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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...