Rail Magazine
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.
Rail 586: St Pancras mystery deepens
The plot thickens around the waste of space at St Pancras (see Rail 584) and I am now even more ...
Rail 585: Rolling stock strategy is playing at capitalism, again
The rolling stock plan slipped out by the Department for Transport without any briefing or press conference at the end ...
Rail 584: St Pancras spoilt by security Taliban
Having travelled through St Pancras International several times since its opening November, I realise that the fulsome praise given to ...
Rail 583: Network Rail: New year, same old problems for the railway
What a terrible start to the year for the railways! It is difficult to know where to begin as the ...
Rail 582: Bridge bashes could lead to big disaster
Probably the most irritating delays on the railways are those caused by a bridge bash. I was on a Kings ...
Rail 581: Ministers fail to understand real value of the railways
The year 2007 should have gone down in history as epoch making, a break with the past offering a new ...
Rail 580: Barriers could prove counterproductive
Passing through Surbiton station during the evening peak the other day, I was surprised to find the barriers open and ...
Rail 579: Who is going to use the new high speed line?
In the run up to the opening of High Speed One, there was a flurry of interest about Deutsche Bahn ...
Rail 578: France should avoid PPP complexity
Off to Marseille, a fascinating city which seems little changed from the scenes in the 1971 classic The French Connection ...
Rail 577: Crossrail: still lots of questions to answer
There should be non-elections more often. Thanks to the hype about an early election, the government bounced itself into an ...
Rail 576: Fares policy conspicuous by its absence
I’ve never liked Which? magazine. It’s always seemed like a magazine that pretends to make choice simpler but ends up making ...
Rail 575: Rail covers all angles to boost safety
It is easy to forget just how assiduously the industry pursues the quest for an ever safer railway. This everlasting ...
Rail 574: Unions should play a cannier game
Industrial relations on the railways have soured noticeably with strikes on the London Underground, and ‘One’, as well as several ...
Rail 573: Government hides the true cost of the railways
Conventional wisdom has it that European railways receive far more subsidy than ours, and that’s why their passengers pay less ...
Rail 572: Another year of “could do better” in the railway school
It’s that time of year folks, when the railway school headmaster sends out his end of year report to all ...
Rail 571: Government tries to wish rail growth away
Pity the poor rail passenger. The big idea behind the Rail White Paper was not a major new high speed ...
Rail 570: First milks Great Western ‘cash cow’
First Great Western’s problems have more to do with the structure of the group and the financial pressures it faces ...
Rail 569: Brown may live to regret Tube PPP scandal
One of the first tasks in our new Prime Minister’s in-tray, CHRISTIAN WOLMAR believes, could be to defuse a crisis ...
Rail 568: Green challenge for railways is complex and could be costly
The rail industry is finally waking up to the environmental impact of train travel. For so long the industry had ...
Rail 567: The woes of railway websites
Breaking his usual ‘norants’ rule, a frustrated CHRISTIAN WOLMAR pleads for a singleon line ticket-booking agency for the whole network ...
