After the untimely demise of HS2 Phase 2A in a Manchester hotel room, at the behest of shady think tanks and shadowy advisers, the mayors of Birmingham and Manchester are doing their…

Nigel Harris reviews the annual George Bradshaw Address at which Rail Minister Huw Merriman and Labour Shadow Stephen Morgan headed an Election Special. He heard nothing new from either of the political…

On February 5, Richard Bowker and I recorded the latest Green Signals  ‘Big Interview’ episode (published on Tuesday February 6) – and our very welcome guest was a familiar railway figure who…

Embed from Getty Images As a journalist, experience teaches you to just accept, without too much personal reaction, news of deaths of folk in the public eye – but every now and…

I’m not a fan of pointing out problems, without putting up at least some semblance of a suggestion for a possible solution – but I’m afraid the rapidly increasing problem of luggage…

If you ever visit the USA, visiting railway – or should I say railroad – sites, then prioritise on Promontory Summit, in the state of Utah. I know, I know…..you’re probably thinking:…

Precisely because HS2 is Europe’s biggest civil engineering project, it was always inevitably going to be its most passionately controversial. Binary arguments on all sides, of every aspect, from alleged woodland destruction…