WEST MIDLANDS PREPARES FOR POST-COVID RESET • Extra services and stations • More resilient timetables • New trains on test BATTERIES vs HYDROGEN W...

UNITED IN ANGER North and South feel the pinch TRANS-PENNINE PROMISES BROKEN Integrated Rail Plan disappoints ‘MANAGED DECLINE’ AT TfL? Mayor and...

GREENER AND BETTER Free 32-page decarbonisation supplement EAST MIDLANDS EXPECTS • EMR upgrades its fleets • Wires beyond Kettering? NEW EDINBURG...

EAST COAST UPGRADE • King’s Cross track improvement • May 2022 timetable takes shape • LNER direct to Middlesbrough CLASS 93s TO REVOLUTIONISE FRE...

GREAT WESTERN GOING GREEN• Decarbonisation plans• Greenford battery trial• New locos for the Sleeper?ELECTRIFICATION HOPE?• Drive for efficiencies ...

LNER’S NEW TIMETABLE • Cleethorpes and Middlesbrough direct • Anglo-Scottish acceleration • May 2022 plans analysed HS2 SUPPLEMENT 16-page special...

FINAL SPRINT Can West Midlands deliver for Commonwealth Games? ‘TESCO TRAINS’ Anglo-Scottish freight boom NEW HS2 TRAINS Do claimed benefits stac...

CAPITAL INVESTMENT• New Piccadilly trains• Elizabeth Line success• Sub-surface re-signallingWHAT NEXT FOR AGEING FLEETS?• GWR plots DMU replacement...

WHAT NEXT?• GBR legislation on hold• Electrification plans scaled backSEVERN VALLEY SPLENDOURPictures from our anniversary HST railtourSCOTLAND STR...

TRANS-PENNINE COST SHOCK• £9bn for 76-mile project• Most expensive upgrade ever?WALES & BORDERS SPECIAL• CAF to export from Newport• New trains...

SOUTHEASTERN SUNRISE• Investing in infrastructure• Upgrading the fleetPRIDE IN OUR RAILWAYSixteen-page special report on LGBT+ representation in ra...

FREE DOUBLE-SIDED MAP - SCOTLAND'S RAILWAYLONDON SPECIAL: CROSSRAIL OPEN AT LAST!Plus: More space at Bank; new Piccadilly Line trainsFIRST LOOKNew ...

FREE CROSSRAIL SUPPLEMENT WESSEX LEADS THE WAY• Pandemic prompts more blockades• Longer line closures cut delaysHEART OF WALES HSTTourist service p...

EAST WEST RAIL FORGES AHEADOxford to Milton Keynes by 2025; will it ever be electrified?PLATFORM TO PARLIAMENTEx-railwayman MP Chris Loder: ‘We nee...

REALITY CHECK Why integrated rail plan might work WEST COAST INVESTMENT Euston and Crewe gear up for HS2 TRI-MODES FOR TRANSPENNINE? New locos so...

ARRIVA IN DECLINE? What has gone wrong and why TEAM PENNINE LAUNCHED First look at new name for Yorkshire Tiger SWITCH BADGE ON SHOW New name for...

SCANIA FENCER LAUNCHED PLUS: We examine 50 years of Scania integrals POWERING THROUGH COVID The Big Lemon’s ongoing expansion SWIFT MARKS ROE ANN...

ELECTRIC SALES SOAR … but new bus market falls 26% BUSES FESTIVAL New date and venue announced ON A ROLL Swiss impressed by Enviro500s NATIONAL ...

MUSEUMS SPECIAL Where to visit and what to see in 15 packed pages ANALYSIS £3bn bus strategy for England HYDROGEN FOR LIVERPOOL City region to bu...

LAST DIESEL LAUNCH? • Euro6 Wrightbus single-deck revealed • Zero-emission concept bus to follow EXTRA ENVIRO400EV Shorter electric for London FI...

FRANCHISE FIGHT Manchester operators step up protest over ‘expensive’ change ROUTE 65 Running day replaces Spring Gathering CHASERIDER REVIVED D&...

SEASIDE SUCCESS Ensign’s open-toppers cheer up COVID gloom NORTH OF ENGLAND Eight-page special feature VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE London simulator game p...

FIRST H2.0 ORDER Liverpool City Region chooses ADL hydrogen BUSES FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS All the action from the big show SMT DIAMOND DEBUT Lodekka ...

LEYLAND LEGEND New Year debut for restored Olympian coach SKY CLASS Transdev’s £5m high-spec investment THE SHUTTLE CRAZE The 1980s coaching boom...