Well here’s an apparent paradox. The Conservative Secretary of State for Transport, Mark Harper has decided to effectively renationalise TransPennineExpress ...

There’s a bit of magic about Great British Railways. First it appeared out of the hat as a typical bit ...

I do not want to get into a ding dong over HS2 with my esteemed editor Nigel Harris and other ...

There was, once upon a time, the concept of a transport policy. Actually, as I wrote in my short book, ...

Euston is currently a disaster zone – in every sense. I admit this is a subjective view as I live ...

Never let the facts get in the way of a good story. That’s an old adage of some tabloid newspapers ...

Masked by Keir Starmer’s speech setting out his plans for a Labour government, on the same day there was a ...

Perhaps it shouldn’t matter. Mark Harper, in his keynote speech, went for that old trope of mentioning British Rail sandwiches ...

We live in strange, indeed confusing times. In the wider political economy, we have a Chancellor of the Exchequer who ...

So what is happening in the Department for Transport while the railways steadily fall apart before our eyes to the ...

Of necessity, a New Year requires a modicum of optimism. Having done 50 or more media interviews over the past ...

This year, to borrow a timely term from our late Queen, has been the annus horribilis for the railways. Just ...

My second favourite statistic uncovered while researching my various books is that British Railways, during its 50 year history, shed ...

Time to take a breather away from the crazy hurly burly of the day to day railway and pause a ...

To say we live in extraordinary times qualifies as understatement of the year. Consider the bald facts that we are ...

(written in October and now already out of date!) At the time of writing, Anne-Marie Trevelyan is transport secretary and ...

(This was written before the Nov 17th announcement which appears to leave much HS2 spending intact though scepticism remains about ...

Great British Railways looks set to be stillborn. All the indications are that the legislation to create it promised by ...

I have been inundated with responses to my column in the last issue bemoaning the fact that levels service are ...

Lady luck has not shone on Richard Hughes-Jones. Well it did at first. As a five year old, he remembers ...