Rail 849: Another potential rail scandal as short-termism wins out again
When Peter Hendy, the chairman of Network Rail, produced his review into railway overspending two years...
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Rail 848: The scams that cost the railway dear
One of the great mysteries of the current structure of the railways is why does every...
Rail 847: Get the Department out of the rail business
With Labour trying to work out its plans for renationalisation and the current system in a...
Rail 846: Wales – where the railways really matter
A few weeks ago I wrote that Scotland is very different from the rest of the...
Rail 845: Does Carillion collapse mark beginning of end for outsourcing?
Sometimes I could do with a twice weekly column to cover the rail industry properly, rather...-
Rail 844: Mark Carne defends Network Rail’s record
Network Rail is changing. It has to. The national rail infrastructure company has had a... -
Rail 843: Dark clouds over the rails for 2018
The clamour for Mystic Wolmar to get out of the prediction business grows louder every year,... 
Rail 842: The non-strategic strategy
Chris Grayling’s spin doctors deserve a big fat Christmas bonus. It was ever so clever merging...
Rail 841: Scotland alliance working well
Scotland is different. And is becoming more so, given the continued dominance of the SNP and...
Rail 839: Sense of injustice in the North
Trouble is brewing in the provinces. The sense of anger about the imbalance between spending on...
Rail 838: Is £48bn too good to be true?
When the announcement that the railways would receive £48bn worth of investment in operations, maintenance and...
Rail 837: Rail’s dirty secret
When I was campaigning to be the Labour candidate for London mayor a couple of years...-
Rail 836: Network Rail’s private obsession is the wrong track
It is sometimes difficult to understand what Network Rail is playing at. The organisation is beset... 
Rail 835: Open those lines!
‘Why don’t they reopen those lines closed by Beeching’ is a constant refrain on radio...-
Rail 834: Fares need to be made fairer
The annual collective moan about rail fares has just started. The complainants against these rises have...
