December 2010
Rail 660: McNulty misses the target
In amongst all the news about snow chaos, high speed lines and refranchising plans, the interim report by Sir Roy ...
More weather again
The railways have been doing rather well recently - with the odd exception like the overhead wires coming down on ...
High speed evidence is flimsy
I love railways. It was only the discovery of girls that lured me away from hanging around on station ...
Cutting transport carbon is a big ask
The transport industry is at the heart of economic activity but its heavy use of carbon has put the ...
Rail 659: will cross party agreement on investment hold
Philip Hammond’s announcement on rolling stock plans which confirming new trains for Thameslink and Crossrail, together with electrification for the ...
The political road
There is a very long and expensive road scheme that has escaped the cuts. And, indeed, any virtually any attention ...
Cycle hire is a public service
The biggest cycle hire docking station opened today at Waterloo, with 126 spaces. It will presumably be used by lots ...
Resignation ridicule
So farewell Stewart Stephenson, a man few people had heard of until it snowed and he found himself, as transport ...
The longest little railway
Porthmadog on the North Wales Coast is about to achieve a world first, having no fewer than three narrow gauge ...
The Irish ghost road
Two weeks ago I went to Ireland to speak at a meeting against what seemed like a crazy road scheme, ...
Rail 658: The cost of a simple chord
There is widespread consensus within both the industry and political circles that the excessive cost of the rail industry is ...
Book review: Paul Atterbury, Life Along the Line
Paul Atterbury, Life Along the Line, David & Charles, 256pp There are stunning pictures in this large coffee table ...
Weather again
I've done a couple of interviews on transport chaos caused by the freezing conditions and taken the line that as ...