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The future of rail travel is digital
28 June 2021
By Duncan Henry, Retail Strategy Director, Rail Delivery Group
The recently published Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail rightly calls for a customer-focu…
Celebrating our engineering heroes
23 June 2021
A blog for International Women in Engineering Day 2021
Britain’s rail network is the iron backbone running across the country that helps to connect u…
Q&A for International Women in Engineering Day 2021
23 June 2021
With Susie Homan, our Director of People, Operations and Railway Strategy
For this year’s International Women in Engineering Day, we interviewed Susi…
Cutting duty on planes mustn’t put people off cleaner, green trains
16 June 2021
By Andy Bagnall, Director General, Rail Delivery Group
As lockdown restrictions have eased, we’ve seen the corresponding resumption of journeys acros…
The white paper signals much-needed change for the industry. To deliver to its full potential, we must now get the detail right.
20 May 2021
By Andy Bagnall, Director General of the RDG
After three years, two different Secretaries of State and one global pandemic, the government’s ‘Plan fo…
What do the mayoral election results mean for the rail industry?
13 May 2021
By Robert Nisbet, Director of Nations and Regions
For all the idiosyncrasies on display in British local elections, the Covid-19 pandemic provided on…
Big Conversations podcast
06 May 2021
RDG's six-part podcast series that asks the question: how can we reconnect Britain?
What are the big themes around how Britain will build back post p…
Big Conversations: Is rail ready for reform?
05 May 2021
By Jacqueline Starr, CEO of Rail Delivery Group and Andy Bagnall, Director General, Rail Delivery Group
This week we both joined Robert Nisbet, our D…
The future of rail freight - the green way to move goods and level up the economy
28 April 2021
By John Thomas, Director of Policy
For a government committed to net zero carbon and levelling up every region of the UK, rail freight is good news a…
Lifelines: how train operators and Women’s Aid came together to save lives
26 April 2021
By Andy Bagnall, Director General, Rail Delivery Group
Rail is many things – a link to get to work or a day out, a connection to loved ones, a route…
The future of stations
21 April 2021
By Lucy Harper, Policy Manager
Green stations can lead the way for local communities and economies in the recovery from the pandemic.
Today, we launc…