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Rail 622: National Express on fast track to oblivion
When Douglas Alexander was transport secretary and Sea Containers abandoned its GNER contract, he told me that the occasional failure ...
Rail 621: Obstacles in the paths of high speed users
The opening of the high speed line for Kent domestic services is a fascinating reversal of what usually has happened ...
Rail 620: Virgin spat with Network Rail bad for the railways
The bosses at Virgin trains are angry. No, correct that, they are incandescent. They have had enough of Network Rail ...
Rail 619 extra: Andy Trotter, the thinking man’s copper
Andy Trotter is an unusual policeman. You only have to hear him talking about something he has read in The ...
Rail 619: Lemming-like operators set to jump off cliff
It is difficult at the moment not to liken the train operators to lemmings hurtling off the edge of the ...
Rail 618: Could freight line be an alternative to HS2?
I have been taken to task by various readers for my piece on high speed rail two issues ago which ...
Rail extra: Tim O’Toole, the Underground’s unlikely hero
Tim O'Toole was by no means an obvious choice for the job of running London Underground but he proved to ...
Rail 617: Can rail projects survive the recession?
Watching Alastair Darling sound the death knell for New Labour in his Budget speech, it struck me that never before ...
Rail 616: The questions about high speed rail line
Call me perverse, but all-party agreements make me smell a king-size rodent. Now that Labour has signed belatedly up to ...
Rail 615: Europe shows the way on stations
Having spent three days chairing the rail conference at the Passenger Terminal Expo 2009 at the Excel centre - the ...
Rail 614: Scottish railway plans are ambitious but at risk
Scotland is a very different country when it comes to thinking on transport. We are always hearing reports of line ...
Rail Extra (613): Tim O’Toole will be missed
When I first met Tim O'Toole, soon after he was appointed to head London Underground, he was deeply ensconced in ...
Rail 613: Franchising structure in question – again
For a long time the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC) has tried to keep a lid on the debate ...
Rail 612: Tories caught between rock and hard place
Remember the Tories. They used to run the country under an iron lady by the name of Thatcher and a ...
Rail 611: Red tape stymies railway initiative
If you were ever in any doubt that the way we run our railway system is nothing short of insane, ...
Rail 610: High speed rail still a long way off
Gosh, how things can change so quickly. Rail policy requires long term strategic thinking and the commitment of governments to ...
Rail 609: 2009 will be key year for the railways
There is no doubt that 2009 will be the most difficult year for the railways since privatisation. For the first ...
Rail 608: The franchising question remains unanswered
In 2009, it will be difficult to get away from issues that go to the heart of the way that ...
Rail 607: Trusting Network Rail is hard to do
I wish I believed in Network Rail. By that I mean, I wish I had confidence in the structure, in ...
Rail 606: Tories must choose between cuts and expansion
Although the Tories’ lead in the opinion polls is faltering, it is still worth examining their transport policies since it ...
