
Rail 981: The missing transport policy
There was, once upon a time, the concept of a transport policy. Actually, as I wrote in my short book, ...

The return of the sleeper train
It’s a fabulous combination: travelling by train and sleeping. And the good news is that the concept of sleeper trains ...

Rail 980: HS2 on the brink
Euston is currently a disaster zone – in every sense. I admit this is a subjective view as I live ...

HS2 going anywhere?
The suggestion that HS2 could end permanently at Old Oak Common was an idea born of desperation. Although Jeremy Hunt, ...

Letter to The Times: Labour should question HS2
Sir. That HS2 has become a money pit pretending to be a job creation scheme was always predictable. The problem ...

Rail 979: Could a Cyber attack stop Britain’s railways?
Never let the facts get in the way of a good story. That’s an old adage of some tabloid newspapers ...

Rail 978: Labour’s plans for the railways are…
Masked by Keir Starmer’s speech setting out his plans for a Labour government, on the same day there was a ...

Rail 977: Sandwich joke masks thin gruel
Perhaps it shouldn’t matter. Mark Harper, in his keynote speech, went for that old trope of mentioning British Rail sandwiches ...