2 January 5, 2013Plan for rail improvementTHE railways are booming, with record numbers travelling by train. Amazingly, even through the double dip...
4 October 4, 2012Virgin lives to fight another dayWhen FirstGroup was announced as the winner of the West Coast franchise in mid August, this...
8 September 1, 2012Virgin row with FirstGroup highlights franchise process inadequaciesTHE wails from Sir Richard Branson over his company’s loss of the West Coast franchise have...
68 October 5, 2010High speed rethink is good politics but still a fantasyTHE coalition Government is learning that being in power is a very different matter to opposition....
4 September 30, 2010Railways as the weapons of warRAILWAYS are probably the best loved invention of the modern age. Even in these days of...
14 March 1, 2010Scrapping new trains may not be bad news These are strange times on the railways. On the one hand, there is plenty...
4 May 26, 2009Tunnel has not fulfilled its promiseIt is 15 years since I shared a train with John Major and various other dignitaries...
0 January 8, 2008Passengers pay price in great railways fiascoRAIL fares are up again. Amid the chaos of last week, it almost went unreported that...
0 July 11, 2007Higher fares and crowded trains…the dismal futureTHE East Coast Main Line, the principal rail route linking Yorkshire to the rest of the...
0 January 4, 2007Are we ready to move out of the slow laneWe love to moan about the awfulness of our transport system. The roads are full, the...
0 October 20, 2006We all pay the price as GNER goes off railsTHE decline of GNER, one of Britain’s best rail companies, into near bankruptcy is an indictment...