0 March 7, 2001Rail 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,...
0 February 28, 2001Q&A: Selby train crashRailway expert Christian Wolmar answers our questions following the collision near Selby in North Yorkshire in...
0 February 21, 2001Rail 403: Competition is weaving a tangled web on ticket salesWith 2.3 million registered users, thetrainline. com has been one of the quiet success stories of...
0 February 7, 2001Rail 402: Dithering SRA could delegate franchise decisions to judgesBy failing to lay down proper ground rules for the refranchising process, CHRISTIAN WOLMAR believes that...
0 January 24, 2001Rail 401: HSE ignores the interlocking causes of Ladbroke GroveThe Health & Safety Executive’s report on the Ladbroke Grove inquiry was supposed to be a...
0 January 10, 2001Rail 400: Recovery not on the cards without a national railcardWhen the railway launches its great marketing effort to win back lost passengers after the crisis,...
0 December 27, 2000Rail 399: This crisis won’t be calmed simply by soothing wordsRailway pundits are split into two antagonistic camps – optimists who believe the crisis will all...
0 December 13, 2000Rail 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 –...
0 November 29, 2000Rail 397: Gerald jumped before he was pushed back into the abyssThe reasons given by Gerald Corbett for his departure from Railtrack were accurate – but they...
0 November 1, 2000Rail 395: It would be madness to set this flawed system in stoneThere was a depressing sense of deja-vu about the scenes at Hatfield in the wake of...
0 October 18, 2000Rail 394: Cool heads should outweigh emotions in the ATP debateNever in the history of the railway has its future depended so critically on the views...
16 October 8, 2000Forgotten Children – the background to the children’s homes scandalsIn the 1970s and 1980s, an epidemic of abuse swept through Britain’s children’s homes. More than...
0 October 4, 2000Rail 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...
0 September 20, 2000Rail 392: Industry, Whitehall and courts must act to vanquish vandalsWith three incidents involving vandal damage to trains every day, a catastrophe is in the making...
0 September 6, 2000Rail 391: Two-nil to the incumbents, but the game has just startedThe new Midland Mainline and Chiltern franchise deals are replete with welcome promises of badlyneeded investment...