Rail 873: A small step towards sorting out the fares
It is one of the great ironies of rail privatisation that it was supposed to free...
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Book review: Monisha Rajesh, Around the world in 80 trains
Monisha Rajesh wrote lovingly about the Indian railways in her previous book but this set her... -
Rail 872: The North needs rail investment
One of the few (only?) good ideas from George Osborne when he was Chancellor was the... -
Driverless cars and dead bodies
Technology is the new religion. Because of the transformation from an analog to a digital world... -
Letter to The Times on Driverless cars
It is unclear where the push for driverless cars (News, Feb 6) is coming from. There... -
Rail 871: The Crossrail mystery – and how the USA does not understand rail
The awful year in 2018 endured by the railways might have been leavened somewhat had Crossrail... -
India’s love hate relationship with the railways
Nowhere other than India is the railway so indelibly connected with the image of the nation.... -
EU membership does not preclude rail renationalisation
Of the Tory privatisations visited upon the UK in recent decades,... -
Rail 870: My letter to Keith Williams on what Rail Review should examine
Dear Keith, I wish you lots of luck in your endeavour to sort out Britain’s... -
My speech on driverless cars at the Transportation Research Board, Washington DC, 15/1/19
There is something extraordinary happening out there in relation to driverless cars. But it is not... -
Rail 869: The railway’s annus horribilis
This has been the railway’s annus horribilis. Nothing may have burnt down but almost everything else... -
Rail 868: Wrong trees off the line
Sometimes good results come out of bad decisions. When the now departed Jo ‘Hydrogen’ Johnson announced... -
The most radical transport authority
The City of London has become by far the most radical local authority in Britain.... -
Terry Morgan is not the problem for HS2
The defenestration of Sir Terry Morgan, the chairman of HS2, has been as painfully slow as... -
Rail 867: The truth behind rail’s growth
The doubling of rail passengers since the mid 1990s has been unprecedented and, in many respects,...
