The complicated route to reorganising the railways

Passengers may not even notice the small name change, as Southeastern becomes South Eastern Railway. But track and train are now together under the leadership of STEVE WHITE, who talks to PAUL CLIFTON

Arguably, the British Railways of 1965 was not the same as that created in 1948, and yet in some ways it was, as there were some traditional operating methods and a staff mindset that had failed to ev

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The second railway age…

he British Transport Commission’s Modernisation of the Railway report was released on January 25, 1955, by its chairman, Sir Brian Robertson, and suggested a £1.24 billion spend on the railways to upd

PHILIP HAIGH examines two reports that lay bare why the mega-project has gone so wrong… and considers if anything can be done to get it back on track