Scotland pushes towards a better railway
Those who do nothing make no mistakes. So the saying goes and I was reminded of it while talking to a journalist from the Scotsman newspaper of the problems ScotRail…
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Those who do nothing make no mistakes. So the saying goes and I was reminded of it while talking to a journalist from the Scotsman newspaper of the problems ScotRail…
Cast your mind back a little over a decade. It’s January 2008 and RAIL 553 is warning that there’s little time to make use of Euston station’s freight facilities.It quotes…
This year should see governments in Westminster and Holyrood reveal what they want from Britain’s railway over the five years from 2019. With the rail industry’s love of jargon, acronyms…
Well, who knew? First Great Western has a Writer-on-the-Train. He’s James Attlee and his book chronicling his journeys from Paddington was published in mid-May, entitled Station to Station. Having already…
The First World War was not the first in which railways played an important role but it was the first to use railways on such a scale. For WW1 was…
I’ve stared into the eyes of the inquisitor-in-chief. For five minutes earlier this morning, all the separated me from John Humphrys were a couple of microphones and the desk from…
A trip last week to Normandy provided a perfect opportunity to reflect on the differences between British and French railways. The default view would have you believe that Britain’s railways…
After an incident in which a woman was dragged along a platform at Jarrow with her arm stuck in the doors of a Metro train, the train operator has released…
I should have known better. To travel on the East Coast Main Line on an autumn Saturday is to risk lengthened journeys, bus replacements or diversions. And so it was on…
High Speed 2’s forthcoming strategic business case is expected to place less emphasis on whether businessmen work while travelling. Debates about HS2 over the past few years have been punctuated…