Comment Archive
We will be adding more and more of Nigel's Comment pieces so check back regularly to see the latest ones.
- Comment 615 - High speed - at high speed
- Comment 614 - Bitter coating, sweet pill?
- Comment 613 - Contracts must never be broken - but they can be rengotiated
- Comment 612 - IEP helps revive train building but Hitachi must keep to its promises - Part 2
- Comment 611 - First, survive recession, then build a more mature franchise system
- Comment 610 - Part 2 - Rapidly changing policy could yet rescue IEP to get DfT off the hook
- Comment 609 - West Coast woes once again and a fare rise row - welcome to 2009!
- Comment 612 - IEP helps revive train building but Hitachi must keep to its promises - Part 1
- Comment 610 - Part 1 - Rapidly changing policy could yet rescue IEP to get DfT off the hook
- Comment 608 - DfT ‘stupendously incompetent’ says Whitehall finance watchdog
- Comment 607 - Is this merely a recession - or will it be a full-blown depression?
- Comment 606 - If high speed rail is so poor, why does Air France seek to run AGVs?
- Comment 605 - Brown is wrong to think transport schemes can’t be done quickly...
- Comment 604 - Top rail manager brands DfT as ‘arrogant, stupid and ridiculous’
- Comment 603 - Behind the bank headlines, major changes are coming in rail too
- Comment 602 - Globalisation of the rail industry poses major threat to rail UK
- Comment 601 - Is ORR review creating a 'perfect storm' which will wreak havoc?
- Comment 600 - Time for genuine privatisation of Britain's East Coast Main Line? (Philip Haigh)
- Comment 599 - Humiliated DfT’s £50m folly is clear as CC vindicates ROSCOs
- Comment 598 - Tram-trains: a potentially good idea let down by poor planning? (Philip Haigh
- Comment 597 - The world that spawned IEP has changed - it’s time to call a halt
- Comment 596 - Even airlines realise rail’s benefits but DfT is still ‘modally agnostic’!
- Comment 616 - It's time for vision
- Comment 617 - Break the mould
- Comment 618 - Passengers speak
- Comment 619 - Fares in disrepute
- Comment 620 - Western Front
- Comment 622 - The fog of franchise war
- Comment 623 - Franchise fixing
- Comment 624 - Wake up, speak up
- Comment 625 - The need for speed!
- Comment 628 - High speed tipping point
- Comment 630 -Fares farce
- Comment 632 - Another fares fiasco
- Comment 633 - Right idea, poorly tackled
- Comment 635 - Eurostar blames ‘new’ snow
- Comment 636 - Long deals, tough terms
- Comment 637 - Connect or direct?
- Comment 638 - Eurostar’s humiliation
- Comment 639 - IEP stalls - what now?
- Comment 641 - Striking back
- Comment 642 - Anaemic Infrarail
- Comment 643 - Day of reckoning
- Comment 644 - Brave new world?
- Comment 645 - The storm is breaking
- Comment 646- Hammond must reform NR
- Comment 647 - Carpe diem - or just carp?
- Comment 648 - One last chance for NR
- Comment 649 - Divide and conquer?
- Comment 650 - Sticking plaster railway?
- Comment 651 - Rail must cut complexity
- Comment 652 - NR finally brought to heel?
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