Rail Passenger Statistics Show HS2 is the ‘Fast Track to Disaster’. Today the Department for Transport have published their 2016 passenger figures for parts of the rail...
The Race for the Trough Expands as SNCF Join HS2 Franchise Bidders Whilst it may seem rather early for bidders to be announced for the franchise to run HS2 as it’s...
From the Archives: A coherent approach to years of misery? Nearly a year after this was first published, you’d have thought they would have a better idea as...
Network Rail undermine Department for Transport capacity argument for HS2 Besides the ridiculous notion that HS2 will be a magic wand the cure the north-south divide, the argument put...
Corbyn/Virgin ‘traingate’ spat undermines the case for HS2 The release of CCTV footage allegedly showing that Jeremy Corbyn passed both reserved and unreserved seats, before making a...
Latest DfT passenger numbers On 28th July, the DfT updated their passenger overcrowding data on trains, which they publish annually. It shows that for...
A coherent approach to years of misery? One of the woolliest headlines to come out of the “Yeah, whatever, just get on with it” report from...
Proof, if it were ever needed, more trains and carriages mean more capacity. One of the arguments handily trotted out by Government, which somehow is meant to demonstrate the need for HS2,...
Train Overcrowding – slow cheap trains are busiest Yesterday, the Department for Transport published a series of rail usage statistics. These included details of the busiest ten...
HS2: Is Time Running Out This was published yesterday on South Heath against HS2. In yesterday’s Telegraph with the...