Write away – the story of my books
I have written more than a dozen books on the railways. And unusually among railway authors, I make my living from them, earning enough from […]
I have written more than a dozen books on the railways. And unusually among railway authors, I make my living from them, earning enough from […]
The draft rail reform bill seems to have been stuck in the wastes of Whitehall. The Transport Secretary Mark Harper has admitted that there are
Unlike some of the contributors to this momentous issue, I was not there at the beginning but I have written this column for almost
Rail 1000: a look at a quarter of a century of Rail columns Read More »
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the opening of the Channel tunnel, Britain’s first fixed connection to the European mainland since the Channel washed
It is 30 years since I had a chat with John Major in the bowels of a freight Shuttle hurtling under the Channel on the
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It has been clear for a long time that the proposed legislation for the railways which would formally create Great British Railways was not
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Developing driverless cars has been AI’s greatest test. And it has failed miserably, despite the expenditure of tens of billions of dollars in attempts to
A small correction to Emma Duncan’s apposite and timely piece on the railways (Comment, December 2). British Rail was not a failed organisation. Quite the
Needing to go to Munich to record a TV interview, I decided to go by train, Munich, at the southern border of Germany is around
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