Rail 408: Central Railway: a big idea that could even be beautiful
After all the navel-gazing of the past six months, it’s time to raise our sights and...
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Rail 407: Two not-so-wise men follow a very bright but illusory star
By playing to the tabloid gallery, the two distinguished authors of the report on train protection... -
Rail 406: The core question of the rail crisis – what is Railtrack for?
Railtrack is a paradox: a capitalist company without a definable product. Based on such a false... -
Rail 405: SRA has failed to deliver the goods – a real vision for rail
The concept of the Strategic Rail Authority was a good one, which had the potential to... -
Rail 404: A creaking structure badly in need of major rebuilding…
Privatisation, we were promised, would lever in record levels of private investment to the railway industry,... -
Q&A: Selby train crash
Railway expert Christian Wolmar answers our questions following the collision near Selby in North Yorkshire in... -
Rail 403: Competition is weaving a tangled web on ticket sales
With 2.3 million registered users, thetrainline. com has been one of the quiet success stories of... -
Rail 402: Dithering SRA could delegate franchise decisions to judges
By failing to lay down proper ground rules for the refranchising process, CHRISTIAN WOLMAR believes that... -
Rail 401: HSE ignores the interlocking causes of Ladbroke Grove
The Health & Safety Executive’s report on the Ladbroke Grove inquiry was supposed to be a... -
Rail 400: Recovery not on the cards without a national railcard
When the railway launches its great marketing effort to win back lost passengers after the crisis,... -
Rail 399: This crisis won’t be calmed simply by soothing words
Railway pundits are split into two antagonistic camps – optimists who believe the crisis will all... -
Rail 398: No one – and everyone – to blame for rail’s ‘Troubles’
All the major players in the railway – the Government, operators, Railtrack, SRA and HSE –... -
Rail 397: Gerald jumped before he was pushed back into the abyss
The reasons given by Gerald Corbett for his departure from Railtrack were accurate – but they... -
Rail 395: It would be madness to set this flawed system in stone
There was a depressing sense of deja-vu about the scenes at Hatfield in the wake of... -
Rail 394: Cool heads should outweigh emotions in the ATP debate
Never in the history of the railway has its future depended so critically on the views...
