Rail 918: Why rail replacement services are so dreadful
If there’s one phrase that deters people from trying to take a train, it is...
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November newsletter – Covid crisis – and book offers
The second lockdown has just started and I see little way out of this crisis for...
Cathedrals of Steam, the story of London’s terminus stations
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Competition to win a copy of my new book
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Spectator review of Cathedrals of Steam
By Julian Glover I began this book waiting for a diesel train to Derby, under the... 
Rail 917: Network Rail’s not invented here syndrome
Network Rail has rediscovered research. One of the great losses to the industry at privatisation was...
How to address opposition to low traffic neighbourhoods
It has become the biggest transport controversy of the century. Not rail nationalisation, not the £27bn...
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...
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...
