Plan for rail improvement
THE railways are booming, with record numbers travelling by train. Amazingly, even through the double dip...
Latest from » Yorkshire Post
-
Virgin lives to fight another day
When FirstGroup was announced as the winner of the West Coast franchise in mid August, this...
Virgin row with FirstGroup highlights franchise process inadequacies
THE wails from Sir Richard Branson over his company’s loss of the West Coast franchise have...
High speed rethink is good politics but still a fantasy
THE coalition Government is learning that being in power is a very different matter to opposition....-
Railways as the weapons of war
RAILWAYS are probably the best loved invention of the modern age. Even in these days of... 
Scrapping new trains may not be bad news
These are strange times on the railways. On the one hand, there is plenty...
Tunnel has not fulfilled its promise
It is 15 years since I shared a train with John Major and various other dignitaries...
Passengers pay price in great railways fiasco
RAIL fares are up again. Amid the chaos of last week, it almost went unreported that...
Higher fares and crowded trains…the dismal future
THE East Coast Main Line, the principal rail route linking Yorkshire to the rest of the...
Are we ready to move out of the slow lane
We love to moan about the awfulness of our transport system. The roads are full, the...-
We all pay the price as GNER goes off rails
THE decline of GNER, one of Britain’s best rail companies, into near bankruptcy is an indictment...
