Rail Magazine

One of the strangest aspects of the current structure of the railway industry is that there are already four train ...

  One of the worst ideas of the previous transport secretary, the egregious Mark Harper who seemed to care less ...

So there is a plan. A cunning plan, indeed, but a complicated one. Remarkably, in the King’s Speech there were ...

There was no shortage of dropped jaws when news about the appointment of the recently ennobled Peter Hendy as rail ...

What now? Despite the length of the hustings, none of the questions about the future of the industry have been ...

The transport content of the Labour manifesto was thin gruel. That was to be expected. Anyone who was hoping for ...

And so that’s it. There will be change, perhaps total upheaval, of the rail system after 14 years of Conservative ...

If there is one place in the world where HS2 is loved, it is Birmingham. The outgoing mayor of West ...

It’s taken longer than getting a 100 year old locomotive into steam, but at last the Labour party has produced ...

As we approach the sixth anniversary of the timetable chaos that triggered off the restructuring of the railways, we are ...

Two articles in national newspapers at the beginning of this month have highlighted the importance of a little understood aspect ...

In my youth I would go on demonstrations and sometimes wonder whether I  really supported the cause we were protesting ...

One day I hope to be able to write up a report from a government agency highlighting the success of ...

So after five years or the operation of around 36 million train services, the Government has managed to produce a ...

I’ve seen many damning reports by various Parliamentary committees and agencies such as the National Audit Office over the years, ...

There are times when I need three or four columns to adequately comment on what is happening in the rail ...

The draft rail reform bill seems to have been stuck in the wastes of Whitehall. The Transport Secretary Mark Harper ...

Unlike some of the contributors to this momentous issue, I was not there at the beginning but I have written ...

It is 30 years since I had a chat with John Major in the bowels of a freight Shuttle hurtling ...

  It has been clear for a long time that the proposed legislation for the railways which would formally create ...