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  • Fares review dodges the big issues
    3 November 14, 2013

    Fares review dodges the big issues

    It was never going to be easy sorting out the chaotic fares structure. Simplification, standardisation, information,...
  • East Coast set to remain in the public sector (sort of)
    5 October 2, 2013

    East Coast set to remain in the public sector (sort of)

    There are some stories in the modern railway that you could not make up because they...
  • Decision over East Coast is pure politics
    1 May 31, 2013

    Decision over East Coast is pure politics

    Rail privatisation was supposed to have taken the politics out of the railways. Well, that was...
  • Rail 720: Franchise timetable shows system is unworkable
    2 April 15, 2013

    Rail 720: Franchise timetable shows system is unworkable

    My alter ego, Mystic Wolmar, sometimes gets predictions so wrong that I have contemplated smashing his...
  • Mcloughlin’s full plate
    0 March 10, 2013

    Mcloughlin’s full plate

    It’s fortunate that Patrick McLoughlin appears utterly unflappable because there has been an awful lot to...
  • Rail 714: Brown review predictably disappoints
    3 January 15, 2013

    Rail 714: Brown review predictably disappoints

    When it was decided to set up an enquiry on the scandal over the suicide of...
  • McLoughlin jumps into new bear pit
    0 December 1, 2012

    McLoughlin jumps into new bear pit

    If Patrick McLoughlin thought that escaping the bear pit of the whips office to the post...
  • Patrick McLoughlin’s tough baptism
    2 November 30, 2012

    Patrick McLoughlin’s tough baptism

    Patrick McLoughlin is shrewd enough to have known that becoming transport secretary might thrust him into...
  • Rail 708: how to sort out franchising omnishambles
    1 November 1, 2012

    Rail 708: how to sort out franchising omnishambles

    Dear Richard Brown, You have the unenviable task of trying to sort out the franchising issue...
  • Rail 707: Franchise fiasco puts whole railway investment programme in jeopardy
    2 October 15, 2012

    Rail 707: Franchise fiasco puts whole railway investment programme in jeopardy

    Talking to railway managers about the West Coast debacle, time and again they came out with...
  • Ministers should be held to account
    3 October 4, 2012

    Ministers should be held to account

    This was a train crash waiting to happen. The franchise process, an invention more suited for...
  • Rail 705: Greening pays the price for principles
    2 September 15, 2012

    Rail 705: Greening pays the price for principles

    Here we go again. Another year, another transport secretary. For no fault of her own except...
  • Heathrow third runway hoo-ha misses the point
    3 September 6, 2012

    Heathrow third runway hoo-ha misses the point

    I wish the new transport secretary, Patrick McLoughlin, well and hope he is in post for rather...
  • My latest articles:

    • Driverless cars and dead bodies February 15, 2019
    • Letter to The Times on Driverless cars February 8, 2019
    • India’s love hate relationship with the railways January 20, 2019
    • EU membership does not preclude rail renationalisation January 18, 2019
    • My speech on driverless cars at the Transportation Research Board, Washington DC, 15/1/19 January 15, 2019
  • My latest tweets…

    RT @JeffOsb68050186 @BBCSPLondon @brianbarou @christianwolmar @BBCiPlayer Autonomous cars are a pipe dream, mamy years away from ever being implemented and only then In Cities that have a grid system to navigate on. It's another Ponzi Idea by tech corps to sucker Idiotic Govts Into parting with hard earned TAX payers money.

    About 16 hours ago

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    • India’s love hate relationship with the railways January 20, 2019
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    RT @JeffOsb68050186 @BBCSPLondon @brianbarou @christianwolmar @BBCiPlayer Autonomous cars are a pipe dream, mamy years away from ever being implemented and only then In Cities that have a grid system to navigate on. It's another Ponzi Idea by tech corps to sucker Idiotic Govts Into parting with hard earned TAX payers money.

    About 16 hours ago

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