August 2006

It’s been a glorious August for the railways as terrorism fears have made airline travel a nightmare. But why, asks ...

One thing is sure as we approach the big Bank Holiday weekend. Today, tomorrow and especially during the weekend, thousands ...

It is, as Rail magazine put it wittily, the end of a GNera. The widely expected demise of the GNER ...

In his annual summer-term report on the pupils of Railway School, headmaster CHRISTIAN WOLMAR praises improved performance but finds there ...

Speed kills. It is as simple as that. For every 1 mph increase in speed, the number of accidents rise ...

There’s a delicious irony about a Labour government defending a privatised rail system which the Tories admit they got wrong ...

On the Wrong Line Review Christian Wolmar’s work on railways is well-known: he is a prolific journalist and author. He ...

Car Sick, solutions for our car-addicted culture, Lynn Sloman, Green Books, £10.95. Post war transport policy of both main political ...

Easter Island is the most remote place on the earth, 2500 miles from Santiago in Chile. The nearest other speck ...