Engineering Focus

A series of railway network maps are now available on Redbubble. The stylised maps have been designed to fit perfectly on mugs, but also work well on a variety of other media such as t-shirts and prints. The collection so far includes the Merseyrail network, West Coast Main Line and Great Wester Railway, but I will be adding to the collection over the coming weeks and months. If you'd like to suggest a network map then let me know in the comments below. Don't see anything that takes your fancy? Let me know in the comments or e-mail Info@EngineeringFocus.co.uk and I'll consider making one of your choosing. New designs will be added, so keep checking back to see if there's the one you want. Railway maps on Redbble CrossCountry Great Western Railway West Coast Mainline   Merseyrail Network

This is article was originally published in Rail Magazine in 2019. In 2012 the Department for Transport published its high-level output specification (HLOS) for control period 5 (CP5), covering the period from April 2014 to March 2019. The 5 year, £38bn plan promised to deliver 1,360 route km of electrification by 2019, and to transform rail travel across the length and breadth of the country. 4 months prior to the start of CP5 Rail magazine published a map created by Engineering Focus, which highlighted many of the schemes which were promised to be completed by 2019. Now that CP5 has come to an end and CP6 has begun, it is a good time to see what has been achieved, which schemes were postponed, which were cancelled and which schemes are behind schedule. As work got underway at the start of 2014 passengers were reassured that any disruption between 2014 and 2019 would pay off, as new services, new trains and quicker journeys would be delivered once the work had been completed. Unfort...