Rail 916: So that’s why Crossrail was delayed…
Had it not been for the Covid-19 crisis, the further delays and extra costs of the...
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Rail 915: So what were franchises for?
So what were they for? The question ‘what is franchising for?’ which I have been asking...
Rail 914: A crisis like we have never seen before
‘Crisis, what crisis?’ There are many people repeating the words that Jim Callaghan actually never used....
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...
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: Warning: cuts ahead
The scene: Waterloo station, on Saturday, the first day of August. Time: noon. I have to...
Treasury draws up cuts plan for the railways
Devastating plans to mothball parts of the railway and drastically reduce services are being considered by...
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...
