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Rail 507: The journey from SRA to Sir Humphrey may not be seamless
Many industry figures remain unconvinced that the transfer of SRA functions to Whitehall will be as smooth as senior civil ...
Rail 506: Pretence of a ‘private’ NR costs rail industry dear
The Treasury was infuriated by Tom Winsor’s largesse towards Network Rail, now on course for a big underspend. CHRISTIAN WOLMAR ...
Rail 505: It’s busy routes not just the branches in the firing line
The furore over claims of a ‘Beeching 2’ for branches is obscuring the real risk faced by heavily used main ...
Rail 504: South East rail rows show ministers’ failure on capacity
Proposals to scrap Gatwick Express, and for a new Superlink scheme to rival Crossrail, are both symptoms of the government’s ...
Rail 503: Privatisation’s union-bashing agenda has backfired
An unspoken aim of privatisation was to curb the power of the unions, but instead it has strengthened the hand ...
Rail 502: Review comes in with a bang but out with a whimper
The Railways Bill fails to tackle the real questions at the core of the privatised industry. CHRISTIAN WOLMAR believes the ...
Rail 501: Highway chiefs shirk duties where roads meet rail
The media coverage of the Berkshire train crash was remarkably restrained. There have been few calls for radical improvements in ...
Rail 500: Why London deserves the lion’s share of rail capital
Interesting things are afoot in the rail industry - both in terms of new projects and of experiments in new ...
Rail 499: ‘Woe-mar’: ‘WCML is great – just don’t let me down!’
Virgin’s Chris Green has accused CHRISTIAN WOLMAR of being churlish in his reaction to launch of the new West Coast ...
Rail 498: Could SET set the scene for publicly run Kent franchise?
At a Labour conference fringe meeting, Transport Secretary Alistair Darling appeared to hint to CHRISTIAN WOLMAR that the Integrated Kent ...
Rail 497: A ‘Revolution’ that leaves the railway in the red
The Prime Minister’s brief appearance at the launch of the WCML Pendolino service could be a sign of his exasperation ...
Rail 496: How the Curse of the SRA claimed two high casualties
The government set up the SRA as a quasi-independent body, but whenever its chairmen tried to exercise that independence, they ...
Rail 495: The franchise merry-go-round
So the merry go round continues. FirstGroup is awarded the Scotrail franchise although it was not deemed good enough to ...
Rail 494: Class of 2004 is improving – but still must try harder
In his annual report on the performance of pupils in the railway school, headmaster CHRISTIAN WOLMAR reflects on a year ...
Rail 493: Review couples too much caution with too little clarity
So what was it all about? Tom Winsor didn’t want it, Richard Bowker has been bumped off by it and ...
Rail 492: Darling’s review: change here for a simpler railway system
Britain’s privatised railway is often said to be in a constant state of change. The reality, however, is that the ...
Rail 491: Rail the loser as bosses play ‘let’s pretend’ game
Privatised railway chiefs like to portray themselves as buccaneering capitalists in a risk-taking industry but the reality, as CHRISTIAN WOLMAR ...
Rail 490: Darling won’t put weedkiller on nettle strangling railway
According to a summary of the draft rail review leaked to CHRISTIAN WOLMAR, the Government proposes a patch-up, with all ...
Rail 489: Winsorworld… we’re the fools and the contract is king
As Tom Winsor prepares to return to a highly-paid job in the City, CHRISTIAN WOLMAR wonders whether the last true ...
Rail 488: UK should emulate Australian example of rail integration
Britain pioneered the ill-starred global reform of the railways in the 1990s. Back from addressing a conference in Australia, CHRISTIAN ...
