Rail monopoly news – 27April 2016 Message to European Transport Council – Why follow the UK to wreck parts of the 4th Railway Package Message to the European Parliament – Don’t validate the Technical pillar yet! The UK Government is putting the 4th Railway Package at risk by digging its heels in with France (and…
Rail monopoly news – 14 April 2016 Member states undermine Bulc’s plea for an open rail market – 4th RP UK, FR and DE lead the campaign to dilute the conflict of interest clauses. At the Transport Council working group meeting last week, UK, DE and FR achieved such a dilution of the conflict of interest…
Euston Express is disappointed that the Commons Select committee chose to ignore the inaccurate evidence given by HS2 about our Euston Express scheme. E Ex puts all HS2 and West Coast Main Line trains onto the WCML tracks from Queens Park inwards and avoids the high cost, massive disruption and demolition to streets to the…
The UK Rail Delivery Group minutes of a November meeting (Guardian 1 February) to discuss the future structure of the railways suggests that one option was to remove routes from Network Rail control, and privatise them in a manner similar to the privatised utilities. Some at the RDG favoured a full breakup, arguing that Network…
Ministers are being bombarded on all sides by irate politicians worried about the performance of the passenger railway in their constituencies. From those Tories in the constituencies south of London stretching to the sea, the performance of the trains has been heavily criticised; ’trains are always late, we can never get a seat, they close…
