Rail Magazine

It’s the railways’ hidden story. While rail is indeed the safest form of travel, every year they still result in ...

Martin Griffiths and his colleagues at Stagecoach need have no fear. As I mentioned a few weeks ago (Rail 754) ...

There is something rather troubling about standing at a platform and seeing a train indicator suggest a conflicting movement. For ...

Mystic Wolmar is normally dormant at this time of the year but here is a surefire prediction: the rail fares ...

Here’s an irony. Just as Scotland is voting to break off from England with the possibility of needing a a ...

On entering the reception area of the airy new offices of Network Rail in King’s Cross, one is confronted with ...

One of the great disappointments of rail privatisation is that it has never delivered the transparency of the economics of ...

Ah politicians! Don’t you just love ‘em. Politics is such a fun game replete with hypocrites, tricksters and fools ( ...

While the Department for Transport may be relieved that it has managed to get the Thameslink etc management contract away ...

I pass the site of the Ladbroke Grove train crash frequently on my cycle ride to watch QPR and every ...

The Channel Tunnel’s 20th anniversary on May 6 received scant attention. There was barely anything in the British press and ...

  Ed Milliband is all a dither over the rail franchising system. In a letter to The Observer published on ...

So all is rosy in the rail garden. That is certainly the message in the Office of Rail Regulation’s report ...

  The only ministerial decision for which Michael Portillo is remembered is the reprieve he gave to the Settle-Carlisle railway ...

It was expected that Sir David Higgins, who has moved from Network Rail to the chairmanship of HS2 Ltd would ...

It is not often that the railways are mentioned at Prime Minister’s Questions but on March 5th they came up ...

Merseyrail topped the recent Which? report poll on train companies, something that it has done regularly as it also was ...

So what is the Rail Delivery Group? Since writing a few issues ago about this somewhat mysterious outfit (Rail 734), ...

  Rail passengers suffer from having too little of the wrong sort of information and not enough of the right ...

This will be a make or break year for HS2. If there is good progress in  the committee stage of ...