The UK spent much of the late 20th century voting to sell off public services – but now support is growing for a renationalisation programme.
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Integrating the UK’s expensive and fragmented rail network under public ownership could save hundreds of millions and also provide a better service.
One ceremony on V J Day announced that the Sumatra railway had been completed, the construction of which had cost more than 80,000 lived and that 70 years later is still a little known story.
There are cutting edge technologies on the cards, but can anything displace railways?
Putting improvements to the northern lines on hold could pull the rug from under Osborne’s plans for northern cities.
The RMT’s successful negotiation will be envied, but the union has advantages few of its peers can rival as bargaining power is slowly diluted.
African economic history has had a renaissance and its most valuable contribution has been to show that Africans have not always been poor, nor are current poverty levels an inevitable destiny.
The bank holiday strikes may cause transport chaos, but they’ll pack a big punch for industry workers.
While federal agencies ponder regulations for safer oil rail cars, researchers are developing high-tech inspection and safety systems.
Derailed train cars carrying oil have more communities concerned about spills. What’s behind the oil-by-rail boom and a federal agency’s ‘urgent’ call last week for better safety?
Regulators, rebates and retaining bus services - Plaid’s transport policy offers a lot, but little explanation on how to fund it.
If you’re looking for key battles to watch in the New South Wales election, which could help decide who forms the next state government, then you need to know the story of the Newcastle railway line.
To the surprise of many speculative investors in the share market who had tipped Eurostar, Inter City Railways, a joint venture between Stagecoach and Virgin, won the franchise to run the East Coast mainline…
The announcement that rail fares will increase by up to 5.5% is yet another indictment of the failure of the country’s privatised railway industry. Railway privatisation was sold to the public on the basis…
The evolution of particle breakdown in railway ballast – the crushed rock under railway tracks to absorb the weight of trains…
Trains that use magnets to levitate above the tracks might sound like something from Back to the Future, but the concept of magnetic levitation has been around for many years. Maglev trains, which use…
The UK’s economy is highly unbalanced; we have the worst regional disparities in the developed world and London’s property prices are also the world’s most expensive – second only to Monaco. Rebalancing…
With the collapse of the line at Dawlish in Devon cutting off railway services to Plymouth and the southwest for months, Secretary of State for Transport Patrick McLoughlin MP and Network Rail chiefs were…
The assault on British coastlines by storm, flood and sea this winter is a taste of things to come. Rising sea levels and a greater risk of coastal flooding are a significant future threat. Britain is…
There is increasing talk of electrification of the UK’s railway network. But electrification is an expensive business, requiring much new hardware including masts, wiring, substations and so on. Such an…
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Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Wollongong
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Visiting Research Fellow, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Researcher in Transport Policy and Governance, UCL
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Professor of Operations Management, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Senior Lecturer in Accounting, University of Essex
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Lecturer in Transport Economics, Edinburgh Napier University
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Instructor in Rail Transportation Engineering, Penn State
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Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada
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Senior Lecturer in Electrical Energy Systems, University of Birmingham
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Lecturer, University of Leeds
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Teaching and Research Fellow, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Control Systems Engineering, Loughborough University
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Professor of Engineering Design, University of Sheffield
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Visiting Professor in Geography and Planning, and Visiting Fellow, Heseltine institute for Public Policy and Practice, University of Liverpool
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Professor in Transport and Supply Chain Management and Deputy Director, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS), University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney
