On The Wrong Line: How Ideology and Incompetence Wrecked Britain's Railways |
Contents
The poll tax on wheels | |
the sale of Railtrack | |
a moments inattention | |
Labourfails to grasp the nettle | |
the accident that broke the railway 9 Railtrack suicide or lynching? | |
the strange case of the railway saboteurs | |
Rebuilding the railway sort | |
The risk paradox | |
Why is the railway so expensive? 1 The mess of franchising | |
Why is the railway so expensive? 2 The cost of trains | |
Why is the railway so expensive? 3 The soaring cost of maintenance and new projects | |
How ideology and incompetence wrecked Britains | |
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access charges assets Automatic Train Protection Balfour Beatty bidders Bowker BR’s British Rail British Railways broken rails Byers caused cent Chapter Coast Main Line company’s contractors contracts cost crash created Cullen decision delays Department for Transport director disaster driver engineering ensure executive extra fact franchise freight GNER government’s Hatfield accident Ibid improve increase infrastructure inquiry Interview with author investment issue Jarvis Labour Ladbroke Grove leasing longterm maintenance major ministers Modernisation Moreover Network Rail organisation passengers Potters Bar Prescott private sector problem profits programme rail industry rail privatisation rail regulator Railtrack Railway Safety realised renationalisation renewal replaced responsibility result risk rolling stock roscos routes scheme shareholders signal South West Trains Southall SPADs SRA’s Stagecoach stations Strategic Rail Authority structure subsidy taxpayer Tom Winsor Tories track Treasury West Coast Main Winsor