November 2010

Peter Preston, a normally utterly impenetrable Guardian columnist, for once makes a good point in today's paper  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/nov/28/travelling-by-train-first-class.  Writing about ...

Its a bit late in the day but I have been in Omagh and Alton today, and many points in ...

  The predictions that the Comprehensive Spending Review would be a disaster for the rail industry proved unfounded.  Sure, there ...

An open letter to Sir Roy McNulty Dear Sir Roy, I am writing to suggest that contrary to the view ...

Technological leaps in transport have led to countless fantasies – self-driving cars, pods on rails and even mini-helicopters – most ...

The fascinating discussion at last night's Institute of Railway Operators meeting focussed largely on the McNulty review and what is ...

Travelling around America by rail for the past two weeks to research my new book on US railways has given ...

Rail 656   Back in 1995, I had a conversation with Bob Horton, the first chairman of Railtrack which seems ...

  The nature of war changed radically in the 19th century. Conflicts became longer, they were waged over far greater ...

I am now in Baltimore, which I rather like, except  that as with all these big American cities, it is ...