April 2007

One of the reasons that the railways, even in their heyday, struggled to make ends meet was that they were ...

It sounded jolly good when Network Rail announced in its 2007 Business Plan, published in early April, that there would ...

Jogging on Hampstead Heath on Maundy Thursday was a delight. There were hardly any people despite the strong sun which, ...

The opening, in June, of the TGV Est, France’s fourth high-speed line, will bring a sad casualty in its wake: ...

Those clever French certainly pulled a fast one this week. While Network Rail was boasting about spending billions on lengthening ...

Will Gordon Brown be good for transport? The signs are mixed. It was Brown who insisted on the Public Private ...

The £4m fine plus £225,000 costs imposed on Network Rail received rather less attention in the press than it would ...

There is no doubt that climate change is now a permanent fixture of the political agenda. There will not be ...