David Willey's Transport blog

Saturday, 2 October 2021

Truck driver shortage is an opportunity for modal shift.

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 Recent days have seen reports of panic buying of fuel as the media have suggested a fuel shortage due to a lack of truck drivers to deliver...
Monday, 13 April 2020

Undoing Beeching could wipe out heritage operations.

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Back in the 1960s, when British Railways were closing "unremunerative" branch lines left, right and centre, plucky bands of volunt...
Saturday, 7 March 2020

Is there a future for domestic air travel?

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The recent collapse of flybe has made headlines, but many in the industry have seen this coming for some time. The short-haul airline was op...
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Monday, 30 December 2019

Star Wars irl

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Ever since man has gone into space, the military have used satellites for their own advantage, primarily as an intelligence gathering platfo...
Monday, 28 October 2019

Putting the "Express" in Transpennine Express.

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Way back in the early days of privatisation, Cross Country (Virgin Cross Country as it then was) described itself as the "Cinderella...
Thursday, 17 October 2019

Parking mad

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Car parking has been in the news this month on two fronts. Firstly the workplace parking levy . This proposal by the Scottish government fo...
Tuesday, 20 August 2019

Maritime history is rusting away.

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Preserving ships is an expensive business. Ships are much larger than road vehicles or even trains,  and they need constant upkeep. Despite ...
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Welcome to my blog. Here you will find my thoughts, mainly on the subject of transport, from the latest railway reopenings, to preservation and heritage.
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