Rail 898: Beeching cuts are not going to be reversed
This is one of those rare times when the fact that this column has to be...
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Rail 897: My love affair with Crossrail
Here is the news: Crossrail is happening. Yes, of course it is late and the most...
Letter to The Times: HS2 is the wrong scheme
I detect that, like me and indeed Boris Johnson, Danny Finkelstein instinctively wants to support HS2,...
Johnson’s HS2 bind
December’s election result was both good and bad news for HS2. Boris Johnson is facing a...
Rail 896: A decade that was not all progress
The start of a new year, decade even, is obviously a time to both reflect on...
The new battle of Jericho
(pic by permission, Andy Ffrench, Oxford Mail) Here’s a prediction for my second blog of the...
January 2020 newsletter
I am starting the year as I mean to go on, with a new newsletter for...
Book review: The luxury trains
Martyn Pring, Luxury Railway Travel, a social and business history, Pen & Sword, £35 There may...
Rail 895: Brexit will be done, but what next? And Mumbai’s amazing metro to be
So it’s over. Brexit is going to happen and the Conservatives will dominate politics for at...
Delights of transport scored nul points
The Labour manifesto was incredible. In the true sense of the word, meaning unbelievable. It was...
Rail 894: Devolution brings new impetus to Welsh railways
Wales has often been the forgotten part of the UK, attracting little attention or media interest....
The level of homelessness is a crisis
The first in my new blog reflecting matters mostly other than transport – though I will...-
Rail 893: the unanswered questions on HS2
HS2 is the biggest infrastructure project ever to be built in this country. It is, too,... 
Young people engaged and enraged by Brexit
I do occasional talks for Speakers for Schools, a charity set up by Robert Peston eight...
Rail 892: The holy grail of technology can be a barrier to investment
There are many ways to kill off projects and the Department for Transport is proving particularly...
