Rail 878: Obsession with competition is a waste of effort
It’s fantasy time in the rail industry. Keith Williams made the mistake of asking for submissions...
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Letter to The Times: Extinction Rebellion demonstrates the benefits of pedestrianisation
There has been much debate about the rights and wrongs of the Extinction Rebellion demonstrations but... -
Rail 877: Pensions confusion spells death of franchising
With the franchising system already reeling from a series of setbacks, somehow the Department for Transport... -
My (short) letter to The Times on franchising
The row over pension funding highlights the impossibility of transferring real risks to the private sector.... -
Rail 876: The long slow death of franchises
The death throes of franchising are not a pretty sight. That the present model is dead... -
Rail 875: Electric is the buzz word
Of all the stupid decisions that successive governments have made about the railways over the past... -
Rail 874: Goblin gobbled up
It seemed such a simple job. The Barking – Gospel Oak line was becoming so heavily... -
Sunday Politics: Doubts about driverless cars
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Rail 873: A small step towards sorting out the fares
It is one of the great ironies of rail privatisation that it was supposed to free... -
Book review: Monisha Rajesh, Around the world in 80 trains
Monisha Rajesh wrote lovingly about the Indian railways in her previous book but this set her... -
Rail 872: The North needs rail investment
One of the few (only?) good ideas from George Osborne when he was Chancellor was the... -
Driverless cars and dead bodies
Technology is the new religion. Because of the transformation from an analog to a digital world... -
Letter to The Times on Driverless cars
It is unclear where the push for driverless cars (News, Feb 6) is coming from. There... -
Rail 871: The Crossrail mystery – and how the USA does not understand rail
The awful year in 2018 endured by the railways might have been leavened somewhat had Crossrail... -
India’s love hate relationship with the railways
Nowhere other than India is the railway so indelibly connected with the image of the nation....
