Rail Magazine

The cost of finishing HS2 between Birmingham Curzon Street and  Old Oak Common has soared to £81 bn (at 2019 ...

Standing in a monster queue at Paris Gare du Nord a couple of weeks ago got me ranting again about ...

Spending a week touring round China on the high speed rail network and being shown round the huge factories which ...

In a couple of years’ time, a new organisation, Great British Railways, will employ some 110.000 people and run much, ...

In all the fuss about the future structure of the railways, there’s a rather big elephant in the room that ...

Consultation papers are, by their very nature, rather dishonest exercises. They set out a series of ideas which are supposedly ...

I am a member of the Labour party. Indeed, I was a parliamentary candidate in a by election in 2016 ...

A feeling of gloom has descended on the whole country, like one of the smogs which I am old enough ...

The privatised train companies made a mistake by taking a hardline in relation to Labour’s plans to bring back operations ...

For the second time this decade, we have had three transport secretaries in a year, emphasising how this is a ...

The control centre of the Shinkansen, the world’s first high speed railway, is surprisingly low tech. The display of the ...

Change is the watchword of the new government. At the recent Labour conference in Liverpool, the words ‘change begins’ were ...

Of the many issues facing the Labour government’s transport team, the least discussed has been the future of HS2. Louise ...

How many bills does it need to sort out the railways? Well, as we now know, there are two on ...

One of the strangest aspects of the current structure of the railway industry is that there are already four train ...

  One of the worst ideas of the previous transport secretary, the egregious Mark Harper who seemed to care less ...

So there is a plan. A cunning plan, indeed, but a complicated one. Remarkably, in the King’s Speech there were ...

There was no shortage of dropped jaws when news about the appointment of the recently ennobled Peter Hendy as rail ...

What now? Despite the length of the hustings, none of the questions about the future of the industry have been ...

The transport content of the Labour manifesto was thin gruel. That was to be expected. Anyone who was hoping for ...