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Rail 994: Tories step over the line
Regular readers will know that I am a Labour supporter but my political allegiance has nothing to do with the ...

Rail 992: Oh so you want to buy a ticket? Not here guv
‘How on earth did we get here? I wake up at night wondering what they were thinking’ – that was ...

Rail 991: HS2 engineering marvel but….
Gosh I wish I could love HS2. Life would be easier and I would not suffer the opprobrium I get ...

Rail 990: Leaderless and rudderless, hapless Harper and his Merriman
August is always a good excuse for inaction but this dying Tory administration has taken it to extremes. The railways ...

Rail 989: The railways in limbo and TFL needs to step up
The suspension of politics for the summer has left the railways in limbo. We have a zombie government eeking out ...

Rail 988: ticket office madness
There is foolishness, insanity and utter and complete madness. It is difficult to characterise the announcement on the closure of ...

Rail 987: Wins and losses on the Great Western
There is nothing like a cab ride to learn about the state of the railway and there are few companions ...

Rail 986: The unsung railway heroes of WW2
Time for a summer diversion away from the hubbub of rail chaos and government indecision, to which I will doubtless ...

Rail 985: Crisis, what crisis?
When the new ministerial team at the Department for Transport took over after the brief interlude of the Truss premiership, ...

Rail 984: Reluctant renationalisation
Well here’s an apparent paradox. The Conservative Secretary of State for Transport, Mark Harper has decided to effectively renationalise TransPennineExpress ...

Rail 983: Great British Railways pulled out of the hat?
There’s a bit of magic about Great British Railways. First it appeared out of the hat as a typical bit ...

Rail 982: Should HS2 be saved or scrapped?
I do not want to get into a ding dong over HS2 with my esteemed editor Nigel Harris and other ...

Rail 981: The missing transport policy
There was, once upon a time, the concept of a transport policy. Actually, as I wrote in my short book, ...

Rail 980: HS2 on the brink
Euston is currently a disaster zone – in every sense. I admit this is a subjective view as I live ...

Rail 979: Could a Cyber attack stop Britain’s railways?
Never let the facts get in the way of a good story. That’s an old adage of some tabloid newspapers ...

Rail 978: Labour’s plans for the railways are…
Masked by Keir Starmer’s speech setting out his plans for a Labour government, on the same day there was a ...

Rail 977: Sandwich joke masks thin gruel
Perhaps it shouldn’t matter. Mark Harper, in his keynote speech, went for that old trope of mentioning British Rail sandwiches ...

Rail 976: Eurostar contradictions
We live in strange, indeed confusing times. In the wider political economy, we have a Chancellor of the Exchequer who ...

Rail 975: The secret negotiations over rail reform
So what is happening in the Department for Transport while the railways steadily fall apart before our eyes to the ...

Rail 974: Optimism hard to find; and rail’s big man
Of necessity, a New Year requires a modicum of optimism. Having done 50 or more media interviews over the past ...