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 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 ...
Rail 1025: The bullet train story
The control centre of the Shinkansen, the world’s first high speed railway, is surprisingly low tech. The display of the ...
Rail 1024: How they do it in Japan
The news that Tokyo Metro, the state owned company that runs part of the city’s underground network is to help ...
A mixed rural ride
In the past couople of months, my speaking engagements have taken me to various interesting rail connected places, mostly for ...
rail 1023: Batty shed exposes HS2 incompetence
Only by looking at the origins of the HS2 project can we understand how we get to £100m bat tunnels ...
Rail 1022: Budget’s transport failings
This was not a good budget for transport. There was some positive aspects such as the confirmation of some long ...
Rail 1021: How will the railway revolution play out?
The government has placed great emphasis on ‘sorting out the railways’ as a way of showing things can change and ...
Newsletter Nov 24 – with lots of links to recent posts
Dear subscriber (to subscribe fill in form on home page) Oh dear, so much to get in – apols. First, ...
The demise of mail on rail
Mail and rail don’t just rhyme. They are symbiotic. Letters and parcels have been carried by train almost since the ...
Rail 1020: How to really change transport policy – but will Labour do it?
Change is the watchword of the new government. At the recent Labour conference in Liverpool, the words ‘change begins’ were ...
