November 2004
Gravy train that’s run for 100 years
Subterranean Railway Review The London Underground needs a fortune spent on it. The Government doesn’t want to know but the ...
Rail 501: Highway chiefs shirk duties where roads meet rail
The media coverage of the Berkshire train crash was remarkably restrained. There have been few calls for radical improvements in ...
Tunnel Vision
Subterranean Railway Review Few Londoners have a good word for the Underground. Every day something seems to go wrong — ...
140 years of hell on the Tube
Subterranean Railway Review Londoners are profoundly ambivalent about the Underground. We dislike it, we mistrust it, but we know we ...
Profit Made The Trains Run On Time
Subterranean Railway Review Christian Wolmar is a Pullman among story tellers. It helps that he is personally involved – ‘when ...
Metro Subterranean Railway Review
There are probably more books about railways published in the UK each month than on any other subject. The trouble ...
Rail 500: Why London deserves the lion’s share of rail capital
Interesting things are afoot in the rail industry - both in terms of new projects and of experiments in new ...
Buff’s Guide to a rickety ride
Subterranean Railway Review Paris’s rattly underground system evokes affection (as in Louis Malle’s whimsical movie Zazie dans le Metro). The ...
Level crossings are a danger to safety
Yet again, a weak point in the railways has been exposed in a terrible accident. In the 1990s, there was ...
Rail still has a good safety record despite Berkshire
Saturday’s rail disaster ended 30 month period during which no rail passengers were killed in accidents on Britain’s railways. That ...
Q&A: Berkshire Train Crash
Seven people have died after a high-speed train hit a car on an unmanned level crossing in Ufton Nervet, near ...
Labour activists vote to retain council housing
For once, this year’s Labour conference seems to have made a difference in policy. Usually, the gathering of the faithful ...
Whistleblower on the railways
So the BBC has uncovered appalling breaches of safety in its investigative programme, Whistleblower. Sure, some of what it showed ...