Fares review dodges the big issues
It was never going to be easy sorting out the chaotic fares structure. Simplification, standardisation, information,...
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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
Rail privatisation was supposed to have taken the politics out of the railways. Well, that was... -
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
It’s fortunate that Patrick McLoughlin appears utterly unflappable because there has been an awful lot to... -
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
If Patrick McLoughlin thought that escaping the bear pit of the whips office to the post... -
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
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
Talking to railway managers about the West Coast debacle, time and again they came out with... -
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
Here we go again. Another year, another transport secretary. For no fault of her own except... -
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...
