3 November 14, 2013Fares review dodges the big issuesIt was never going to be easy sorting out the chaotic fares structure. Simplification, standardisation, information,...
10 August 17, 2013Rail accidents must be put in perspectiveAs a result of the spate of four accidents on the railways across the world in...
0 June 17, 2013Rolling stock complexity is unnecessaryThe most obviously scandalous aspect of the whole rail privatisation fiasco have tended to be over...
1 May 31, 2013Decision over East Coast is pure politicsRail privatisation was supposed to have taken the politics out of the railways. Well, that was...
6 March 1, 2013London is booming but needs a transport rethinkLondon is a booming city and it’s going to get better. Successive governments have been accused...
0 January 11, 2013Public bad, private good – or is it the other way around?In his George Bradshaw lecture given at the Institution of Civil Engineers in October, Tim O’Toole,...
3 October 15, 2012West Coast franchising chaos has its roots in historyThe West Coast fiasco would have been rejected as a script for the political satire show,...
1 September 1, 2012Railways have cause to celebrate over investment plans and OlympicsThere is much cause to celebrate in the rail industry. The Olympics were an amazing triumph...
3 June 30, 2012The chaos of the fares systemEveryone knows that the fares system is a complete mess. No other product has such a...
1 April 20, 2012Command Paper misses the pointThe government’s Command Paper, Reforming our Railways: Putting the Customer First, which was finally published in...
5 March 1, 2012Alliances: integration or dismemberment?‘The Times they are a’changin’, but no one quite knows how. The ‘Command Paper’ which was...
4 December 6, 2011Can Greening cope with big rail agenda for New YearJustine Greening has kept a very low profile since being thrust unexpectedly into the transport secretary’s...
11 March 31, 2011Train operators seem to revel in making life difficultTrain travel is becoming more of a hassle almost daily and much of it is down...
4 January 15, 2011Coalition attitude to rail still unclearIt is easy to make heroic statements at the beginning of a new year about this...
0 November 22, 2010Hammond delivers for rail The predictions that the Comprehensive Spending Review would be a disaster for the rail industry...