Rail 418: Safety should be led by the statistics not the editorials
Most of the deaths on the railway last year involved suicides and trespass, not that you’d...
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Rail 417: Calm before the anniversary storm for rattled Railtrack
Despite the abrupt dismissal of Chief Operating Officer Jonson Cox and the ‘new broom’ approach of...
Rail 416: Railway class of 2001: must try harder or face expulsion
As the School for Railway Children breaks up for the summer holidays after a turbulent year,...
Rail 415: Simplifying the structure is how our railways will recover
Railtrack’s collapse, emergency speed restrictions, and soaring costs: the railway is still in crisis. CHRISTIAN WOLMAR...
Rail 414: Déjà vu for the Underground as ‘unworkable’ PPP goes on
The much-vaunted Public Private Partnership scheme for the London Underground – complete with 30-year contracts for...
Rail 413: Two parallel rail universes – but can they ever meet?
The railways have long passed the point where simple exhortation to ‘get their act together’ will...
Rail 412: It is time to inquire into the purpose of these inquiries
Lord Cullen’s Ladbroke Grove inquiry report is well-written and admirably detailed but has major omissions –...-
Rail 411: Memo to new ministers: early action needed on the railway
It’s the day after the general election and an extract from a memo to incoming transport... 
Rail 410: Railtrack is dead – now let’s anoint a real successor
Despite the highly publicised appointment of a new Chairman, Railtrack is effectively a spent force, and...-
Rail 409: A 20-year game of Monopoly that is just one big gamble
Twenty-year franchises are one of the centrepieces of the refranchising process, based on the belief that... -
Rail 408: Central Railway: a big idea that could even be beautiful
After all the navel-gazing of the past six months, it’s time to raise our sights and... -
Rail 407: Two not-so-wise men follow a very bright but illusory star
By playing to the tabloid gallery, the two distinguished authors of the report on train protection... -
Rail 406: The core question of the rail crisis – what is Railtrack for?
Railtrack is a paradox: a capitalist company without a definable product. Based on such a false... -
Rail 405: SRA has failed to deliver the goods – a real vision for rail
The concept of the Strategic Rail Authority was a good one, which had the potential to... -
Rail 404: A creaking structure badly in need of major rebuilding…
Privatisation, we were promised, would lever in record levels of private investment to the railway industry,...
