Rail 1034: Time for more euro trains
Standing in a monster queue at Paris Gare du Nord a couple of weeks ago got me ranting again about ...
New post Rail 1032: What is GBR?
In a couple of years’ time, a new organisation, Great British Railways, will employ some 110.000 people and run much, ...
Rail 1031: HS2 decision on north of Birmingham must be made
In all the fuss about the future structure of the railways, there’s a rather big elephant in the room that ...
Transport in year 2225? Prob, much the same
The editor has asked me to look to the future. This is to mark the fact that the railways are ...
Rail 1030: What is GBR going to be?
Consultation papers are, by their very nature, rather dishonest exercises. They set out a series of ideas which are supposedly ...
Rail 1029: Labour’s confusing transport policy
I am a member of the Labour party. Indeed, I was a parliamentary candidate in a by election in 2016 ...
Rail 1028: The questions over Great British Railways
A feeling of gloom has descended on the whole country, like one of the smogs which I am old enough ...
Rail 1027: Open access remains an open question
The privatised train companies made a mistake by taking a hardline in relation to Labour’s plans to bring back operations ...
Life of Pie: How paedophiles tried to become respectable
The man who walked up the stairs was the embodiment of the cartoon image of a paedophile. Grey, thinning hair, ...
Rail 1026: Questions over Labour’s rail reform
For the second time this decade, we have had three transport secretaries in a year, emphasising how this is a ...
Rail 1025: The bullet train story
The control centre of the Shinkansen, the world’s first high speed railway, is surprisingly low tech. The display of the ...
Rail 1024: How they do it in Japan
The news that Tokyo Metro, the state owned company that runs part of the city’s underground network is to help ...
