The failure of the Channel Tunnel
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the opening of the Channel tunnel, Britain’s first fixed connection to the European ...
Rail 999: The failure of Eurotunnel and Mystic Wolmar tries again
It is 30 years since I had a chat with John Major in the bowels of a freight Shuttle hurtling ...
Rail 998: Great British Railways is a lost cause
It has been clear for a long time that the proposed legislation for the railways which would formally create ...
Driverless cars really are on a road to nowhere
Developing driverless cars has been AI’s greatest test. And it has failed miserably, despite the expenditure of tens of billions ...
Letter to The Times: BR offers the right model
A small correction to Emma Duncan’s apposite and timely piece on the railways (Comment, December 2). British Rail was not ...
Rail 997: Deutsche Bahn is still great despite failings
Needing to go to Munich to record a TV interview, I decided to go by train, Munich, at the southern ...
Rail 996: The fiasco to end all fiascos
In over a quarter of a century of writing this column, there has been no end of scandals, mishaps, errors ...
Rail 995: Lots of factories but no orders
A new train production plant is to be opened by Siemens in Goole, east Yorkshire, next May, to produce, initially, ...
Rail 994: Tories step over the line
Regular readers will know that I am a Labour supporter but my political allegiance has nothing to do with the ...
‘Nobody gives a damn’ lives on
In the columns I write for Rail magazine, I have developed the concept of the Nobody Gives a Damn railway ...
Letter to The Times: The not so cunning plan on HS2
Cutting back HS2 to run solely between Old Oak Common and Birmingham Curzon Street is not the cunning plan that ...
Rail 993: Edinburgh tram success came at a price – and au revoir Nigel Harris
So how did the tram line in Edinburgh end up costing nearly twice its original estimate of £500m? That is ...
