
The UK government’s push for a new generation of settlements is rooted in a familiar problem: a persistent housing shortage. While empty upper floors and…

The UK government’s push for a new generation of settlements is rooted in a familiar problem: a persistent housing shortage. While empty upper floors and…

Rail freight has never been shy of making its case. This week it arrived in Westminster, the seat of the British parliament, with something more…

Is Britain’s rail freight sector in a state of readiness? Probably yes, but they don’t call it a supply chain for nothing. The links between…

It has been almost a week since the devastating blaze adjacent to Glasgow Central Station forced the indefinite closure of Scotland’s busiest rail hub. Passenger…

Britain’s railways are recruiting again, and in serious numbers. In its 200th anniversary year, the industry has pledged to take on 2,000 apprentices, a signal…

A freight train emerges from a tunnel beneath a Northamptonshire hillside and rolls into a forest of warehouses. Minutes later, lorries disperse towards the M1,…

The long-awaited recommencement of tunnelling work on the Old Oak Common to London Euston section of HS2 should be welcomed. After years in the doldrums…

The prevailing narrative of the British economy is one of service-sector dominance, a landscape of finance and consultancy where the soot-stained factories of the 20th…

For too long, transport has treated rail freight as an afterthought. This week has been no different. Despite all the political machinations hogging the headlines,…

Britain likes to pretend it has a modern railway. Most weeks, the network does its best to expose that as a polite fiction. In the…

It is the political equivalent of shutting the doors a minute before departure. Too late to get off now. The Railways Bill 2025 has entered…

The current UK Government has made a habit of embarrassing about-turns on policy, but this week the left-wing first-term Labour Party reached new heights of…