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,...
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Q&A: Selby train crash
Railway expert Christian Wolmar answers our questions following the collision near Selby in North Yorkshire in...
Rail 403: Competition is weaving a tangled web on ticket sales
With 2.3 million registered users, thetrainline. com has been one of the quiet success stories of...
Rail 402: Dithering SRA could delegate franchise decisions to judges
By failing to lay down proper ground rules for the refranchising process, CHRISTIAN WOLMAR believes that...
Rail 401: HSE ignores the interlocking causes of Ladbroke Grove
The Health & Safety Executive’s report on the Ladbroke Grove inquiry was supposed to be a...
Rail 400: Recovery not on the cards without a national railcard
When the railway launches its great marketing effort to win back lost passengers after the crisis,...-
Rail 399: This crisis won’t be calmed simply by soothing words
Railway pundits are split into two antagonistic camps – optimists who believe the crisis will all... -
Rail 398: No one – and everyone – to blame for rail’s ‘Troubles’
All the major players in the railway – the Government, operators, Railtrack, SRA and HSE –... -
Rail 397: Gerald jumped before he was pushed back into the abyss
The reasons given by Gerald Corbett for his departure from Railtrack were accurate – but they... -
Rail 395: It would be madness to set this flawed system in stone
There was a depressing sense of deja-vu about the scenes at Hatfield in the wake of... 
Rail 394: Cool heads should outweigh emotions in the ATP debate
Never in the history of the railway has its future depended so critically on the views...-
Forgotten Children – the background to the children’s homes scandals
In the 1970s and 1980s, an epidemic of abuse swept through Britain’s children’s homes. More than... -
Rail 393: Will the fuel furore backfire on rail investment plans?
The Great Millennium Fuel Crisis was hailed by the media as a bonanza for rail. There... -
Rail 392: Industry, Whitehall and courts must act to vanquish vandals
With three incidents involving vandal damage to trains every day, a catastrophe is in the making... -
Rail 391: Two-nil to the incumbents, but the game has just started
The new Midland Mainline and Chiltern franchise deals are replete with welcome promises of badlyneeded investment...
