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 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,…
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…
HS2 enters 2026 in a curious position. Britain’s self-proclaimed largest infrastructure project is simultaneously at peak production and undergoing what ministers describe as a “reset”.…