Spectator

British Railways lives again. Well sort of. The Queen’s Speech contains plans for a Transport Bill the centrepiece of which ...
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By Julian Glover I began this book waiting for a diesel train to Derby, under the windy, boxy, flat-roofed bit ...
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Petersfield signal box is in the wrong place. Or at least it is now. Actually, when it was built in ...
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Monisha Rajesh wrote lovingly about the Indian railways in her previous book but this set her wondering whether the train ...
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A couple of weeks ago I met David Grime and Alan Noble, members of the Lakes Line Rail User Group, ...
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I was worried that going to the autonomous vehicle exhibition in Stuttgart would be rather like an atheist walking into ...
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My debate with car enthusiast and advertising man Rory Sutherland Wolmar: Let’s face it: we’re talking about a technology that will ...
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Stations, according to Simon Jenkins, are the forgotten part of the railway experience. People love the trains, the journey, the ...
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Night Trains, the Rise and Fall of the Sleeper by Andrew Martin, Profile Books, £14 99 As a child, I ...
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Simon Bradley dates the demise of the on-board meal service to 1962, when Pullman services no longer offered croutons with ...
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