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Hyperloop: overhyped?
8 February 2018
Hyperloop has been touted by some as the solution to all of our transport woes... Is the so-called fifth mode of transport worth all the fuss?
The (next) Boris Bridge
21 January 2018
Boris is at it again... It won't take me long to explain why a road bridge between the UK and France is a terrible idea.
Fares, funding and flipping nationalisation
2 January 2018
The noise surrounding the nationalisation question would have you believe that the answer is split along party lines... Is there a socialist case against nationalisation though?
A strategic vision for rail
29 November 2017
At the end of 2017, the Department for Transport released their "Strategic Vision for Rail". Was it just a cover-up for truncating the East Coast franchise (again) or was there some substance to it?
Rail freight versus road haulage
27 November 2017
It seems to have been forgotten recently, but rail freight will always beat road haulage thanks to one inescapable truth: physics.
The cans and cants of railway curves
4 October 2017
This little explainer piece describes why railway engineers apply cant (apply what?) through curves and discusses why this isn’t the right thing to do on heritage railways...
Drawing lines on the map
10 August 2017
The case has often been made that we don't need new railway lines clogging up our already over-developed landscapes. Is this true?
Diving down into Crossrail
15 December 2015
Back in 2015, I had a plod about between the Stepney Green shaft and Canary Wharf station having a look at Crossrail's new tunnels. I also had my camera with me.
