GERALD CORBETT, chief executive of Railtrack from 1997 to 2000, speaks exclusively to CHRISTIAN WOLMAR, in conjunction with the Calling All Stations podcast, about his time in the industry which included two major accidents at Ladbroke Grove and Hatfield

The effects of two years of storage delay the introduction of diesel multiple units in Devon and Cornwall

A “farce” and a “scandal” as the wait for Oxford-Milton Keynes passenger trains shows no sign of ending

…and full electrification should have been agreed from the start

When I had last spent time in the area in August 1963, most passenger services and just a few longer distance freight trains had started to be diesel-hauled, with local freight trip working still a st

Let me say straight away, from an early age I loved watching trains go by at my local station and soon became just as interested in the surrounding infrastructure. I loved how the whole system worked,