There is something deeply unsatisfying about Eurostar. I think the performance of the management is complacent rather than dynamic, and this is shown up in various ways. Take, just as a small example, the computer facilities in the Paris business lounge. They have been out of order or only in restricted use for well over [...]
Archive of August, 2008
The Australian railways offer an almost object lesson in how not to build and run a rail network. Indeed, the very notion of network is problematic there since disputes between 19th century engineers led to no fewer than trains using 22 gauges being developed and even today nine are still in use.
I was in New [...]
Aug
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Ryanrailways
I am off, again, on the Eurostar train today to go to Italy via an overnight to Firenze. It is more expensive than Ryanair but far more pleasant and a part of the holiday itself, which can never be said about a journey that starts in Stansted.
Indeed, one of the advantages that the railways have [...]
Another year has flown by, so it’s time again for this column to hold the Railway schoolchildren to account. And a momentous year it has been, with lots of misbehaviour and, as we shall see, yet again far too many visits to the tuck shop.
Indeed, that is the theme of the year, the seemingly insatiable [...]
Perhaps it was inevitable that Boris Johnson would mark his first 100 days as Mayor today by issuing a list of his achievements. Never mind that it is impossible to have much of an impact on a huge city like London in such a short period, [...]
Back in the UK after the long haul nightmare, it was refreshing to find an article about research rigorously debunking the myth of the bicycle bomb. This is important because cycles seem to be an easy target for the security Taliban who are wont to ban bikes from all sorts of places, such as station [...]