March 2011

Train travel  is becoming more of a hassle almost daily and much of it is down to the way that ...

The business plan for Transport for London due to be approved tomorrow is a brilliant piece of magic. It manages ...

In what conceivable way can the Budget be deemed to be Green? While motorists have seen costs rise recently, they ...

Nothing is ever simple on the railways. In most other industries,  the requirement for new equipment, leads, in a straightforward ...

As  expected, the Office of Rail Regulation has decided to drop its prosecution against Jarvis over the Potters Bar accident ...

This is a rant, but only in the rail industry could you get a helpline that, well, can't help you ...

With the crisis in the Middle East and nuclear power now set to become politically unacceptable, rational governments across the ...

When  the first line between London and Birmingham  was  being  mooted  in the 1830s,  a Berkhamsted landowner, Sir Astley  Cooper, ...

The franchise merry go round is starting again with the ridiculous short contract for East Anglia, and the longer term ...

Just a quick early morning rant. Cycling down to Trafalgar Square yesterday, I encountered no fewer than two sets of ...

I am no expert on train procurement, so I hesitate to write too much about the new deal for Hitachi ...

I missed the regulator's press conference as I was filming for Tyne Tees but the two press releases issued today ...