All change in West Midlands new trains
An insatiable demand for cash.
Another measure of reliability
Axle counter oversight hits WCRM
Back to the future for IEP procurement
BIDWATCH (4)
Blockades become Standard Practice
Blue on blue at Washwood Heath
Boiling frogs ate my Strategic Plan
Boiling frogs kill electrification
Boiling frogs exist - official
Boiling Frogs now it's £3billion a year subsidy
BostonSkegness ORR and Network Rail vacillating
BR infrastructure maintenance spend shock
Buffer stops breached driving techniques
Buffer stop TPWS chaos continues
Can we create a simpler railway?
Captain Deltic's Christmas Cracker Quiz answers
Captain Deltic's diesel diversions
Captain Deltic's new trains miscellany
Capt Deltic's rolling stock round up
Captain Deltic's traction and rolling stock round-up
Catching up on the order hiatus
CBI determines Thameslink programme.
CBI for Fenny Compton resignalling
Challenging standards to save weight and energy
Channel Tunnel freight crisis continues
Competition referral wrecks Pendolino lengthening plan.
Control Centre technology still in flux
Corbett a month is a short time in railways
Cross Country vision impossible?
CrossRail vs Superlink deviling the detail
CTRL domestic stock running late
Cullen 1 into the heart of darkness
Cup and cone commonsense triumphs
Cup and cone now it's up to the TOCs
Cup & Cone the big push under way
Darling disowns railway support target
Darling's Review content free spin
Darling's Review integration on the agenda?
Darling seizes' existing powers
Dazed and confused in Westminster
Deliveries Siemens shakes the ketchup bottle
Desiro UK Siemens bets the farm
DfT stands firm in RAIB power struggles
Disability Legislation win one.
Disability lobby grounds the Junipers
Disability provision back to the barricades
Disability Regulations must be revised
Disabled access test case rebuffed.
DMUs a procurement madness case history
Double-deck trains the definitive study?
Drivers confirm it's softly softly
East Coast Virgin's Paris Lyon action replay
ECML diesel traction challenge
ECML Morton spins out of control
ETCS money no object for the tax-payer
EDS Network Rail lost in space
Electrification DfT poses nuclear threat
Electrification driving back the forces of reaction
Electrification off the SRA's agenda
Electrification procrastination rules
Electrification they never give up
Energy efficiency rail plays catch-up
Engineers challenge HST2 traction
ERTMS - can it be made cost effective?
ERTMS cracks starting to show.
ERTMS sliding back relentlessly
Escalating costs threaten Blaenau freight scheme.
Everyone's Railway' - preaching to the unconverted
EWS promotes the Big Freight Railway
Fares row exposes little change
FCC Elaine stands by her ban
FGE boobs on replacement trains
Fight for your right to Oyster
Fight to save the Network Card
Formulaic TL/GN franchise profile
Fun and games on ICEC franchise.
Fun and games with accessibility legislation
Franchises bidders take the Micawber position
Franchise remapping one task too many?
Franchise replacement back to the future
Franchising: buy now pay later
Franchising right third time?
Freight growth it was just a metaphor
Freight still in the dependency culture
Freight to gain from gauging policy
Freight wars test the Regulator
French option sinks Asfordby test facility
Gauge corner Cracking privatisation indicted
GNER sailing in turbulent seas
Greater Anglia franchise replacement gets nasty
Gauge Corner Cracking tests engineering nerve
GNER loses open access challenge
Golden Spanners won the hard way
Grand Central exposes open access angst
Great Heck highlights double standards
Great Heck - the physics of crashworthiness
Gauging policy expands options
Hatfield hammers Virgin Trains who pays?
Hatfield Inquiry HSE inexperience shows
Hatfield 115-0 in 17 seconds
Hayabusa hardware demonstrates hybrid credibility
Hitachi preferred for CTRL-Domestics
Hither Green questions of driver training
HLOS modest enhancements despite soaring income
HMRI ruling puts lives at risk
Hours of fun with Transport Direct
How much should the railway cost?
HST2 – DfT behind the programme
HST2 engage brain before writing spec.
HST2 long, lean, fast but frugal
HST2 more seats and more power?
HST2 no fleet service this decade?
ICEC franchise phew! What a premium!
ICEC retained with massive premium
IC125 life extension fuels Brush renaissance
IEP highlights diesel limitations
Ignorant financial armies clash
InterCity reliability GNER still shining
Interim Review highlights renewals cost explosion
Interim Review Winsor lays it on the line
Interim Review Winsor nails down funding
Interim Review mopping up operations continue
Interim settlement highlights structural flaw
ITSO increases risk in SW franchise
Jetrain short in the grunt department
Laser railhead treatment shows promise
LGRI Pt 2 could put railway on hold
Life not art in drama documentary
Little vision in post meltdown policy
Maglev crash poses ageless questions
Maintenance bold decision, badly handled
MANIFESTO creation of a functioning railway
Mk 1 replacement - now for NSC
Mk 1 replacement - we'll do it our way
Mk1 replacement SSRA builds a deterrent
Mk 1 stock replacement going nowhere slowly
Modelling behind SR power up-grade
More technical advances reversed
Network Rail governance by rubber stamp
Network Rail private status weakens
Network Rail status quo ante bellum
Network Rail still making policy on the fly
Networkers to get chrysanthemum power
New disability regulations highlight buggy question
New structure - Network Rail rules OK!
