March 2008
Rail 588: Railway decision making must be devolved
The redoubling of the line between Swindon and Kemble should be one of those no-brainer schemes at the top of ...
Why our railways keep on failing passengers
THIS was supposed to be the weekend that Network Rail made up for its disastrous performance of Christmas. Instead, once ...
Dutch thoughts part three
Staying in a small town 10 kms from Groningen, I borrowed my host's bike and rode in to town to ...
Transport fails to ignite mayoral debate
Transport should be the biggest issue in the mayoral election. Not only is it an issue that affects every Londoner ...
Rail 587: Punishment time on the railways – but will it be effective?
It was Dostoyevsky week in the rail industry at the end of February when two companies, Network Rail and First ...
Dutch trip thoughts part one
I am in Holland for a ten day speaking tour to local groups of the Anglo-Dutch friendship society and I ...
Rail 586: St Pancras mystery deepens
The plot thickens around the waste of space at St Pancras (see Rail 584) and I am now even more ...
The madness of micromanagement
One of the great ironies of rail privatisation is that the rail industry is under far stricter control from outside ...
Looking for Labour’s transport policy
Detecting a coherent pattern in the current government’s transport policy is rather like trying to find a free parking space ...
Xmas chaos highlights flaws in rail structure
Nothing characterises the flawed structure of the rail industry better than the jaunt to Buckingham Palace by the chairman of ...
The best railway books
The literature of railways is more crowded than a morning commuter train into Waterloo. There are more than 25,000 titles ...