July 2007

British governments have never understood the value of railways to society. The gist of yesterday's White Paper is that passengers, ...

I have been extremely busy with Metronet collapse and other writing, so have failed to blog for a few days ...

First Great Western’s problems have more to do with the structure of the group and the financial pressures it faces ...

Even by the standards of Britain's many rail fiascos, the implosion of Tube contractor Metronet is spectacular. Metronet announced this ...

It is not often that journalists can claim that they were 100 per cent right, but the imminent collapse of ...

I have just spent a couple of days in Aylesbury, one of the Cycling Demonstration Towns sponsored by Cycling England ...

THE East Coast Main Line, the principal rail route linking Yorkshire to the rest of the country, is becoming full ...

Britain’s railways are booming. Passengers numbers have gone up by 40 per cent in the past ten year, and there ...

Great article by Carole Sarler in today’s Observer. People in her street in Haringey are being consulted over how to ...

One of the first tasks in our new Prime Minister’s in-tray, CHRISTIAN WOLMAR believes, could be to defuse a crisis ...

‘Britain under siege’ suggests the tabloids after three bomb incidents over the space of 72 hours. A Labour baroness, on ...

The recent allocation of franchises on the basis of very tight optimistic projections on revenue and passenger numbers begs the ...

Transport has largely been kept out of the news since Stephen Byers’ tenure as Transport Secretary ended five years ago ...