Topic: Grant Shapps

Redundant sign for Doncaster for GBR HQ lying on floor

UK government splashes over fifty million on Network Rail replacement

There has been a predictably critical response to the revelation that the UK government has already spent over fifty million pounds (around 60 million euro) on its plan to replace Network Rail with a new...Read more

22-05-2023|Comment|author: Simon Walton

Britain faces decades of climate disruption says minister in the hot seat

This week’s heatwave has put pressure on UK infrastructure like never before. The unprecedented closure of the East Coast Main Line, in the face of temperatures more akin to Spain than Stevenage, was the headline...Read more

20-07-2022|1 comment|author: Simon Walton

UK Strike: end of the beginning

Saturday, June 25 was the third and last of the one-day strikes called by the trades union RMT. After a huge ballot mandate, the union called out members from most passenger train operating companies in...Read more

27-06-2022|1 comment|author: Simon Walton