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Here we go again. A review is in the offing. They may not have the frequency of buses but they ...

I had been expecting an announcement delaying Crossrail for some time. As I am writing a book about the project, ...

Dear Andrew, Congratulations on taking on a very difficult job. I am genuinely delighted that at last someone who knows ...

‘This is the story of how to mess up a branch line’ said Alan Noble of the Lakes Line Rail ...

Things are getting worse. The railway is haemorrhaging passengers and the train companies, not surprisingly, are a dither. Talking to ...

Is it time for another Wolmar question since ‘what is franchising for?’ will, I reckon, soon become redundant as the ...

Business is finally stirring over Brexit. I have long been bemused by the failure of the CBI and other business ...

Here’s a good start. I agree with Nigel Harris. He was right to say that this is the biggest crisis ...

Readers, just allow me a little gloat. A short one, I promise, but indulge me. For more than a decade ...

There is a constant refrain from my conversations with people in the railway industry managers or frontline staff about how ...

  I have had lots of responses from readers about my article in Rail 849 about Network Rail selling off ...

One can almost hear the tunes of the Peter, Paul and Mary song: ‘Where have all the passengers gone? Long ...

In writing my book on the story of Crossrail, my interviews with senior managers as well as the planners who ...

When Peter Hendy, the chairman of Network Rail, produced his review into railway overspending two years ago, he blithely recommended ...

One of the great mysteries of the current structure of the railways is why does every piece of work, whether ...

With Labour trying to work out its plans for renationalisation and the current system in a state of uncertainty given ...

A few weeks ago I wrote that Scotland is very different from the rest of the UK in terms of ...

Sometimes I could do with a twice weekly column to cover the rail industry properly, rather than one very two ...

Network Rail is changing. It has to. The national rail infrastructure company has had a rough few years with overspending ...

The clamour for Mystic Wolmar to get out of the prediction business grows louder every year, but actually, while he ...