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Gareth Dennis

The Reframing of Beeching’s Legacy

GARETH DENNIS picks through the pages of Beeching’s infamous Reshaping report to reconsider its legacy.

23 min readMar 10, 2023

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The Reframing of Beeching’s Legacy

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Why low rail adhesion still presents a high risk

The Salisbury rail crash resulted from slipping wheels, but why is this still a problem on today’s railway, and what can be done about it…

5 min readApr 7, 2022

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Why low rail adhesion still presents a high risk

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Gareth Dennis

Do earthworks fail if trees are removed?

The claim that the removal of trees makes earthwork failure more likely is often made by those opposing tree clearance adjacent to the…

7 min readApr 7, 2022

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Do earthworks fail if trees are removed?

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Why aren’t UK hydrogen trains carrying passengers yet?

The race to bring a hydrogen train to the UK market has slowed to a crawl for the same reason blocking conventional electrification: a lack…

8 min readNov 10, 2021

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Why aren’t UK hydrogen trains carrying passengers yet?

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When it comes to driverless trains, the numbers don’t add up

As part of their latest emergency funding settlement, Transport for London is being pressured into making driverless Tube trains a reality…

7 min readNov 10, 2021

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When it comes to driverless trains, the numbers don’t add up

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The not-so-glamourous origins of standard track gauge

The source of the now familiar 4 foot 8½ inches dimension is often attributed to Romans, wheel ruts and horse’s bottoms, but the real story…

8 min readNov 10, 2021

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The not-so-glamourous origins of standard track gauge

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Scottish Greens “go Forth” with bold vision for rail north of the border

GARETH DENNIS interrogates the Scottish Greens’ new “Rail for All” report to see if it holds up to scrutiny…

7 min readMar 17, 2021

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Scottish Greens “go Forth” with bold vision for rail north of the border

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Split over HS2 exposes deeper schism within Green Party

Can the party ever move beyond its various legacies and internally competing ideologies?

5 min readFeb 11, 2021

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Split over HS2 exposes deeper schism within Green Party

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Is Cambridgeshire’s New Metro All It’s Cracked Up to Be?

If it isn’t autonomous, and it isn’t a metro system, then what exactly is the Cambridgeshire Autonomous Metro? GARETH DENNIS takes a look…

8 min readJan 12, 2021

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Is Cambridgeshire’s New Metro All It’s Cracked Up to Be?

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Has the government just renationalised Britain’s railways?

March 2020 will mark the beginning of the end of franchised railway operations in Britain. GARETH DENNIS lays out his thoughts.

4 min readDec 31, 2020

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Has the government just renationalised Britain’s railways?

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Gareth Dennis

Gareth Dennis

Rail engineer and writer. Hosts #RailNatter. Lecturer at PWI/BCRRE. Co-founder of Campaign for Level Boarding. Chair of NEREF. He/him.

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