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Rail 1013: Labour dilemma for the train companies
What now? Despite the length of the hustings, none of the questions about the future of the industry have been ...
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Rail 1012: Labour holds its cards to its chest on rail
The transport content of the Labour manifesto was thin gruel. That was to be expected. Anyone who was hoping for ...
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Rail 1011: Change or no change? Lessons from history
And so that’s it. There will be change, perhaps total upheaval, of the rail system after 14 years of Conservative ...
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Rail 1010: Birmingham’s love affair with HS2 bears fruit
If there is one place in the world where HS2 is loved, it is Birmingham. The outgoing mayor of West ...
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Rail 1009: Labour fudges its rail plans
It’s taken longer than getting a 100 year old locomotive into steam, but at last the Labour party has produced ...
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Rail 1008: The dilemma over Great British Railways
As we approach the sixth anniversary of the timetable chaos that triggered off the restructuring of the railways, we are ...
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Rail 1007: How railways still win wars
Two articles in national newspapers at the beginning of this month have highlighted the importance of a little understood aspect ...
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Rail 1006: What do we want from the railways?
In my youth I would go on demonstrations and sometimes wonder whether I really supported the cause we were protesting ...
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Rail 1005: Rail reform process slammed by National Audit Office
One day I hope to be able to write up a report from a government agency highlighting the success of ...
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Rail 1004: Rail reform bill stutters out
So after five years or the operation of around 36 million train services, the Government has managed to produce a ...
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Rail 1003: The HS2 black hole and hyped to oblivion
I’ve seen many damning reports by various Parliamentary committees and agencies such as the National Audit Office over the years, ...
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Rail 1002: The fares fiasco just got worse
There are times when I need three or four columns to adequately comment on what is happening in the rail ...
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Rail 1001: What Labour should and should not do
The draft rail reform bill seems to have been stuck in the wastes of Whitehall. The Transport Secretary Mark Harper ...
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Rail 1000: a look at a quarter of a century of Rail columns
Unlike some of the contributors to this momentous issue, I was not there at the beginning but I have written ...
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Rail 999: The failure of Eurotunnel and Mystic Wolmar tries again
It is 30 years since I had a chat with John Major in the bowels of a freight Shuttle hurtling ...
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Rail 998: Great British Railways is a lost cause
It has been clear for a long time that the proposed legislation for the railways which would formally create ...
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Rail 997: Deutsche Bahn is still great despite failings
Needing to go to Munich to record a TV interview, I decided to go by train, Munich, at the southern ...
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Rail 995: Lots of factories but no orders
A new train production plant is to be opened by Siemens in Goole, east Yorkshire, next May, to produce, initially, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...