October 2007

The response published yesterday by the Department to the Stern and Eddington reports was hyped up by the Financial Times ...

When I was in Paris last week, I picked up the freesheet paper on the Metro and buried in the ...

Today, the railways today are an important part of our infrastructure but rather tucked away out of sight and often ...

There should be non-elections more often. Thanks to the hype about an early election, the government bounced itself into an ...

Flawed characters are always the most interesting. If fate had been kinder, George Hudson would have been remembered by his ...

Now that Big Gordon is assured of the Premiership, unless he falls under that proverbial bus, it is worth reflecting ...

My partner Deborah and I are going to Wales this weekend from London and I really really really tried to ...

Traditionally, railway mangers have always had an uneasy relationship with new technology. Because the rail network is so extensive and, ...

The Daily Telegraph is reporting that plans for a national road charging scheme are being quietly buried or 'back burnered' ...

Two kinds of history are especially difficult to write. There are those whose subjects have almost no source material (biographies ...

I’ve never liked Which? magazine. It’s always seemed like a magazine that pretends to make choice simpler but ends up making ...

Railways in the 19th century had the transformative effect that the automobile would have in the 20th, and Christian Wolmar ...

Has our great train network gone off track? CAPITALIST free market buccaneers of the 19th cen­tury would have blushed at ...

Our leading writer and commentator on the railways is Christian Wolmar. He is perfectly normal, you understand ("My trainspotting days ...

So we have Crossrail at last. It may be somewhat the wrong scheme, not going to the right places - ...

Transport affects virtually everyone every day yet never figures in elections. Even the amazingly contentious issue of rail privatisation barely ...

It is easy to forget just how assiduously the industry pursues the quest for an ever safer railway. This everlasting ...

This new history of Britain¹s railways comes from the prolific pen of the nation¹s most passionate and well-known advocate of ...

DID you know that, between the wars, the drivers of the LNER’s crack express trains had little slots on the ...

The publicity says that St Pancras is the new ‘destination station’. And for once, the PR is not exaggerating or ...