The Telegraph
The vulnerability of French railways
In France, as elsewhere, the railways have always been an easy target for criminals, saboteurs, terrorists and other miscreants. It's ...
Spitfire crash does not mean the end of the WW2 plane
The Spitfire crash in Lincolnshire on May 25th could not have happened at a worst time. Every available World War ...
Daily Telegraph review: Cathedrals of Steam:
By Christopher Howse In Cousin Chatterbox’s Railway Alphabet it says: “A is the Arch, which you see when you start,/ ...
Cutting transport carbon is a big ask
The transport industry is at the heart of economic activity but its heavy use of carbon has put the ...
Is reopening Beeching lines the way forward?
This is the new age of the train. The railways had a generally bad 20th century, being outfought and ultimately ...
Judith Flanders reviews Fire and Steam
Two kinds of history are especially difficult to write. There are those whose subjects have almost no source material (biographies ...