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The Christmas getaway • Engineering works, traffic jams… and plans for a better railway

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Roof work and remodelling to transform Huddersfield

Minister confirms: MML electrification to be completed by early 2030s

Grand Central applies for ten-year extension

Haigh launches “national vision of transport”

A LIFE REMEMBERED: John Prescott: 1938-2024

New Transport Secretary Alexander ready to face “mammoth task ahead”

Review into fare evasion under way

Train fares rise five-fold since 1987

Advance changes at Northern

Strategy offers a chance to reset local transport planning • The new Integrated National Transport Strategy has an opportunity to fix some of the issues that have plagued cities and regions in England. But it won’t be easy. RICHARD WILCOCK investigates

News In Brief

‘395’ runs through buffers at depot

Go-op targets 2026 start for open access to Taunton

December 15 date for Ashington

Cadbury to lead carol service

Pay As You Go at Valleys stations

Operators to move ‘in-house’ every three months

HEx responds to decline in numbers

Mines traffic not on rail immediately

Class 180 handles 125mph running during ETCS tests

ECML timetable deal imminent

No extra trains on Cross-City South

Arterios in service, but delays extend by two years

DRS extends Tesco contract

HST’s new home at Plym Valley

‘377/1s’ heading to Southeastern

Railway Benefit Fund appeal

Possible £20m bill after nine HS2 bridges found to have welding defects

Stock faults force Pathfinder to cancel trains

Scotland promises to be ‘the place to be’ for 2025 charters

Could CrossCountry take more ‘221s?’

TPE marks five years of Novas

Mid-Norfolk Railway acquires ‘47s’

NR Class 150 to be withdrawn

WCR’s ‘Jacobite’ coaches return

More Class 756s at work in Wales

DRS ‘88’ moves closer to return

Freightliner gives ‘70’ a retro look for 60th anniversary

West Coast Railways supplies snowplough locomotives

First ‘175’ moves to Laira - but no deal signed yet

Eastern Rail Services plans two charter rakes

Brodie to handle overhaul of Class 170s on hire to ScotRail

News In Brief

Review urges new approach on West Midlands projects

Regional News

Fewer bridge strikes, but they still cost NR £200m

Memorial service for bomb victims

News In Brief

News in pictures • If you have taken a photograph that tells a railway story, please send it to rail@bauermedia.co.uk.

Rail freight sector must bide its time for a clear strategy • How is our new government faring on rail reform? In the build-up to the General Election (RAIL 1012), we consulted closely with the industry to devise a seven-point manifesto to create a sound base for Britain’s railways. In this issue, HOWARD JOHNSTON assesses progress on freight

Get costs and delivery under control • With the eastern and northern legs of HS2...