Chinese banquet rituals
When heading for China on a business trip I was somewhat bemused to be warned about the banquets I would ...
HS2 hits £100bn and still rising
The cost of finishing HS2 between Birmingham Curzon Street and Old Oak Common has soared to £81 bn (at 2019 ...
Rail 1034: Time for more euro trains
Standing in a monster queue at Paris Gare du Nord a couple of weeks ago got me ranting again about ...
Rail 1033: China’s ambition will sweep the world
Spending a week touring round China on the high speed rail network and being shown round the huge factories which ...
New post Rail 1032: What is GBR?
In a couple of years’ time, a new organisation, Great British Railways, will employ some 110.000 people and run much, ...
Rail 1031: HS2 decision on north of Birmingham must be made
In all the fuss about the future structure of the railways, there’s a rather big elephant in the room that ...
Transport in year 2225? Prob, much the same
The editor has asked me to look to the future. This is to mark the fact that the railways are ...
Rail 1030: What is GBR going to be?
Consultation papers are, by their very nature, rather dishonest exercises. They set out a series of ideas which are supposedly ...
Rail 1029: Labour’s confusing transport policy
I am a member of the Labour party. Indeed, I was a parliamentary candidate in a by election in 2016 ...
Rail 1028: The questions over Great British Railways
A feeling of gloom has descended on the whole country, like one of the smogs which I am old enough ...
Rail 1027: Open access remains an open question
The privatised train companies made a mistake by taking a hardline in relation to Labour’s plans to bring back operations ...
Life of Pie: How paedophiles tried to become respectable
The man who walked up the stairs was the embodiment of the cartoon image of a paedophile. Grey, thinning hair, ...
Rail 1026: Questions over Labour’s rail reform
For the second time this decade, we have had three transport secretaries in a year, emphasising how this is a ...
