Rail 992: Oh so you want to buy a ticket? Not here guv
‘How on earth did we get here? I wake up at night wondering what they were thinking’ – that was ...
Labour’s dilemma on HS2
A visit to a couple of the huge HS2 sites scattered along the route between London and Birmingham will debunk ...
Rail 991: HS2 engineering marvel but….
Gosh I wish I could love HS2. Life would be easier and I would not suffer the opprobrium I get ...
Why is HS2 costing so much?
The members of the Denham Waterski Club are among the few people in the Chilterns who are grateful for HS2 ...
Rail 990: Leaderless and rudderless, hapless Harper and his Merriman
August is always a good excuse for inaction but this dying Tory administration has taken it to extremes. The railways ...
Great British Railways – dead or alive?
There was a period soon after the arrival of Rishi Sunak in Number 10 when it seemed that Great British ...
Sunak’s fares dilemma
Rail commuters will be looking nervously at the announcement of July's inflation level. That's because they know that the annual ...
Rail 989: The railways in limbo and TFL needs to step up
The suspension of politics for the summer has left the railways in limbo. We have a zombie government eeking out ...
Book review: Andrew Martin’s love affair with the Metro
Andrew Martin is in love. Head over heels in love, quite unable to control himself in his appreciation of the ...
Sunak’s phony war is bound to result in defeat
Isn’t it extraordinary that the Tories scent blood over that most prosaic of innovations, the ponderously named low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) ...
Rail 988: ticket office madness
There is foolishness, insanity and utter and complete madness. It is difficult to characterise the announcement on the closure of ...
Rail 987: Wins and losses on the Great Western
There is nothing like a cab ride to learn about the state of the railway and there are few companions ...
Nowhere for tickets?
Rail enthusiasts may be on to something when they suggest that there is a deliberate plot afoot in the Government ...
Rail 986: The unsung railway heroes of WW2
Time for a summer diversion away from the hubbub of rail chaos and government indecision, to which I will doubtless ...
