Rail 876: The long slow death of franchises
The death throes of franchising are not a pretty sight. That the present model is dead...
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Rail 875: Electric is the buzz word
Of all the stupid decisions that successive governments have made about the railways over the past...
Rail 874: Goblin gobbled up
It seemed such a simple job. The Barking – Gospel Oak line was becoming so heavily...
Rail 873: A small step towards sorting out the fares
It is one of the great ironies of rail privatisation that it was supposed to free...
Rail 872: The North needs rail investment
One of the few (only?) good ideas from George Osborne when he was Chancellor was the...
Rail 871: The Crossrail mystery – and how the USA does not understand rail
The awful year in 2018 endured by the railways might have been leavened somewhat had Crossrail...
Rail 870: My letter to Keith Williams on what Rail Review should examine
Dear Keith, I wish you lots of luck in your endeavour to sort out Britain’s...
Rail 869: The railway’s annus horribilis
This has been the railway’s annus horribilis. Nothing may have burnt down but almost everything else...
Rail 868: Wrong trees off the line
Sometimes good results come out of bad decisions. When the now departed Jo ‘Hydrogen’ Johnson announced...-
Rail 867: The truth behind rail’s growth
The doubling of rail passengers since the mid 1990s has been unprecedented and, in many respects,... 
Rail 866: Heathrow railway is best hope for private sector investment but can it be done?
One of the big promises of rail privatisation was that there would be significant private investment...
Rail 865: Jo Johnson goes to Rotherham
It’s only taken a couple of decades or so but UK’s first tram train has become...
Rail 864: How about a transport strategy?
A couple of years ago I wrote a short book entitled ‘Are Trams Socialist?’. Spoiler alert,...-
Rail 863: Will review really be root and branch?
So the review is going to be a ‘root and branch’ examination of the state of... 
Rail 862: Review must be radical
Here we go again. A review is in the offing. They may not have the frequency...
