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Given world events that have managed to put even Partygate on the back burner, it is difficult to focus on ...

For many years, the train operating companies have complained about excessive interference from the Department for Treasury – ooops, sorry, ...

I’m delighted that Grant Shapps is on the case of the incessant noise that ensures there is never any chance ...

Nothing encapsulates the current dilemmas on the railway than the fate of the Marston Vale line which is a 16 ...

Forgive me if I welcome the New Year by letting off a bit of steam (and breaking my rule about ...

In the swathe of reports and events in the past few weeks, one rather important document has been lost. This ...

Imagine a slightly different world. The railways are being run by a rather impressive pair,  Andy, the ambitious and media-savvy ...

The rail collision at Salisbury attracted the usual amount of over the top coverage from the media but that is ...

Promises, promises. There’s quite a lot of them about. The railway structure is to be reformed, some version of British ...

‘Levelling up’ is the big idea following on from other memorable catch phrases like ‘hug a hoodie’ and the Big ...

I love London, my home town and one of the great cities of the world. It is a much kinder ...

The government’s decarbonisation policy document is a constipated effort, blood out of stone from reluctant politicians after much delay. It ...

It’s gone quiet on Crossrail recently, and they like it like that. No news is good news because the past ...

For more than a century and a half, rail safety has improved thanks to learning from the causes of past ...

There seems to be a bit of a pattern to my summer writings in my attempt to keep away from ...

I know I really ought to write about all the very important things going on in the railway. There’s no ...

The story of the next couple of years in the rail industry will be how to tame the elephant in ...

Over the years, as a journalist, I have occasionally come across stories that simply do not make sense. Brexit is ...

There is no doubt that the Williams Shapps report could have been a lot worse. There is undoubtedly a strong ...

If you want to understand the intentions behind the Government’s White Paper heralding the arrival of Great British Railways, look ...