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Rail 605: Rail companies face triple whammy with credit crunch and fares rises
It is a bit early in the year for Mystic Wolmar predictions but the railways are going to face a ...
Rail 604: Bank crisis has same roots as rail privatisation errors
While banks are collapsing with the same frequency as wickets normally fall in the England middle order, it is worth ...
Rail 603: Memo to ministers: the rail agenda
A memo from an unknown civil servant in the Department for Transport’s Rail Group has inadvertently found its way into ...
Rail 602: Kelly’s tenure leaves little trace
Transport secretaries are like shooting stars, flaring briefly in the sky and disappearing forever. Occasionally they leave behind a legacy, ...
Rail 601: Asking the Wolmar question again: what is franchising for?
It is some time since I posed the Wolmar Question, ‘what is franchising for?’ but recent events suggest the time ...
Rail 600: Beeching cannot be blamed for all the railway’s ills
The BBC is featuring a Beeching season this autumn, with a whole host of programmes kicked off by an assessment ...
Rail 599: Australia: how not to run a railway
The Australian railways offer an almost object lesson in how not to build and run a rail network. Indeed, the ...
Rail 598: Too many visits to the tuck shop again in the railway school
Another year has flown by, so it’s time again for this column to hold the Railway schoolchildren to account. And ...
Rail 597: Rail growth has slowed under privatisation
The Association of Train Operating Companies celebrated the opening of a new station in London, Mitcham Eastfields by issuing a ...
Rail 596: Industry could learn some French lessons
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the contrast between the way that the railways are viewed here and in Europe ...
Rail 595: John Prescott – an apology 10 years late
I owe you an apology. A sincere one. It is now a exactly a decade years since you published the ...
Rail 595: Tom Harris interview
The Tories left you with a slightly muddled legacy with the railways. How do you think you've coped in dealing ...
Rail 594: Who’s to say whether Network Rail is getting a bad deal?
There was an awful predictability about the response from Network Rail to the Office of Rail Regulation’s determination on the ...
Rail 593: Troubled times for the open access operators
Poor old Grand Central has been in the wars. The open access operator running between Sunderland and London has had ...
Rail 592: The crazy story of the £14m fine lost to the railways
If anything encapsulates the ridiculous way that the railway industry is structured and regulated, it is the decision by the ...
Rail 591: Ticket simplication is a myth
The simplification of the names for different types of tickets is a tiny step forward in bringing rationality into the ...
Rail 590: Rocky ride ahead as economy hits brakes
Bring out the bunting and organise the street parties. The railways are booming, with, again, record numbers of passengers, and ...
Rail 589: Why I remain sceptical of a second high speed line
Early last year, I wrote a column expressing doubts about the value of building a new north south high speed ...
Rail 588: Railway decision making must be devolved
The redoubling of the line between Swindon and Kemble should be one of those no-brainer schemes at the top of ...
Rail 587: Punishment time on the railways – but will it be effective?
It was Dostoyevsky week in the rail industry at the end of February when two companies, Network Rail and First ...
