient? Remember that very rarely can the railway 'just' do such-and-such. It costs money to ...

He was always a most courteous man.

Meanwhile according to the FT.


London rail stocks head in different directions

Michael Hunter

Shares in the UK?s biggest train operating companies headed in opposite directions on Thursday in response to the government?s award of the West Coast rail franchise.

A consortium made up of Stagecoach and Virgin has won the franchise to run the East Coast mainline rail route. The firms promised to invest ?140m in the route over eight years, and will pay the government ?3.3bn for the contract. The franchise, which covers the route between London and Edinburgh, ha...

I have had a go at downloading the December RO today and despite my original scepticism have found it easy to download and read. And you can save as a .pdf if you wish. If I can manage it then anyone can. Thank you to everyone who has been involved with its introduction - we can still say that we ar...

I joined the RCTS having received the November 1979 issue as part of the pack received from Geoff Hooper as a result of my enquiry- I found the contents quite amazing and sent off my first subscription the following day. I attended my first meeting January 1983 with the London Branch - Jeremy Harris...

Just to get things moving - is the RO as good as it gets.
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