Independent

Looking back from 2014, it seems extraordinary that an organisation with a name like the Paedophile Information Exchange was taken ...
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First they took the trains. Now they want to take the museum that celebrates their invention away. What a way ...
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Yesterday’s meeting between the train operators and transport ministers was the first in what is set to be an elaborate ...
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The strength of the vote against the congestion charge plan in Manchester effectively kills off the government’s strategy of trying ...
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Despite delays, weekend closures and overcrowding, Britons love affair with the railways seems to grow stronger every year. Passenger numbers ...
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Christian Wolmar is becoming something of a national treasure these days. Just like Peter Snow at election time or Patrick ...
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Railways in the 19th century had the transformative effect that the automobile would have in the 20th, and Christian Wolmar ...
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The Train à Grande Vitesse has revolutionised train travel in France. The high speed train service has destroyed much of ...
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The opening, in June, of the TGV Est, France’s fourth high-speed line, will bring a sad casualty in its wake: ...
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Written in muscular, fast-moving prose, this account of the Tube is so packed with surprises and pleasures that it deserves ...
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Subterranean Railway Review Londoners are profoundly ambivalent about the Underground. We dislike it, we mistrust it, but we know we ...
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After all the kafuffle, the rail review is something of a damp squib. It was announced in January by Alistair ...
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Yesterday’s announcement of a rail review marks the first step in the long march towards common sense on the railways ...
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Transport ministers are on the warpath over the railways. Suddenly, the scale of the money pouring into what seems like ...
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