0 February 5, 2021Rail 924: The robots are not coming that fastIn the midst of all the chaos and uncertainty on the railways caused by the pandemic,...
0 January 21, 2021Rail 923: In a logical world, peak fares would be abolished but….One clear result of the Covid crisis is that we have to recognise that moving around...
0 January 7, 2021Rail 922: How to recreate a joined-up railwayIn recent weeks I have interviewed numerous ex-BR managers for my new book which is about...
0 December 23, 2020Rail 921: The railways must adapt to surviveWell not even Mystic Wolmar if he were a genius could have predicted the events of...
0 December 8, 2020Rail 920: ORR focus on little used stations is an own goalLots of fun has been had over the past couple of weeks with Berney Arms, an...
0 November 29, 2020Rail 919: Welsh report shows that building roads is not the only or best optionEver since the creation of a ministry of transport, just over a century ago, there has...
0 November 14, 2020Rail 918: Why rail replacement services are so dreadful If there’s one phrase that deters people from trying to take a train, it is...
0 October 30, 2020Rail 917: Network Rail’s not invented here syndromeNetwork Rail has rediscovered research. One of the great losses to the industry at privatisation was...
0 October 15, 2020Rail 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...
0 October 6, 2020Rail 915: So what were franchises for?So what were they for? The question ‘what is franchising for?’ which I have been asking...
0 September 24, 2020Rail 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....
0 September 10, 2020Rail 913: Wrong way to try to prove that rail is safeStatistics are a big part of my business as a journalist. I love it when I...
0 August 28, 2020Rail 912: Accident highlights new danger for the railwaysOf all the headline stories that become the subject of these columns, this is the one...
0 August 10, 2020Rail 911: Warning: cuts aheadThe scene: Waterloo station, on Saturday, the first day of August. Time: noon. I have to...
0 August 10, 2020Treasury draws up cuts plan for the railwaysDevastating plans to mothball parts of the railway and drastically reduce services are being considered by...