Croydon tram disaster: the unanswered questions
The acquittal of the driver of the Croydon tram which overturned on a tight bend killing seven people in November ...
A newsletter with more links than a seaside golf course
Well busy does not describe the last month or so. Of course I chose May to go on holiday after ...
Rail 985: Crisis, what crisis?
When the new ministerial team at the Department for Transport took over after the brief interlude of the Truss premiership, ...
The story behind the Indian rail disaster
When three trains collided in eastern India on Friday night, killing at least 260 people and injuring hundreds more, the ...
Rail 984: Reluctant renationalisation
Well here’s an apparent paradox. The Conservative Secretary of State for Transport, Mark Harper has decided to effectively renationalise TransPennineExpress ...
Rail 983: Great British Railways pulled out of the hat?
There’s a bit of magic about Great British Railways. First it appeared out of the hat as a typical bit ...
Rail 982: Should HS2 be saved or scrapped?
I do not want to get into a ding dong over HS2 with my esteemed editor Nigel Harris and other ...
The crumbling edifice of rail privatisation
It should not really have taken Einstein to work out that doing the same thing and expecting a different result ...
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 ...
