Rail Magazine
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Rail 799: Devolution OK, but how and where?
Devolution is spreading. It has become the new shibboleth, an old concept that has been revived and now has become ...
Rail 798: little schemes better than big ones
The London mayoral hustings are in full flow with the two main contenders, Labour’s Sadiq Khan and Zac Goldsmith for ...
Rail 797: Shaw goes for devolution, not revolution
When I previewed the Shaw report back in December (Rail 788), I praised its author, Nicola Shaw, as an extremely ...
Rail 796: Melbourne’s familiar problems on the tracks
Spending a week in Melbourne ended up being a trip in to the past. Melbourne has a very British feel, ...
Rail 795: Indian railways: an experience not to be missed
Having just spent a couple of weeks touring India by rail for my forthcoming book on Indian railways, I can’t ...
Rail 794: Lincolnshire deserves better, and so do disabled people
When I were a lad, I used to get taken to stay with relatives near Louth in Lincolnshire. Those trips ...
Rail 793:the importance of being political
If this column had developed a motto during its 21 years of existence, it would be something like ‘politics prevails’ ...
Rail 792: The vulnerability of the railway must be addressed
For the past couple of months, I’ve been trying to get up to Scotland to compare the two contrasting Virgin ...
Rail 791: Network Rail smoke and mirrors – and predictions for 2016
I sent out a tweet the other day when it was revealed that the Scottish government’s debt was at risk ...
Rail 790: Northern’s new leaf
The new Northern franchise represents a shift in thinking about the railways in the North. The old franchise was based ...
Rail 789: Voodoo economics and driverless car myths
Railway economics always smacks of smoke and mirrors. However, the report by Peter Hendy on the investment programme is more ...
Rail 788: Shaw sets out problems, but solutions will be harder to find
Nicola Shaw is one of those highly intelligent people who does not have to show it on every occasion. She ...
Rail 787: Heathrow Express and Crossrail – the need for a fat controller
This is a story of how the railway gets into a mess because of the plethora of stakeholders, confusion about ...
Rail 786: Was HS1 such a good deal?
The civil service tradition of burying bad news was in evidence on October 15 when it published a report on ...
Rail 785: Who runs the railway?
Well this is fun. We have just learnt that when the Department said it was pausing – rather than cancelling ...
Rail 784: The modern railway should not be destroying its heritage
At the National Rail Awards, Nigel Harris, my esteemed editor, made great play of the history of the railways, referring ...
Rail 783: Renationalisation is a long term aspiration
By the time you read this, we will know who is the new leader of the Labour party. Mystic Wolmar ...
Rail 782: Trouble at Euston … and on Virgin
Now that HS2 is getting down to the nitty-gritty, the problems multiply and the decisions made far too early in ...
Rail 781: Borders line is an unexpected reopening
On September 6, the most remarkable reopening of a Beeching closed line will take place. The 30 mile long Borders ...
Rail 780: London mayor needs to control the trains
Over the last three years as a potential mayoral candidate for the 2016 London mayoral election, I have not been ...
