Report just before Sandilands accident found no safety problems
The inquest into the deaths of the seven people who died in the Croydon tram crash...
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Rail 916: So that’s why Crossrail was delayed…
Had it not been for the Covid-19 crisis, the further delays and extra costs of the...
The problem with driverless cars
As an arch critic of the UK’s autonomous vehicle plans, transport commentator Christian Wolmar sums up...
Rail 915: So what were franchises for?
So what were they for? The question ‘what is franchising for?’ which I have been asking...
Signal box battle
Petersfield signal box is in the wrong place. Or at least it is now. Actually, when...
October newsletter: new books and the bloody viruses
Sorry I have missed out a couple of months, due to holidays and overwork. But I...
Who is going to save the railways?
An emergency situation requires an emergency response. So far we have seen little sign of it....
Who will save the inner cities?
At times I feel like crying. I did the other day when I met a railway...
Rail 914: A crisis like we have never seen before
‘Crisis, what crisis?’ There are many people repeating the words that Jim Callaghan actually never used....
Rail 913: Wrong way to try to prove that rail is safe
Statistics are a big part of my business as a journalist. I love it when I...
The privatisation that never was
Let’s stop pretending that the railways were ever really privatised. When they were broken up into...
Rail 912: Accident highlights new danger for the railways
Of all the headline stories that become the subject of these columns, this is the one...
Rail 911: Warning: cuts ahead
The scene: Waterloo station, on Saturday, the first day of August. Time: noon. I have to...
Treasury draws up cuts plan for the railways
Devastating plans to mothball parts of the railway and drastically reduce services are being considered by...-
Rail 910: the campaign that the rail industry must run to save the railways
It is impossible to exaggerate the extent of the crisis that the railways are facing. Glib...
