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So what is happening in the Department for Transport while the railways steadily fall apart before our eyes to the ...

Of necessity, a New Year requires a modicum of optimism. Having done 50 or more media interviews over the past ...

This year, to borrow a timely term from our late Queen, has been the annus horribilis for the railways. Just ...

My second favourite statistic uncovered while researching my various books is that British Railways, during its 50 year history, shed ...

Time to take a breather away from the crazy hurly burly of the day to day railway and pause a ...

To say we live in extraordinary times qualifies as understatement of the year. Consider the bald facts that we are ...

(written in October and now already out of date!) At the time of writing, Anne-Marie Trevelyan is transport secretary and ...

(This was written before the Nov 17th announcement which appears to leave much HS2 spending intact though scepticism remains about ...

Great British Railways looks set to be stillborn. All the indications are that the legislation to create it promised by ...

I have been inundated with responses to my column in the last issue bemoaning the fact that levels service are ...

Lady luck has not shone on Richard Hughes-Jones. Well it did at first. As a five year old, he remembers ...

We have to talk about Net Zero. Seriously. And what it really means in terms of transport. The dismal contest ...

Halfway through the launch of Rail Partners, I had one of those jumping out of the bath moments which made ...

When I first started writing this column in the mid 1990s, it had already become pretty clear that the days ...

The government’s consultation paper on the Williams Shapps report published on June 9 mistakenly put the year down as 2021 rather ...

The railways are suffering from a series of intermingled crises and as Nigel Harris argued so cogently in the last ...

The time for carping is over. Let’s for once just celebrate and enjoy some good news. Yes, I know, I ...

In writing this column every fortnight since 1995, I have always questioned the value of privatising an industry that is ...

There’s trouble brewing down the line. Industrial relations trouble, that is. The RMT union has launched a ballot of its ...

Dennis Fancett is a happy man. But he is not totally satisfied, as there are further battles ahead. He has been ...