March 2006
Rail 536: Darling: damning the high-speed line with faint praise?
Transport Secretary Alistair Darling’s warm words about a North- South high-speed rail link are far from a ringing endorsement of ...
Heathrow alternation plan is not cricket
Beware the press release slipped out on a Friday. The Department for Transport is often guilty of this attempt to ...
Rail 535: CTRL: an outrageous saga of arrogance and incompetence
The decision by the Office of National Statistics that the CTRL should be included on the government’s books has exposed ...
High speed rail to face axe?
The prospect of Britain getting high-speed TGV-style trains like France and Germany will be killed off this week by the ...
Deregulation means trains will be only for the well off, subsidies slashed so savers suffer
The pressure is on for the Department for Transport to cut the subsidy going to the railways. It amounts to ...
Is closing the Tube really necessary
It is the first stage of the most ambitious engineering programme on the Tube, involving modernisation of track, signalling and ...
Rail Horizons On the Wrong Line Review
Published by Aurum Press (2005), ‘On the Wrong Line’ by long term journalist and rail commentator Christian Wolmar gives a ...
Road pricing: can we avoid a political pile-up?
Transport expert Christian Wolmar looks at the implications of road pricing schemes for local authorities. The London congestion charge is ...
Rail 534: Defence of privatisation decadcade disregards the downsides
It’s ten years since the handful of passengers on the 0510 Twickenham-Waterloo unknowingly made history as the pioneers of rail ...
Letter from India
In the hotel in Goa where I have just spent two weeks, the local newspaper was delivered every morning to ...