April 2006
Rail 538: Sir Humphrey’s flounderings will mean a wider role for NR
The Rail Review has given civil servants the whip-hand in determining the way our railway is run - but, claims ...
CTRL’s engineering success blighted by financial failures
The project to build the Channel Tunnel Rail Link has enjoyed mixed fortunes and could be termed as either a ...
Own up Tony – you don’t give a stuff about the environment
The Labour government’s record on mitigating the environmental damage caused by transport has been lamentable and is getting worse. That ...
Rail 537: How the railway has gone from dynamic to dysfunctional
Three current controversies demonstrate how the privatised railway is far less flexible and adaptable to change than BR was, CHRISTIAN ...
Strategic thinking needed for the railways
Governments of both hues have shied away from the fundamental question about the railways. What, in the 21st century, when ...
DfT should carry can on security
There is a big kerfuffle in London over the staffing of stations, with the Evening Standard attacking the train companies ...
Guardian obituary Robin Rackham
The aviation world is governed by an omerta which its members break at their peril. Robin Rackham, who has died ...
DVD review: how london’s transport changed from the 1950s to the 1960s
The fantastic thing about this selection of three films is the discovery of just how much changed in the decade ...
PPP – a costly mistake
Le Rail is a French magazine. The article was translated into French for publication. The controversial £30bn Public Private Partnership ...
Please learn from our mistakes
One of the really dispiriting things about the politics of transport is the failure of other countries to learn from ...