Too much dithering over Northern Powerhouse Rail by Christian Wolmar Here’s a hard task. Let’s try to make sense of ...

Welsh set the example to the rest of UK’s railways by Christian Wolmar Quietly and unobtrusively, Wales has become the ...

There’s no doubt that Lord Peter Hendy, the rail minister, is good at adapting to new situations. He was, after ...

The Great Gathering at Derby by Christian WolmarWhat is it about railways that people love so much?Read on Substack ...

Ah, the irony. The focus of much of the media coverage of the return of South Western Railway to the ...

The expression ‘industrial strategy’ was anathema to the government during the recent long period of Conservative rule. It was equated ...

The cost of finishing HS2 between Birmingham Curzon Street and  Old Oak Common has soared to £81 bn (at 2019 ...

Standing in a monster queue at Paris Gare du Nord a couple of weeks ago got me ranting again about ...

Christian Wolmar Spending a week touring round China on the high speed rail network and being shown round the huge ...

In a couple of years’ time, a new organisation, Great British Railways, will employ some 110.000 people and run much, ...

In all the fuss about the future structure of the railways, there’s a rather big elephant in the room that ...

Consultation papers are, by their very nature, rather dishonest exercises. They set out a series of ideas which are supposedly ...

I am a member of the Labour party. Indeed, I was a parliamentary candidate in a by election in 2016 ...

A feeling of gloom has descended on the whole country, like one of the smogs which I am old enough ...

The privatised train companies made a mistake by taking a hardline in relation to Labour’s plans to bring back operations ...

For the second time this decade, we have had three transport secretaries in a year, emphasising how this is a ...

The control centre of the Shinkansen, the world’s first high speed railway, is surprisingly low tech. The display of the ...

Change is the watchword of the new government. At the recent Labour conference in Liverpool, the words ‘change begins’ were ...

Of the many issues facing the Labour government’s transport team, the least discussed has been the future of HS2. Louise ...

How many bills does it need to sort out the railways? Well, as we now know, there are two on ...