Published: April 2008 by Alan Marshall
LAST month in Railnews, under the heading ‘We need right time all the time’, East Midlands Trains’ managing director Tim Shoveller – widely recognised as one of the smartest operators in today’s rail industry – made an impassioned plea for perfect punctuality. Read full
Published: April 2008 by Alan Marshall
Three reasons why a bus cannot ever be a train Read full
Published: March 2008 by Alan Marshall
An intriguing ‘David and Goliath’ battle is due to start at the end of this year in the north-east corner of Wales. Read full
Published: February 2008 by Alan Marshall
It strikes me that 2008 is going to be a year of considerable challenge for the British railway industry – and a year in which some past chickens, resulting from the way the industry was structured for privatisation, may be coming home to roost. Read full
Published: January 2008 by Alan Marshall
Last month I argued that our railways should reduce their dependency on oil with an incremental programme of main line electrification – using energy powered from a wide variety of sources, many of them carbon neutral and several also ‘renewable’. Read full