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 426: Fast but inflexible Eurostar faces long haul into profit
Eurostar symbolises both the benefits and the bugbears of the railway, combining speed with inflexibility. Despite efforts by its highly ...
Rail 425: Festive tips for a fragmented, dysfunctional railway family
With his increasingly intemperate public statements, Railtrack Chief Executive Stephen Marshall is concentrating on winning a better deal for his ...
Rail 424: SRA and ATOC lack authority over London transit body idea
By opposing the concept of a publicly accountable transit authority for London, the SRA is again demonstrating its lack of ...
Rail 423: ‘Silly Company’ was victim of assisted suicide – not murder
The real story of the fall of Railtrack was not the Transport Secretary’s ‘murder’ of the company but its senior ...
Rail 422: Dear Richard, welcome to your job, but no compromises
In an open letter to Richard Bowker, CHRISTIAN WOLMAR urges the new Chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority to redraw ...
Rail 421: We must seize this chance to travel toward railway Nirvana
After analysing the reasons for the collapse of Railtrack in RAIL 420, CHRISTIAN WOLMAR urges the industry to put the ...
Rail 420: Why Railtrack’s fall was a revolution waiting to happen
The revolutionaries have triumphed over the evolutionists in the battle over the future structure of the railway industry. CHRISTIAN WOLMAR, ...
Rail 419: A railway Golden Age that slipped through our fingers
The publication of the Government’s Transport White Paper and its tenyear plan seemed set to usher in a new railway ...
Rail 418: Safety should be led by the statistics not the editorials
Most of the deaths on the railway last year involved suicides and trespass, not that you’d notice from the way ...
Rail 417: Calm before the anniversary storm for rattled Railtrack
Despite the abrupt dismissal of Chief Operating Officer Jonson Cox and the ‘new broom’ approach of Chairman John Robinson, Railtrack ...
Rail 416: Railway class of 2001: must try harder or face expulsion
As the School for Railway Children breaks up for the summer holidays after a turbulent year, CHRISTIAN WOLMAR turns headmaster ...
Rail 415: Simplifying the structure is how our railways will recover
Railtrack’s collapse, emergency speed restrictions, and soaring costs: the railway is still in crisis. CHRISTIAN WOLMAR argues that a ‘back ...
Rail 414: Déjà vu for the Underground as ‘unworkable’ PPP goes on
The much-vaunted Public Private Partnership scheme for the London Underground - complete with 30-year contracts for the consortia involved - ...
Rail 413: Two parallel rail universes – but can they ever meet?
The railways have long passed the point where simple exhortation to ‘get their act together’ will have any effect on ...
Rail 412: It is time to inquire into the purpose of these inquiries
Lord Cullen’s Ladbroke Grove inquiry report is well-written and admirably detailed but has major omissions - and, argues CHRISTIAN WOLMAR, ...
Rail 411: Memo to new ministers: early action needed on the railway
It’s the day after the general election and an extract from a memo to incoming transport ministers sent by Sir ...
Rail 410: Railtrack is dead – now let’s anoint a real successor
Despite the highly publicised appointment of a new Chairman, Railtrack is effectively a spent force, and there’s no point either ...
Rail 409: A 20-year game of Monopoly that is just one big gamble
Twenty-year franchises are one of the centrepieces of the refranchising process, based on the belief that such a long contract ...
Rail 408: Central Railway: a big idea that could even be beautiful
After all the navel-gazing of the past six months, it’s time to raise our sights and think big - and ...
Rail 407: Two not-so-wise men follow a very bright but illusory star
By playing to the tabloid gallery, the two distinguished authors of the report on train protection systems could be storing ...
