Rail Magazine

Never in the history of the railway has its future depended so critically on the views of two outsiders, Lord ...

The Great Millennium Fuel Crisis was hailed by the media as a bonanza for rail. There certainly was an increase ...

With three incidents involving vandal damage to trains every day, a catastrophe is in the making on the railway. CHRISTIAN ...

The new Midland Mainline and Chiltern franchise deals are replete with welcome promises of badlyneeded investment that will have sent ...

The early railways were vehicles for helping cement the different strata of society into a cohesive whole. But today it’s ...

The cash bonanza announced for the railway last month provides a unique opportunity to create a network fit for the ...

Despite the pitfalls of making predictions about the railway industry, the Strategic Rail Authority should not be renewing franchises without ...

The railfreight industry has, for too long, been overshadowed by the cash cow express passenger business, which calls the agenda ...

Privatisation was supposed to switch the risks of rail operation to the private sector. While the profits have been transferred, ...

The Government’s latest rail summit received scant coverage in the non-specialist media - and that was no surprise. What was ...

When the rump of British Rail quietly restarted land and property sales last autumn, it provoked uproar from the rail ...