January 2009
Rail 610: High speed rail still a long way off
Gosh, how things can change so quickly. Rail policy requires long term strategic thinking and the commitment of governments to ...
The begging bowl beckons
There is a massive game of poker going on between the train operators and the government and so far neither ...
Its a tough ask for the rail companies to sell more tickets while hiking fares
Yesterday’s meeting between the train operators and transport ministers was the first in what is set to be an elaborate ...
High speed rail’s tenuous connection to Heathrow
Lord Adonis rather lets the cat out of his bag by accepting that a High Speed rail connection to Heathrow ...
Fares rises show lack of clear strategy on railways
Every January, the new year opens with bad news about the railways. The rise in fares which are imposed ...
Heathrow madness
The decision to go ahead with the third runway at Heathrow makes no sense on any criterion. The business case ...
Book review: how slow food is growing fast
Geoff Andrews, The Slow Food Story, Pluto Press, £14 99. It all started with a bad meal in an ...
Letter from India: Is the slow way necessarily the wrong way?
The most remarkable aspect of my trip to India is not that the country has been transformed by massive economic ...
Two weeks is a short time on the railways
I've been away in India for the past two weeks, where news of Britain is rare and newspapers rarer. And ...
Trouble ahead for operators
Christian Wolmar The railways are going to be in the news this year. That’s not just because of their awful ...
Franchise trouble for operators…and ministers
With over 130,000 joining the dole queue in December alone, it is not a matter of whether the train ...
Rail 609: 2009 will be key year for the railways
There is no doubt that 2009 will be the most difficult year for the railways since privatisation. For the first ...
Fares rises anger commuters
Moans about rail fares rises always greet the New Year. But commuters paying the new fares for the first time ...