October 2005
Rail 525: Cost and complexity create a high-level bias against rail
The latest restructuring of the railway has made it much easier to cut lines, stations and services - and harder ...
Is Wolmar On the Wrong Line?
On the Wrong Line Review RAIL’s Christian Wolmar frequently crossed swords with RICHARD BOWKER when he chaired the Strategic Rail ...
The Tories can change their spots
The Tories' transport policy has not exactly has not exactly set the world alight in recent years. Indeed, it seems ...
Rail 524: Franchises are complex, opaque and so very expensive
The ‘what is a franchise for?’ debate rages on as CHRISTIAN WOLMAR argues that today’s railway is costing the taxpayer ...
Helena Wojtczak: Railwaywomen, Exploitation, betrayal and triumph in the workpace
When Helena Wojtczak mentioned to a fellow railway researcher that she was writing a book about railwaywomen, he said she ...
The Government begins to take notice of the bus industry
The penny has begun to drop over buses. The recent statistics on public transport reported in the last issue of ...
Going Underground
Subterranean Railway Review There is a reproduction in this book of an 1868 etching by Gustave Doré, which illustrates beautifully ...
Zimmer Men, The trials and tribulations of the ageing cricketer
Marcus Berkmann, Zimmer Men, The trials and tribulations of the ageing cricketer, Little Brown, £16.99. Cricket is the most inexplicable ...
Labour puts transport into the “too hard” basket
What a dispiriting experience the Labour party conference is. It wasn't just that octanegerian long time Labour stalwart, Walter Wolfgang, ...