September 2007

When Ken Livingstone signed a three-year pay deal with the rail unions in February, Londoners breathed a sigh of relief, ...

Industrial relations on the railways have soured noticeably with strikes on the London Underground, and ‘One’, as well as several ...

You don't have to be an "anorak" to appreciate Christian Wolmar's new history of the railways in Britain. In fact, ...

I can't resist another quick 'I told you so'. Alistair Darling was a terrible Transport Secretary and I always thought ...

If there were ever a poisoned chalice in government, it must be the portfolio as minister in charge of the ...

The railways are booming. More people are using them than at any time in their history and the huge growth, ...

Michael Binyon powers through a rollicking new history of the British railway system, while Stephen McClarence makes tracks around the ...

Normally, I wince when people say 'you have to take the politics out' of a particular issue. Political debate and ...

I have to travel to San Francisco for a family funeral. I am going for what is an extended weekend ...

It's been a month since I blogged, but what with the holidays and absolutely frantic work thereafter, I thought I ...

Conventional wisdom has it that European railways receive far more subsidy than ours, and that’s why their passengers pay less ...

The arrival of high speed trains in London on November 14 should be a cause for unalloyed celebration. Not only ...

Many people already recognise that schools are too obsessed with testing and exams rather than education. But it is not ...

From the age of five, I was allowed to spend entire days hanging around Darlington station, with a packed lunch, ...

Governments have always failed the railways. The recent White Paper on the railways is just the latest example in a ...