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...
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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...-
Forgotten Children – the background to the children’s homes scandals
In the 1970s and 1980s, an epidemic of abuse swept through Britain’s children’s homes. More than... -
Rail 393: Will the fuel furore backfire on rail investment plans?
The Great Millennium Fuel Crisis was hailed by the media as a bonanza for rail. There... -
Rail 392: Industry, Whitehall and courts must act to vanquish vandals
With three incidents involving vandal damage to trains every day, a catastrophe is in the making... 
Rail 391: Two-nil to the incumbents, but the game has just started
The new Midland Mainline and Chiltern franchise deals are replete with welcome promises of badlyneeded investment...-
Rail 390: Rail must offer all-inclusive package for a new century
The early railways were vehicles for helping cement the different strata of society into a cohesive... 
Rail 389: A fabulous pot of gold at the end of the railway’s rainbow
The cash bonanza announced for the railway last month provides a unique opportunity to create a...
Rail 388: SRA must have a destination before starting the journey
Despite the pitfalls of making predictions about the railway industry, the Strategic Rail Authority should not...-
Rail 387: SRA finally exerts muscle for the good of Britain’s railfreight
The railfreight industry has, for too long, been overshadowed by the cash cow express passenger business,... -
Rail 386: Heads, the private operators win; tails, the taxpayer loses
Privatisation was supposed to switch the risks of rail operation to the private sector. While the... 
Rail 385: The summit of pointlessness predictability and poor timing
The Government’s latest rail summit received scant coverage in the non-specialist media – and that was...
