The Independent Subterranean Railway Review
Written in muscular, fast-moving prose, this account of the Tube is so packed with surprises and pleasures that it deserves an audience far beyond transport buffs and Londoners. The system began with...
View ArticleOrient Express in its death throes
The opening, in June, of the TGV Est, France’s fourth high-speed line, will bring a sad casualty in its wake: the first stretch of the original Orient Express, the sleeper train that has connected...
View ArticleThe TGV success story
The Train à Grande Vitesse has revolutionised train travel in France. The high speed train service has destroyed much of the domestic aviation market and stimulated the economic development of those...
View ArticleFire and Steam Review by Frank McLynn
Railways in the 19th century had the transformative effect that the automobile would have in the 20th, and Christian Wolmar is a sure-footed guide to the oft-told tale of British railway history. The...
View ArticleFire and Steam Review by Michael Williams
Christian Wolmar is becoming something of a national treasure these days. Just like Peter Snow at election time or Patrick Moore when there’s an eclipse due, Wolmar pops up on the TV and radio...
View ArticleRail industry is still fragile despite booming numbers
Despite delays, weekend closures and overcrowding, Britons love affair with the railways seems to grow stronger every year. Passenger numbers have risen by 50 per cent since the mid 1990s and, so far,...
View ArticleManchester vote kills off road pricing
The strength of the vote against the congestion charge plan in Manchester effectively kills off the government’s strategy of trying to bribe local votes into accepting such schemes. This one had...
View ArticleIts a tough ask for the rail companies to sell more tickets while hiking fares
Yesterday’s meeting between the train operators and transport ministers was the first in what is set to be an elaborate game of cat and mouse played out against the backdrop of the recession. Railways...
View ArticleScandal of museum threat
First they took the trains. Now they want to take the museum that celebrates their invention away. What a way to mark the 50th anniversary of the Beeching report which did for a third of Britain’s...
View ArticleHow paedophiles tried to take over the Left
Looking back from 2014, it seems extraordinary that an organisation with a name like the Paedophile Information Exchange was taken so seriously for a time in the 1970s that it was able to present...
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