Rail 913: Wrong way to try to prove that rail is safe
Statistics are a big part of my business as a journalist. I love it when I...
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Rail 912: Accident highlights new danger for the railways
Of all the headline stories that become the subject of these columns, this is the one...
Rail 911: The campaign the railways must launch
The scene: Waterloo station, on Saturday, the first day of August. Time: noon. I have to...
Rail 910: the campaign that the rail industry must run to save the railways
It is impossible to exaggerate the extent of the crisis that the railways are facing. Glib...
Rail 909: J’Accuse – the culprits wrecking the rail industry
(With apologies to Émile Zola) A letter to Boris Johnson, Prime Minister Sir Permit me to...
Rail 908: The future is vertical…and the slavery myth
Let’s look to the future for once, given that the present is so bleak. I will...
Rail 907: Muddled policy wrecking the railways
I am at risk of repeating myself. I would love to be writing about something other...-
Rail 906: The railways must stop telling people not to use them
Whatever happened to ALARP? That’s the safety principle by which the railway is supposed to function... 
Rail 905: Risk assessment is key to future of the railways
Boris Johnson’s speech to the nation on Sunday May 10th was rambly, incoherent and he...-
Rail 904: Abnormal, the new normal
We are now in the new normal of empty train stations, reduced timetables and injunctions to... 
Rail 903: The new normal is totally abnormal
As a journalist for nigh on half a century, who has covered all kinds of extraordinary...
Rail 902: The trains must be kept running – even empty
We have found out what living in a sci-fi dystopia is like. Fortunately, the basic services...-
Rail 901: Reaching into the unknown unknowns
Harold Macmillan used to say that what he was most worried about when Prime Minister were... -
Rail 900: Has the franchising question been answered at last?
Things are too busy and exciting in the rail industry to spend the whole of this... 
Rail 899: HS2 arguments are fundamentally dishonest
One day there will be a superb book to be written about the shenanigans over the...
