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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rail 991: HS2 engineering marvel but….
Gosh I wish I could love HS2. Life would be easier and I would not suffer the opprobrium I get ...
Rail 990: Leaderless and rudderless, hapless Harper and his Merriman
August is always a good excuse for inaction but this dying Tory administration has taken it to extremes. The railways ...
