0 October 13, 2004 Rail 498: Could SET set the scene for publicly run Kent franchise? At a Labour conference fringe meeting, Transport Secretary Alistair Darling appeared to hint to CHRISTIAN WOLMAR...
0 September 29, 2004 Rail 497: A ‘Revolution’ that leaves the railway in the red The Prime Minister’s brief appearance at the launch of the WCML Pendolino service could be a...
0 September 15, 2004 Rail 496: How the Curse of the SRA claimed two high casualties The government set up the SRA as a quasi-independent body, but whenever its chairmen tried to...
0 September 1, 2004 Rail 495: The franchise merry-go-round So the merry go round continues. FirstGroup is awarded the Scotrail franchise although it was not...
0 August 18, 2004 Rail 494: Class of 2004 is improving – but still must try harder In his annual report on the performance of pupils in the railway school, headmaster CHRISTIAN WOLMAR...
0 August 4, 2004 Rail 493: Review couples too much caution with too little clarity So what was it all about? Tom Winsor didn’t want it, Richard Bowker has been bumped...
0 July 21, 2004 Rail 492: Darling’s review: change here for a simpler railway system Britain’s privatised railway is often said to be in a constant state of change. The reality,...
0 July 7, 2004 Rail 491: Rail the loser as bosses play ‘let’s pretend’ game Privatised railway chiefs like to portray themselves as buccaneering capitalists in a risk-taking industry but the...
0 June 23, 2004 Rail 490: Darling won’t put weedkiller on nettle strangling railway According to a summary of the draft rail review leaked to CHRISTIAN WOLMAR, the Government proposes...
0 June 9, 2004 Rail 489: Winsorworld… we’re the fools and the contract is king As Tom Winsor prepares to return to a highly-paid job in the City, CHRISTIAN WOLMAR wonders...
0 May 26, 2004 Rail 488: UK should emulate Australian example of rail integration Britain pioneered the ill-starred global reform of the railways in the 1990s. Back from addressing a...
0 May 12, 2004 Rail 487: Light rail is trapped on tramlines of a mistaken model New light rail systems have proved expensive and some are failing to meet predictions of passenger...
0 April 28, 2004 Rail 486: Bowker’s next stage on journey to a new BR? A chastened Richard Bowker has undergone a change of heart as remarkable as the Prime Minister’s...
0 April 14, 2004 Rail 485: Orwell’s spectre stalks railway as history is rewritten It’s more like 1984 than 2004 as senior railway figures criticise a structure that only months...
0 March 31, 2004 Rail 484: Ministers must hold their nerve after Madrid If politicians create a sense of panic about security on the railways in the wake of...