The problem with driverless cars
As an arch critic of the UK’s autonomous vehicle plans, transport commentator Christian Wolmar sums up...
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Signal box battle
Petersfield signal box is in the wrong place. Or at least it is now. Actually, when...
October newsletter: new books and the bloody viruses
Sorry I have missed out a couple of months, due to holidays and overwork. But I...
Who is going to save the railways?
An emergency situation requires an emergency response. So far we have seen little sign of it....
Who will save the inner cities?
At times I feel like crying. I did the other day when I met a railway...
Rail 913: Wrong way to try to prove that rail is safe
Statistics are a big part of my business as a journalist. I love it when I...
The privatisation that never was
Let’s stop pretending that the railways were ever really privatised. When they were broken up into...
Rail 912: Accident highlights new danger for the railways
Of all the headline stories that become the subject of these columns, this is the one...
Rail 911: The campaign the railways must launch
The scene: Waterloo station, on Saturday, the first day of August. Time: noon. I have to...-
Rail 910: the campaign that the rail industry must run to save the railways
It is impossible to exaggerate the extent of the crisis that the railways are facing. Glib... 
Rail 909: J’Accuse – the culprits wrecking the rail industry
(With apologies to Émile Zola) A letter to Boris Johnson, Prime Minister Sir Permit me to...
July Newsletter: The self-destruction of the rail industry
There has been pretty much only one theme to my recent writings – in The Times,...
Rail 908: The future is vertical…and the slavery myth
Let’s look to the future for once, given that the present is so bleak. I will...
Letter to The Times: Cut the bureaucracy, open the lines now
Sir, The process for reopening railway lines as currently set up is cumbersome and slow. It...
The Great British Train Wreck
Let the train take the strain”, exhorted British Rail’s famous slogan in the 1970s. More than...
