HS2 is one big punt
Let battle commence. The controversy so far over the building of the new north-south high-speed railway line, HS2, has been ...
Chaos threatens boom on the railways
These are both the best of times and the worst of times for the railways. They are enjoying an unprecedented ...
Robert Horton obit (add)
: Robert Horton played a crucial and controversial role in the privatisation of Britain’s railways in the mid 1990s and ...
Hammond accounting methods did not make sense
The conventional wisdom on Philip Hammond was the overused political cliche that he was a "safe pair of hands". The ...
The slow death of British rail manufacturing
If you walk down the evocatively named Litchurch Lane to reach the Bombardier works in Derby, you can almost smell ...
Technology can cut travel demand
Technological leaps in transport have led to countless fantasies – self-driving cars, pods on rails and even mini-helicopters – most ...
Guardian Road Safety supplement
Road safety policy in the UK is at a crossroads and is set to become an area of political conflict ...
Byers was too hapless to influence minister
Stephen Byers was such a weak minister that it is laughable to think he has any influence on the current ...
Dispense with toilet paper!
Toilet paper is a serious issue. But the minute one starts talking about it, the giggles start. So let me ...
Obituary: Phil Jeffries, a meticulous campaigner
Phil Jeffries, who has died aged 55, devoted much of his life to campaigning on a variety of planning, housing ...
Fire and Steam Review from the Guardian
Our leading writer and commentator on the railways is Christian Wolmar. He is perfectly normal, you understand ("My trainspotting days ...
Why can’t we have fast trains
Those clever French certainly pulled a fast one this week. While Network Rail was boasting about spending billions on lengthening ...
Guardian obituary Robin Rackham
The aviation world is governed by an omerta which its members break at their peril. Robin Rackham, who has died ...
Going Underground
Subterranean Railway Review There is a reproduction in this book of an 1868 etching by Gustave Doré, which illustrates beautifully ...
Forget Byers: the scandal was in the original sell-off
Stephen Byers may have told a few porkies to his parliamentary colleagues, but that does not mean that his policy ...
Government pulls the plug on Light Rail schemes
New Labour ministers have blown hot and cold about trams ever since they first came to power in 1997. At ...
Sir Alastair Morton
Sir Alastair Morton, who has died of a heart attack at the age of 66, was the man who got ...
We must still listen to kids
The decision by the High Court to award libel damages to two nursery workers in Newcastle over allegations of child ...
