Latest editorial
LABOUR’S would-be transport secretary would let state-owned companies bid for Scottish rail routes — if Scotland is still part of the union.
Shadow transport secretary Mary Creagh yesterday acknowledged a “raw deal” under privatisation as she inched the party’s platform back towards public ownership.
SNP ministers have seized on current laws which ban the public sector from bidding to run Scottish trains even when foreign state-owned firms are major players.
EDDIE DEMPSEY explains why the RMT is calling for urgent action against assaults on staff and passengers on our public transport system
Two-hundred years ago, on September 27 1825, the world’s first passenger railway line was opened between Stockton and Darlington. MICK WHELAN, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ union, reflects on the history – and the future – of Britain’s railway industry
