November 2004

Subterranean Railway Review The London Underground needs a fortune spent on it. The Government doesn’t want to know but the ...

The media coverage of the Berkshire train crash was remarkably restrained. There have been few calls for radical improvements in ...

Subterranean Railway Review Few Londoners have a good word for the Underground. Every day something seems to go wrong — ...

Subterranean Railway Review Londoners are profoundly ambivalent about the Underground. We dislike it, we mistrust it, but we know we ...

Subterranean Railway Review Christian Wolmar is a Pullman among story tellers. It helps that he is personally involved – ‘when ...

There are probably more books about railways published in the UK each month than on any other subject. The trouble ...

Interesting things are afoot in the rail industry - both in terms of new projects and of experiments in new ...

Subterranean Railway Review Paris’s rattly underground system evokes affection (as in Louis Malle’s whimsical movie Zazie dans le Metro). The ...

Yet again, a weak point in the railways has been exposed in a terrible accident. In the 1990s, there was ...

Saturday’s rail disaster ended 30 month period during which no rail passengers were killed in accidents on Britain’s railways. That ...

Seven people have died after a high-speed train hit a car on an unmanned level crossing in Ufton Nervet, near ...

For once, this year’s Labour conference seems to have made a difference in policy. Usually, the gathering of the faithful ...

So the BBC has uncovered appalling breaches of safety in its investigative programme, Whistleblower. Sure, some of what it showed ...