0 July 28, 2020Rail 910: the campaign that the rail industry must run to save the railwaysIt is impossible to exaggerate the extent of the crisis that the railways are facing. Glib...
0 July 14, 2020Rail 909: J’Accuse – the culprits wrecking the rail industry(With apologies to Émile Zola) A letter to Boris Johnson, Prime Minister Sir Permit me to...
0 July 14, 2020July Newsletter: The self-destruction of the rail industryThere has been pretty much only one theme to my recent writings – in The Times,...
0 July 1, 2020Rail 908: The future is vertical…and the slavery mythLet’s look to the future for once, given that the present is so bleak. I will...
0 July 1, 2020Letter to The Times: Cut the bureaucracy, open the lines nowSir, The process for reopening railway lines as currently set up is cumbersome and slow. It...
0 June 24, 2020The Great British Train WreckLet the train take the strain”, exhorted British Rail’s famous slogan in the 1970s. More than...
0 June 15, 2020Rail 907: Muddled policy wrecking the railwaysI am at risk of repeating myself. I would love to be writing about something other...
0 May 29, 2020Rail 906: The railways must stop telling people not to use themWhatever happened to ALARP? That’s the safety principle by which the railway is supposed to function...
3 May 19, 2020By acquiescing to impossible rules, the railways are killing themselvesBy trying to do the impossible, the railways are on a suicide mission. Trying to enforce...
1 May 16, 2020May newsletter – one thing is certain: driverless cars are not the answerApologies for slight lateness, but I have just delivered the manuscript of my latest book, Cathedrals...
0 May 15, 2020Rail 905: Risk assessment is key to future of the railways Boris Johnson’s speech to the nation on Sunday May 10th was rambly, incoherent and he...
0 May 1, 2020Rail 904: Abnormal, the new normalWe are now in the new normal of empty train stations, reduced timetables and injunctions to...
4 April 28, 2020Pandemic risks wrecking public transportThere is, perversely, something heartening about the atmosphere on the streets today. Kids are pedalling away...
1 April 19, 2020Rail 903: The new normal is totally abnormalAs a journalist for nigh on half a century, who has covered all kinds of extraordinary...
0 April 6, 2020Rail 902: The trains must be kept running – even emptyWe have found out what living in a sci-fi dystopia is like. Fortunately, the basic services...