Rail Magazine
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Rail 821: Bombardier’s survival was the right kind of politics
There was a moment five years ago when it seemed the UK might end up without any domestic train manufacturing ...
Rail 820: Franchising is the problem, not the solution
In this post-truth age, there are not just the alternative facts put out by the White House. There are also ...
Rail 819: Franchise future in doubt
It is some time since I discussed my oft asked and never answered question of ‘what is franchising for?’ The ...
Rail 818: Network needs to be better informed, not competition
Assessing what might happen in 2017, the only certainty is that it will be ‘interesting’. This made me look up ...
Rail 817: Hitachi trains could be on the slow track
Dear reader – I may bore you at times with my view that the railways are best run as a ...
Rail 816: Stopping London rail devolution is a political act
A decade or so book ago I wrote a book called On the Wrong Line – How Incompetence and Ideology ...
Rail 815: Outsourcing is source of money drain
Network Rail and the rail industry generally have so far escaped rather lightly over the Great Western electrification debacle – ...
Rail 814: It is not only hindsight that made tram crash predictable
2016 has been the year of the unexpected. One cannot blame Mystic Wolmar for just seen a smoky blur in ...
Rail 813: Wales’ bad deal on rail could end
Wales has always had a rather poor deal from the railways. The iron road came late there as shown by ...
Rail 811: Not all technology is the solution
I have long been critical of the tardiness of the railways in adapting to new technology. Sure, a couple of ...
Rail 810: That hungry feeling – travel on a long distance train
I decided to test the competing claims of the East and West Coast line services between London and Scotland in ...
Rail 809: Grayling looks to blue skies
What goes round comes round. Here we go again, with a discussion about vertical integration, the structure of the railways ...
Rail 808: Driverless cars going nowhere soon
Suddenly the driverless car seems like becoming a reality in the very near future. Hardly a day passes without news ...
Rail 807: Who is to blame for the Southern dispute?
It is all too easy to put all the blame on the unions for the disastrous strike on Southern which, ...
Rail 806: The lost hope of integrated transport
Newcastle both gave us the railway and has become utterly dependent on it. The site of Robert Stephenson’s works where ...
Rail 805: the four threats to the future of rail
‘We are waiting for our Railtrack moment, but we are very surprised it has not happened yet’. That was a ...
Rail 804: The Baikal Amur Mainline, a tragic white elephant
I’ve just been on an amazing railway. It stretches across much of a whole and was built at the instigation ...
Rail 803: Transport policy, what transport policy?
Having written about transport policy for more than twenty years, it has become obvious to me that there isn’t one ...
Rail 802: What the EU has done for us
A couple of issues ago, I speculated about the possible impact of Brexit on HS2, suggesting it was probably the ...
Rail 800: HS2 at risk from Brexit
The government’s top civil servant has been quietly looking at the costs of HS2 but there is actually a more ...
