Profit Made The Trains Run On Time
Subterranean Railway Review Christian Wolmar is a Pullman among story tellers. It helps that he is personally involved – ‘when I was a child’ he writes, ‘I used to be haunted by the sound of ghostly...
View ArticleA blueprint for Britain’s railways
Gloom descended as commuters found that their fares would be rising by 8 per cent in January. This followed hot on the heels of news from the Office of Rail Regulation that overcrowding was getting...
View ArticleThe rise of railway nostalgia
In this era of leaves on the line, protests over High Speed 2 and malfunctioning franchises, it is hardly surprising that rail passengers hark back to a golden age. With Michael Portillo, Bradshaw...
View ArticleIt’s Osborne, not the regulator, who passengers should worry about
Last week’s spat between Network Rail and the Office of Rail Regulation was not the pistols-at-dawn confrontation that was portrayed in several newspapers. It was, in fact, the normal negotiation...
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