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Rail 546: The Billy Bunters of Railway School must try even harder
In his annual summer-term report on the pupils of Railway School, headmaster CHRISTIAN WOLMAR praises improved performance but finds there ...
Rail 545: The Tories are back in town with tough questions on rail
There’s a delicious irony about a Labour government defending a privatised rail system which the Tories admit they got wrong ...
Rail 544: Rail’s Da Vinci Code: lots of nice theories, few hard facts
A triple-pronged battle over the financial future of the railways will be fought during the next two years between the ...
Rail 543: Pessimistic Treasury is stifling major railway projects
A new report warning that a ‘pessimism bias’ is preventing Britain from getting the large-scale rail infrastructure projects it needs ...
Rail 542: Assembly report plays petty politics with July 7 attacks
The London Assembly’s report into the July 7 bombings unfairly pillories a group of public servants who responded admirably to ...
Rail 541: MPs set to answer £1bn question: what are franchises for?
For the best part of a decade, CHRISTIAN WOLMAR has been repeatedly asking ‘what is the purpose of franchising?’ Now, ...
Rail 540: Railway passed from one ‘safe pair of hands’ to another
Although new Transport Secretary Douglas Alexander is probably just keeping the seat warm, CHRISTIAN WOLMAR advises him to stay on ...
Rail 539: Why we must cross-question the logic of Crossrail scheme
The more CHRISTIAN WOLMAR looks at Crossrail, the less attractive it becomes, with nearly as many people being inconvenienced by ...
Rail 538: Sir Humphrey’s flounderings will mean a wider role for NR
The Rail Review has given civil servants the whip-hand in determining the way our railway is run - but, claims ...
Rail 537: How the railway has gone from dynamic to dysfunctional
Three current controversies demonstrate how the privatised railway is far less flexible and adaptable to change than BR was, CHRISTIAN ...
Rail 536: Darling: damning the high-speed line with faint praise?
Transport Secretary Alistair Darling’s warm words about a North- South high-speed rail link are far from a ringing endorsement of ...
Rail 535: CTRL: an outrageous saga of arrogance and incompetence
The decision by the Office of National Statistics that the CTRL should be included on the government’s books has exposed ...
Rail 534: Defence of privatisation decadcade disregards the downsides
It’s ten years since the handful of passengers on the 0510 Twickenham-Waterloo unknowingly made history as the pioneers of rail ...
Rail 533: Closure document clears the tracks for widespread cuts
Brushing aside a Parliamentary put-down by Alistair Darling, CHRISTIAN WOLMAR insists that the proposed new closure procedures will be a ...
Rail 532: Do-nothing Darling’s ‘Mr Hyde’ act heralds doom for LRT
Unlike his boss Tony Blair, Transport Secretary Alistair Darling seems determined to bequeath no legacy, argues CHRISTIAN WOLMAR - and ...
Rail 531: Dishonest GW deal signals cash crisis by end of decade
The Greater Western franchise, with its massive premium payments, is just a cynical attempt to cash in on the good ...
Rail 530: 2006: ‘plain vanilla’ franchise
Fare increases, ‘lowest subsidy’ franchises with unachievable targets and the start of a cash squeeze on Network Rail all herald ...
Rail 529: Level Crossing Tragedy was a Disaster Waiting to Happen
The tabloids are rightly blamed for hyping up dangers on the railway but, as CHRISTIAN WOLMAR explains, the deaths of ...
Rail 528: Save the sleeper campaign
The battle to save the 'Night Riviera' has implications way beyond the West Country. After chairing the launch of the ...
Rail 527: Network Rail begins to take over the railway
With the publication of its strategy for the South West , CHRISTIAN WOLMAR applauds the broader vision of the railway ...
