Putting Labour back on track
Christian Wolmar and Neal Lawson argue that Transport Minister Stephen Byers should be backed not sacked...
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Rail 421: We must seize this chance to travel toward railway Nirvana
After analysing the reasons for the collapse of Railtrack in RAIL 420, CHRISTIAN WOLMAR urges the...
The life and death of Railtrack
The British government has dismayed private investors by seizing control of the company set up in...
Rail 420: Why Railtrack’s fall was a revolution waiting to happen
The revolutionaries have triumphed over the evolutionists in the battle over the future structure of the...-
Rail 419: A railway Golden Age that slipped through our fingers
The publication of the Government’s Transport White Paper and its tenyear plan seemed set to usher... -
Rail 418: Safety should be led by the statistics not the editorials
Most of the deaths on the railway last year involved suicides and trespass, not that you’d... 
Rail 417: Calm before the anniversary storm for rattled Railtrack
Despite the abrupt dismissal of Chief Operating Officer Jonson Cox and the ‘new broom’ approach of...
Rail 416: Railway class of 2001: must try harder or face expulsion
As the School for Railway Children breaks up for the summer holidays after a turbulent year,...
Rail 415: Simplifying the structure is how our railways will recover
Railtrack’s collapse, emergency speed restrictions, and soaring costs: the railway is still in crisis. CHRISTIAN WOLMAR...-
Rail 414: Déjà vu for the Underground as ‘unworkable’ PPP goes on
The much-vaunted Public Private Partnership scheme for the London Underground – complete with 30-year contracts for... -
Rail 413: Two parallel rail universes – but can they ever meet?
The railways have long passed the point where simple exhortation to ‘get their act together’ will... 
Rail 412: It is time to inquire into the purpose of these inquiries
Lord Cullen’s Ladbroke Grove inquiry report is well-written and admirably detailed but has major omissions –...-
Rail 411: Memo to new ministers: early action needed on the railway
It’s the day after the general election and an extract from a memo to incoming transport... 
Rail 410: Railtrack is dead – now let’s anoint a real successor
Despite the highly publicised appointment of a new Chairman, Railtrack is effectively a spent force, and...-
Rail 409: A 20-year game of Monopoly that is just one big gamble
Twenty-year franchises are one of the centrepieces of the refranchising process, based on the belief that...
