Rail magazine 2005
Christian Wolmar has been writing a fortnightly column for RAIL magazine since September 1995 and this archive has columns stretching back to 2000. Future RAIL columns will go online a few days after publication.
RAIL magazine is Britain's biggest-selling modern railways magazine, giving comprehensive news coverage for the industry. Over 25,000 copies are sold every fortnight.
#529 - December 21: Level Crossing Tragedy was a Disaster Waiting to Happen
#528 - December 7: Save the Sleeper Campaign
#527 - November 23: Network Rail begins to take over the railway
#526 - November 9: Railway’s little Britons should stop preaching to Europe
#525 - October 26: Cost and complexity create a high-level bias against rail
#524 - October 12: Franchises are complex, opaque and so very expensive
#523 - September 28: The good, the bad and the ugly in a decade of upheaval
#522 - September 14: Say hello to HLOS - still a crazy way to run a railway
#521 - August 31: Rail ultra-lite! A powerful case for self-powered trams
#520 - August 20: Railway School pupils make too many trips to tuck shop
#519 - August 3: Station clock strikes midnight for railway’s Cinderellas
#518 - July 20: London pride as staff and commuters defy the fanatics
#517 - July 6: ATOC has shot itself in both feet with peak-pricing plan
#516 - June 22: The spectre of cuts by stealth is stalking the railway
#515 - June 8: Going back to go forwards: relearning about integration
#514 - May 25: Darling: the devil we know, but a ditherer on decisions
#513 - May 11: The battle for the future of the UK’s railway starts now
#512 - April 27: Yes, minister: Integrate to ease Kent planning ‘blight’
#511 - April 13: Rail: the great unmentionable of the general election
#510 - March 30: Tram schemes deserve protection against predatory buses
#509 - March 16: Mitchell in charge: the axeman cometh to Marsham Street
#508 - March 2: £100m trains fiasco just a footnote in a sorry scandal
#507 - February 16: The journey from SRA to Sir Humphrey may not be seamless
#506 - February 2: Pretence of a ‘private’ NR costs rail industry dear
#505 - January 19: It’s busy routes not just the branches in the firing line
#504 - January 5: South East rail rows show ministers’ failure on capacity
