Rail Magazine

Regular readers will know that I am a Labour supporter but my political allegiance has nothing to do with the ...

‘How on earth did we get here? I wake up at night wondering what they were thinking’ – that was ...

Gosh I wish I could love HS2. Life would be easier and I would not suffer the opprobrium I get ...

August is always a good excuse for inaction but this dying Tory administration has taken it to extremes. The railways ...

The suspension of politics for the summer has left the railways in limbo. We have a zombie government eeking out ...

There is foolishness, insanity and utter and complete madness. It is difficult to characterise the announcement on the closure of ...

There is nothing like a cab ride to learn about the state of the railway and there are few companions ...

Time for a summer diversion away from the hubbub of rail chaos and government indecision, to which I will doubtless ...

When the new ministerial team at the Department for Transport took over after the brief interlude of the Truss premiership, ...

Well here’s an apparent paradox. The Conservative Secretary of State for Transport, Mark Harper has decided to effectively renationalise TransPennineExpress ...

There’s a bit of magic about Great British Railways. First it appeared out of the hat as a typical bit ...

I do not want to get into a ding dong over HS2 with my esteemed editor Nigel Harris and other ...

There was, once upon a time, the concept of a transport policy. Actually, as I wrote in my short book, ...

Euston is currently a disaster zone – in every sense. I admit this is a subjective view as I live ...

Never let the facts get in the way of a good story. That’s an old adage of some tabloid newspapers ...

Masked by Keir Starmer’s speech setting out his plans for a Labour government, on the same day there was a ...

Perhaps it shouldn’t matter. Mark Harper, in his keynote speech, went for that old trope of mentioning British Rail sandwiches ...

We live in strange, indeed confusing times. In the wider political economy, we have a Chancellor of the Exchequer who ...

So what is happening in the Department for Transport while the railways steadily fall apart before our eyes to the ...

Of necessity, a New Year requires a modicum of optimism. Having done 50 or more media interviews over the past ...