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Northampton’s regional predicament
13 August 2022Northampton is in, let’s say, an awkward location. Most people will classify it as in the East Midlands, and they’d be right. According to the Office for National Statistics, West and North Northamptonshire are in the East Midlands region. But...

High Speed One: The success of domestic high speed
6 August 2022As some of you may know, I used to live in Canterbury, which is home to two stations. Canterbury East, for services southbound to Dover Priory and northbound to Faversham and London Victoria,

A trip around the West Midlands: Is there enough investment?
30 July 2022In July, I took a trip around the West Midlands county, where Transport for West Midlands, a public body “responsible for coordinating transport services in the West Midlands metropolitan county” operates. There’s been a high level of investment in the...

Lessons from abroad: French Tramways
23 July 2022Hi, my name is Thomas. At the time of writing, I’m Cabinet Executive for the East Midlands at Sustainable Transport Midlands. Recently, I have been exploring the European continent, and unlike your typical tourist, I have been using my time...

Is East West Rail under threat?
16 July 2022There’s a very important question surrounding the rail industry right now. Are big transport infrastructure projects under threat? The answer is, unfortunately, yes, given our financial situation and our frankly anti-public transport Government. This answer is particularly apparent in the...

Harry Burr visits the Rail Forum
9 July 2022This post has been pulled from railforum.uk, although it was initially written by Harry Burr × Harry Burr, Young Persons Ambassador for the Rail Forum, visited last week to spend two days with the Forum. Harry has written a blog...