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...
0 July 28, 2020Rail 910: the campaign that the rail industry must run to save the railwaysIt is impossible to exaggerate the extent of the crisis that the railways are facing. Glib...
0 July 14, 2020Rail 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...
0 July 1, 2020Rail 908: The future is vertical…and the slavery mythLet’s look to the future for once, given that the present is so bleak. I will...
0 June 15, 2020Rail 907: Muddled policy wrecking the railwaysI am at risk of repeating myself. I would love to be writing about something other...