Christian Says

Christian Says

Railway service culture

Railway service culture

Interesting contrast on two journeys recently. On East Coast, a very friendly conductor asked me for my Senior Railcard - ...
Demise of Wrexham Shropshire destroys open access

Demise of Wrexham Shropshire destroys open access

The sudden abandonment of the Wrexham & Shropshire train service, started less than three years ago, is another nail in ...
Crisis response is all about information

Crisis response is all about information

At a very interesting meeting yesterday on crisis management hosted by the Independent Transport Commission, it became obvious that so ...
Rail fares could kill the growth

Rail fares could kill the growth

I have done a couple of  TV interviews on the steep rail fare rises today and it is striking that the ...
More weather again

More weather again

The railways have been doing rather well recently - with the odd exception like the overhead wires coming down on ...
Cycle hire is a public service

Cycle hire is a public service

The biggest cycle hire docking station opened today at Waterloo, with 126 spaces. It will presumably be used by lots ...
Resignation ridicule

Resignation ridicule

So farewell Stewart Stephenson, a man few people had heard of until it snowed and he found himself, as transport ...
The Irish ghost road

The Irish ghost road

Two weeks ago I went to Ireland to speak at a meeting against what seemed like a crazy road scheme, ...
Weather again

Weather again

I've done a couple of interviews on transport chaos caused by the freezing conditions and taken the line that as ...
Is First class redundant?

Is First class redundant?

Peter Preston, a normally utterly impenetrable Guardian columnist, for once makes a good point in today's paper  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/nov/28/travelling-by-train-first-class.  Writing about ...
Rail investment solidifies

Rail investment solidifies

Its a bit late in the day but I have been in Omagh and Alton today, and many points in ...
Railway growth unabated

Railway growth unabated

The fascinating discussion at last night's Institute of Railway Operators meeting focussed largely on the McNulty review and what is ...
Letter from America 3

Letter from America 3

I am now in Baltimore, which I rather like, except  that as with all these big American cities, it is ...
Lessons from Seattle transit system

Lessons from Seattle transit system

The Seattle transit system is excellent and there are lessons for the UK. The frequent buses in the city centre ...
Letter from America, 2

Letter from America, 2

Now in Seattle, and its raining which apparently it does all the time. American railroads are indeed fascinating.  Freight first ...
Letter from America 1

Letter from America 1

Have arrived in the US to go on my big train trip. New York to Pittsburgh today, then Chicago, Seattle, ...
Pointless terror alert

Pointless terror alert

Here  we go again. I'm not generally a conspiracy theorist, but the way that governments around the world deal with ...
Hammond is all politics

Hammond is all politics

Two decisions by Philip Hammond over the past couple of days. First he is apparently going to scrap the bus ...
Cycling England on list of quangos to be abolished

Cycling England on list of quangos to be abolished

The list of quangos to be abolished, leaked to the Daily Telegraph today presumably by a government source, includes Cycling ...
Baker cooked

Baker cooked

I was on the panel of a fringe meeting at the LibDem conference organised by the Association of Train Operating ...
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