Times review of Cathedrals of Steam
Review by Richard Godwin London has 14 railway termini, more than any other city in the world. It has no ...
December newsletter: deja vu all over again
This is the newsletter that goes out to subscribers every month. If you want to subscribe click here There’s rather ...
HS2 likes to keep things secret
With £20bn already swallowed up and an estimated £80bn more needed, HS2 is good at disposing of large sums of ...
Rail 920: ORR focus on little used stations is an own goal
Lots of fun has been had over the past couple of weeks with Berney Arms, an obscure station in Norfolk ...
Working together, a concept lost in the private free for all
Over the past few weeks, I have spent a lot of time talking to former British Rail staff for my ...
Daily Telegraph review: Cathedrals of Steam:
By Christopher Howse In Cousin Chatterbox’s Railway Alphabet it says: “A is the Arch, which you see when you start,/ ...
Rail 919: Welsh report shows that building roads is not the only or best option
Ever since the creation of a ministry of transport, just over a century ago, there has been a presumption of ...
Rail 918: Why rail replacement services are so dreadful
If there’s one phrase that deters people from trying to take a train, it is ‘a rail replacement service will ...
November newsletter – Covid crisis – and book offers
The second lockdown has just started and I see little way out of this crisis for the transport industry. As ...
Spectator review of Cathedrals of Steam
By Julian Glover I began this book waiting for a diesel train to Derby, under the windy, boxy, flat-roofed bit ...
Rail 917: Network Rail’s not invented here syndrome
Network Rail has rediscovered research. One of the great losses to the industry at privatisation was the rapid sell-off and ...
How to address opposition to low traffic neighbourhoods
It has become the biggest transport controversy of the century. Not rail nationalisation, not the £27bn roads programme, not even ...
Report just before Sandilands accident found no safety problems
The inquest into the deaths of the seven people who died in the Croydon tram crash in November 2016 will ...
Rail 916: So that’s why Crossrail was delayed…
Had it not been for the Covid-19 crisis, the further delays and extra costs of the Crossrail project would have ...
The problem with driverless cars
As an arch critic of the UK’s autonomous vehicle plans, transport commentator Christian Wolmar sums up his views in the ...
Rail 915: So what were franchises for?
So what were they for? The question ‘what is franchising for?’ which I have been asking for the past couple ...
Signal box battle
Petersfield signal box is in the wrong place. Or at least it is now. Actually, when it was built in ...
October newsletter: new books and the bloody viruses
Sorry I have missed out a couple of months, due to holidays and overwork. But I will try to produce ...
