Wednesday, 22 November 2017

Why that Scotrail Alliance soundbite is wrong on so many levels.

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“We are building the best railway that Scotland has ever had”, said ScotRail Alliance Programmes and Transformation Director Ian McConnell  ...
Tuesday, 5 September 2017

Power gives way to sail

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For many centuries, man sailed the ocean by wind power alone. Then along came steam and diesel power, with bigger, steel-hulled ships that a...
Wednesday, 23 August 2017

Blurred tramlines

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Conventional wisdom is that trams are those bus-like things that run on rails in the street and trains are those long things that run on gra...
Wednesday, 16 August 2017

Oban passengers want trains, not buses.

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Back in 2015, I was returning home from the Skerryvore Decade festival in Oban by train. Attempting to board the train at Oban, I was lucky ...
Wednesday, 2 August 2017

Easy alternative to GARL

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Discussing the Glasgow Airport Rail Link on Facebook recently, someone suggested that the route of the old Paisley and Renfrew Railway coul...
Wednesday, 26 July 2017

Cars to switch to electricity while diesel trains chug on.

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Two announcements from the government this week show remarkably disjointed thinking on switching from diesel to electric power on the roads ...
Saturday, 3 June 2017

Buses need to be more user-friendly.

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I have something of a love-hate relationship with buses. I love buses, the actual vehicles themselves, but travelling on them can be quite s...