The long wait for a train…
The new Labour government has cancelled the previous administration’s ‘Restoring Your Railways’ project. This article from 2021 looks at Portishead, where the local council has been working since 2008 to…
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The new Labour government has cancelled the previous administration’s ‘Restoring Your Railways’ project. This article from 2021 looks at Portishead, where the local council has been working since 2008 to…
Never waste a good crisis. And it’s fair to say that road transport is having a crisis. Attentive watchers will not be surprised. In 2016, the House of Commons Transport…
That diesel trains emit more pollution than electric trains is no surprise. Perhaps more surprising is that pollution levels inside trains can be higher than those found by city centre…
One of rail’s most enduring features is the small slip of paper or card that marks a passenger’s permission to travel. The physical ticket has survived the switch from steam…
East Coast Main Line timetables will not change next May. Within barely three months of the rail industry launching a consultation into a new timetable, the Department for Transport has…
Unions have a vital role in rail. Love them or loathe them, they provide a voice for railway staff. They provide a counter to managers’ more extreme ideas. In turn,…
In West London there’s a pair of tracks known as the Up Poplar and Down Poplar. They link the Great Western Main Line with the North London Line. A train…
Shifting freight from road to rail provides the best short-term route to reducing freight’s carbon emissions. That’s because an HGV produces four times more carbon emissions than even a diesel…
Noel Dolphin is an enthusiast for electric trains. That shouldn’t surprise anyone because he works for Furrer+Frey, which is the Swiss company that developed the electrification system that Network Rail…
I woke early the other morning. Too early. All was black outside and time dragged. It seemed to be hours before the eastern sky slowly lightened and the sun hauled…