Transport Blog In Brief

Recent comment - Uncle Roger on the difficulty in working out accurate subsidy figures…link

Delays plummet by 28% - says Network Rail…link

Government 'willed' Railtrack to fail - says Corbett…link

Big bonuses for failing rail bosses - Network Rail finds ever more original ways of using up its cash mountain. And there's a Telegraph comment…link

Network Rail reveals £758 million loss - only £758m? Does anyone else smell a rat here?…link

Fall in train delays not enough, say passengers - At least we are getting something for NR's billions…link

Main rail bodies in dispute on high costs - the SRA tut-tuts Network Rail. Pot and kettle anyone?…link

Bonuses arrive punctually for Network chiefs …link

Network Rail directors to get big bonuses - !?…link

Network Rail criticised - by National Audit Office…link

Blair's own MPs criticise 'out of control' railway - and they call for the abolition of both Network Rail and the SRA

The £10bn rail crash - in-depth report from the Guardian on the origins of the WCML fiasco…link

Public misled over cost of £10bn rail line - the West Coast Route Modernisation was going to cost £1.5bn. Now, it will cost £10bn…link

Railway delays to be measured in seconds - I am pretty sure that JR Central does not measure delays to the second. Why am I so sure? Because I asked them when I was over there. If a train is 59 secs late it is on time. If it is 60 secs late then it is a minute late. If it is 61 secs late then that is also a minute late. However, JR Central, do publish average lateness in terms of seconds. Which is not the same thing…link

Network's £17bn fix for late trains - over three years. One billion passenger journeys a year. Goodness, that's over £5 per trip…link

State ownership does not mean state control - Eamonn Butler considers the case of Network Rail…link

Treasury to shunt rail spending off the books - it's another statistics scandal.…link