West Coast passenger numbers to stay secret – for now. In a private court hearing held yesterday (1st November 2012) in the build up to the Judicial Reviews which...
West Coast Mainline & HS2 – the truth will out, albeit slowly. Yesterday, Transport Secretary Patrick McLouhglin and chief DfT civil servant Philip Rutnam appeared before the Transport Select Committee, trying...
How reliable is the Department for Transport? A preliminary report by Sam Laidlaw published on 29th October into the Department for Transport’s handling of the bidding...
Does “Commercial Confidentiality” lead to failings? Virgin trains are to be asked to continue running the West Coast Main Line trains after 9th December...
McLoughlin has his fingers in his ears about HS2. In an interview with The Independent, Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has said he wants to ‘fast track’...
ITV Central News on West Coast Main Line franchise débâcle Includes clip of Joe, and film of Penny Gaines and Fran Heron at the Stop HS2 stand at the...
Public Accounts Committee said Franchising Civil Servant’s HS2 thinking was ‘Bonkers’ & ‘Shocking’. According to the DfT business plan, Steve Gooding the civil servant in charge of HS2 for the...
“Significant technical flaws” on West Coast Mainline franchise will be dwarfed by HS2. Campaigners against HS2 feel vindicated today by the shambles of the WCML bidding process which has revealed “significant technical...
Justine Greening, Victorians versus Today Justine Greening was interviewed at length on the Today program, in an interview which focused on the possibility of...
HS2 Ltd sit on Phase 2 route but fiddle a new, already outdated, business case. HS2 Ltd, the wholly owned subsidiary of the Department for Transport tasked with developing and promoting the new high-speed...