New trains value for money but not cheap
New trains LTS pays the price
Now it's the £6.5billion railway.
Northern Franchise NedRail's Chinese takeaway
Northern line politics not technology
ORR stirs on Portsmouth fiasco
ORR to curb Network Rail's income
ORR now its sustainable development
Paddington an exercise in common sense
Passenger ridership varied fortunes
Pendolino lengthening no early resolution
Pendolino old style acceptance
Pendolino the final countdown
Pendolino performance on anniversary awayday
Pendolino Vortex takes another turn.
Performance improved in 2004-05
Periodic Review the process starts now.
Perpetual growth funds the HLOS
Policy initiatives unreality knows no bounds
Post Office faces rail quandary
Potters Bar cause clear reason cloudy
Potters Bar down to forensics
Potters Bar Formal Inquiry equally baffled
Potters Bar HSE feeds media circus
Potters Bar Investigators still baffled
Potters Bar criminal investigations frustrate search for truth
Potters Bar points Railtrack submits to EC
Power-hungry lard-butts (continued)
Power supplies compound Mk 1 crisis
Public immune to safety hysteria
Rail loses the environmental advantage
Rail Review the Department strikes back
Railtrack ignorant armies wander round
Railtrack investment' money into a black hole?
Railtrack orders maintenance cut-back
Railtrack's performance mystery
Railway costs struggling with the unknowns
Railway funding becoming even more opaque
Rant of the Month-Time to fight safety hypocrisy
Redwood solves adhesion problem
Refurbishment weight creep and changing dynamics
Replacement franchises there may be trouble ahead.
Resource issues at heart of ETCS implementation
Risk inflates Thameslink 2000.
Risk, perception and the cold numbers
Roll over rig changes perceptions
ROSCOs dig in for a war of attrition
ROSCOs face anti-capitalist backlash.
ROSCO profits DfT hoist by its own petard
ROSCO rental cut impasse - latest
Rolling stock Strategy underwhelms
ROSCOs stiffed on residual value
RVAR 2020 problems underground
Safety critical comm's culture or procedure?
Safety Prescott 's strip' tease
Sandbach-Wilmslow resignalling drags on
Saturday night and Sunday morning
Settle & Carlisle comes round again
Short term dominates 10 Year Plan
Siemens' growing train mountain
Signal interlocking acceptance makes progress
Signalling first signs of order out of chaos
Signalling how fast can Network Rail spend?
Signalling – let the good times roll
Signalling in perpetual crisis
Signalling more preferred but no firm orders
Signalling redundancies despite resources shortage'
South Central Morton's first domino topples
Southern Power SRA defies the laws of physics
SR power upgrade agreements signed
SRA Disability Code encourages
SSRA's new trains procurement wars revisited
Stelios rattles Sir Richard's cage
Still chasing the unforgiving minute
Stoke track quality forced opening postponement
Strategic Plan Valued at £25bn
Super DMUs hit by engine problems
Support needed tops £5billion this year
Support will top £4billion this year
SWT subsidy up by 350% under replacement franchise
TASS Virgin's nightmare acronym
Technical specification emerges
Ten decisions where industry struggles
Thameslink change highlights CBI challenge
Thameslink 2012 new trains, simpler signalling
Three way fight for Connex Metros
Ticket web-sites proliferate in hard times
Time runs out for Manchester South
Time's winged chariot (re-set)
Tom and Gerry irresistible force meets immovable object
Tooth and claw in franchise replacement bidding
TPWS still forgetting the driver
Traction and rolling stock reliability reviewed
Train acceptance still no easy answers
Train builders in a turbulent market
Train leasing ORR bottles out
Train reliability electrics excel but diesels disappoint
Train reliability new EMUs start to deliver
Train Reliability slow to improve.
Turbostar Evo' takes up the challenge
Two cheers for the 10 year plan
Uff/Cullen reality breaking in
Vehicle approval gets political
Vertical integration gains momentum
Virgin franchise support another £282million needed
Voyager impresses - Pendolino deceives to flatter
Washwood Heath takes Preston down
WCML yet another race against time
WCRM finally collapses sort-of - official
WCRM value for money' at £9.8billion, official
Welcome to the Ministry of Truth
West Coast 1 - Alstom's mission: really impossible
West Coast 2 who needs remote control?
West Coast blockades only way forward
West Coast just the same old crisis
West Coast now the franchise plan collapses
West Coast Virgin back with a vengeance
West Coast Virgin still thinking long term
West Coast signalling not single spies.
West Coast round the mulberry bush
West Coast InterCity all to play for.
West Coast pretty damn good considering
West Coast Route Modernisation now its £5.8 billion
West Coast signalling wait for the fat lady
Winsor seeks to cool West Coast boiling frogs
170 weekend blockades for Great Eastern Main Line
2001 the year of common sense?
£25 million buys Transport Direct Lite
458 furore puts DfT on back foot
£50million/year fund for small enhancements