Rail 980: HS2 on the brink
Euston is currently a disaster zone – in every sense. I admit this is a subjective view as I live ...
HS2 going anywhere?
The suggestion that HS2 could end permanently at Old Oak Common was an idea born of desperation. Although Jeremy Hunt, ...
Letter to The Times: Labour should question HS2
Sir. That HS2 has become a money pit pretending to be a job creation scheme was always predictable. The problem ...
Rail 979: Could a Cyber attack stop Britain’s railways?
Never let the facts get in the way of a good story. That’s an old adage of some tabloid newspapers ...
Rail 978: Labour’s plans for the railways are…
Masked by Keir Starmer’s speech setting out his plans for a Labour government, on the same day there was a ...
Rail 977: Sandwich joke masks thin gruel
Perhaps it shouldn’t matter. Mark Harper, in his keynote speech, went for that old trope of mentioning British Rail sandwiches ...
Rail 976: Eurostar contradictions
We live in strange, indeed confusing times. In the wider political economy, we have a Chancellor of the Exchequer who ...
Rail 975: The secret negotiations over rail reform
So what is happening in the Department for Transport while the railways steadily fall apart before our eyes to the ...
Rail 974: Optimism hard to find; and rail’s big man
Of necessity, a New Year requires a modicum of optimism. Having done 50 or more media interviews over the past ...
Rail 973: Rail’s annus horribilis
This year, to borrow a timely term from our late Queen, has been the annus horribilis for the railways. Just ...
