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Rail 942: A big test for the Levelling Up agenda
‘Levelling up’ is the big idea following on from other memorable catch phrases like ‘hug a hoodie’ and the Big ...
Rail 941: The damaging war between London and the government
I love London, my home town and one of the great cities of the world. It is a much kinder ...
Rail 940: Does HS2 fit with the decarbonising agenda?
The government’s decarbonisation policy document is a constipated effort, blood out of stone from reluctant politicians after much delay. It ...
Rail 939: Crossrail’s long journey is almost over
It’s gone quiet on Crossrail recently, and they like it like that. No news is good news because the past ...
Rail 938: The unanswered questions over the Croydon tram disaster
For more than a century and a half, rail safety has improved thanks to learning from the causes of past ...
Rail 937: New station, old timetable
There seems to be a bit of a pattern to my summer writings in my attempt to keep away from ...
Rail 936: Louth, a gem hidden from the railway
I know I really ought to write about all the very important things going on in the railway. There’s no ...
Rail 935: Can Network Rail be tamed?
The story of the next couple of years in the rail industry will be how to tame the elephant in ...
Rail 934: A bridge over troubled concrete
Over the years, as a journalist, I have occasionally come across stories that simply do not make sense. Brexit is ...
Rail 933: 10 questions about Williams Shapps report
There is no doubt that the Williams Shapps report could have been a lot worse. There is undoubtedly a strong ...
Rail 932: Great? New plan for railways falls short
If you want to understand the intentions behind the Government’s White Paper heralding the arrival of Great British Railways, look ...
Rail 931: British government should participate in the Eurostar rescue
When people suggest to me that it would be best if politics were left out of the railways, I always ...
Rail 930: Let’s stop pretending you can impose capitalism on the railways
We are entering a period of Big Government. Indeed, we have been in one for the past year. Neoliberalism is ...
Rail 929: WISPer it, the 30 year plan for the railways
Just in case there were not enough ‘initiatives’ being launched by his department, Grant Shapps, the transport secretary decided a ...
Rail 928: It’s the passengers who count
The future of rail has been rather a long time coming. The report on ‘Trains fit for the future’ published ...
rail 926: Integrated transport, an old concept that must be revived
Remember ‘integrated transport’. It was a concept promoted by John Prescott, the much underrated transport secretary whose excellent 10 year ...
Rail 925: Franchising on life support
After a year of paralysis in the rail industry, there finally appears to be some movement from the Department for ...
Rail 924: The robots are not coming that fast
In the midst of all the chaos and uncertainty on the railways caused by the pandemic, it is surprising that ...
Rail 923: In a logical world, peak fares would be abolished but….
One clear result of the Covid crisis is that we have to recognise that moving around more is not necessarily ...
Rail 922: How to recreate a joined-up railway
In recent weeks I have interviewed numerous ex-BR managers for my new book which is about the successes and failures ...
