The UK has suffered from a largely nationalised railway for 23 years since Network Rail was brought into 100% public ownership in 2002. All the track, signals, power systems, stations and all the land are in government ownership and control. The result has been an expensive mess. Another Transport Minister has sat studying things for a year and has now announced £1.1bn for more studies to answer the same question how to improve Northern Rail.
For the last 14 years successive governments have announced their decision to build a new high speed track from Manchester to Leeds but there is still little doing. Over this time period HS2 has seen costs quadruple and time delays lengthen, with both the previous and the present government accepting they cannot afford to press on with the two legs from the Midlands to Manchester and Leeds that were the original point of the scheme. HS2 has been completely nationalised throughout and given tens of billions of pounds more than budget. It will end up delivering half the railway for maybe three times the cost.
The government likes railways for environmental reasons, yet every new railway line is bitterly fought over by people who dislike the big impact rail tracks have on their landscape and for the noise and emissions from the trains. The Green lobby claim rail travel is greener than cars, as they assume it will be in an electric train and assume the power for the train will be all renewable. Both these assumptions are miles from the truth. Only 39% of the track is electrified so diesels are the dominant force on our railways. The power delivered to the system from the grid is only around 50% low CO2 and can be as little as 15% low CO2 on no wind and sun times. So overall only 20% of the trains meet their wishes.
Why given their views have governments failed to electrify the system and put in the renewable power they say it needs?
The Transport Department’s 2024-5 Accounts tell us the railways cost taxpayers £28bn in that year. £7bn went on a year’s spend on HS2 and £17.9bn on publicly owned Network Rail, with £3bn of other rail items of spending. The Expenditure Review 2025 forecasts £30bn for the current year. Network Rail last year only managed to collect £3.3 bn in Access charges from the train companies running the services and needed as always to rely on large sums from the Treasury. Whilst rail was spending £30bn the Department only spent £7 bn on the much more extensively used national road network. Even with Council spending on other roads it means government spends 30 times as much per rail mile travelled on trains as it spends per mile travelled on roads.
The capacity and speed issues could be eased by accelerated spending on digital signalling. If every train knows where every other train is on the network in real time and if there is an override control by the system operator more trains can be run safely per hour on the same stretch of track. More fast trains could be combined with stopping trains by building more short sections of by pass or overtaking track along key routes. These are much cheaper and quicker solutions than a scheme like HS 2 which was meant to both raise capacity and average speeds starting from now, only to find we are years off a single train making it from London to Birmingham, let alone Leeds or Manchester.
January 15, 2026
I dare say every possible comment has already been made, yet nothing has changed. And so it will continue. in the minds of most politicans, the sunk costs of HS2 are so great, dwarfing Rachel Reeves’s £22bn black hole, that they can only be justified by finishing the job as intended. In fact the correct decision is just to finish the job. Full stop. Now.
January 15, 2026
Agreed Peter – stop chattering and build the ruddy thing.
One solution that is not suggested now is private sector construction of railways. That was the approach in Victorian times and it delivered a substantial network at an affordable price…
January 15, 2026
Before the arrival of widely owned personal transport e.g. the car
January 15, 2026
No. You can’t hark back to the Victorian era (that’s being more academic / ideological than pragmatic / entrepreneurial – and people in private sector always go for the pragmatic over academic). Rather, you should focus on what other countries are doing best in railway now and see if / how / what they are doing can be replicated here in the UK – or not. So:
Japan – arguably best high-speed rail
Switzerland – arguably best integrated railway with relatively high-level customer experience
Germany – arguably best infrastructure
USA – arguably best for freight
And if you look at all these countries it’s a mixture of both public and private
January 15, 2026
Sort of my point. 150 years ago the private sector saw value in investing in railways. Would they see value today? If not it suggests there isn’t value in the public sector investing either. I reckon the private sector would identify some infrastructure spend that is justified but a Northern HS2 solution isn’t the answer.
January 15, 2026
Good point. The private sector doesn’t want to waste their money on the railways. There are far easier and more lucrative industries to invest in (although some money to be made in the railways for sure).
HS2 – bonkers, I agree.
But if Boris was even contemplating building bridges to France and Northern Ireland then not surprising you’re going to get HS2. People like him in politics have NO IDEA about business. Boris should have just stuck to writing amusing stories in the Spectator (which he was great at).
January 15, 2026
Railways are not green, they are an environmental disaster. The Victorians gave us a viable and comprehensive rail system which Beeching destroyed. As with the trams in cities lines were ripped up and roads relayed only to be ripped up again.
Governments like mass transport as a means of controlling the population they hate the freedom and flexibility of the car over which they have little control.
As you say railways should be completely digitised and the trains made driverless which would save a fortune.
January 15, 2026
@Peter Gardner – yup keep making the same mistakes, in exactly the same way and they are always surprised the end result is still the same failure
January 15, 2026
Meanwhile :-
1 Jenrick gets sacked for plotting to defect to Reform.
2:Greenland issue is escalating.
3 Iran issue is escalating.
Net Zero is not something Labour will address.
Likewise railways.
There is only so much that can be said on these subjects unless you are Lifelogic.
The only Labour climbdown has been ID cards.
January 15, 2026
“The government likes railways for environmental reasons“ what environmental reasons? when you consider the end connections (often two way car or taxi journeys at each end), the often very indirect routes taken, average occupancy of train over the whole day, professional staff and track maintenance they do not even save CO2 or even energy. So what environmental reasons are these? Also hugely inflexible as we saw with the storm a tree down, cabling down, or a small flood, a strike or landslide can kill all trains on that route. A car or van can just change the route round the obstacle. Also far more expensive per mile despite the over taxation of one circa 50% is tax for cars and subsidy for the other 50% is subsidy for trains.
Despite this market rigging a full car can cost less than 1/10 of a train ticked per person mile.
January 15, 2026
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transport-energy-and-environment-statistics-notes-and-definitions/journey-emissions-comparisons-methodology-and-guidance
The above table of CO2 be transport method is full of lies or mistakes/errors perhaps prepared by a PPE or English graduate. They look at London to Glasgow but a more real jouney might be say Cranbrook Kent to 5 miles for Ayr. Or 7 miles ouside Birmingham to 7 miles outside Cambridge prob. done via London with 28 miles a taxis! By car direct half the distance.
They still claim walking and cycling use no CO2 direct or indirect so they are clearly liars or morons. Human food is the fuel and that is very CO2 intensive indeed especially meat.
I have been on a few trains this week Gatwick, Tunbridge Wells (still no water), Cambridge, Staplehurst (no water) average occupancy was about 10% of the seats! Fares without a rail card circa £1 a mile.
January 15, 2026
I have claimed delay repay (quite correctly) about 5 times over the last couple of years but only twice have they actually paid up. Do some rail companies have a deliberate do not pay they will give up agenda? I suspect so. Not really worth my time but thought I should do to make them pay – so insult and further irritation is further added to the delay.
January 15, 2026
If trains received no subsidies and were taxed as cars are (with fuel duty, VAT, motorist muggings etc.) at circa 50% they would become circa four times as expensive as currently. So what then would the real fair market demand be for trains then, perhaps half current demand or so which would put fares up yet again! On most routes and journey they simply cannot compete at all. With self driving taxis, cars and hire cars coming they will become even less competitive too.
Perhaps build houses on the land released. Where is a Dr Beaching when you need one? Has anyone calculated how much the Beaching cuts saved us in train subsidies since the sixties?
January 15, 2026
yea but then commuting for work would become unviable, and places like London would collapse because the majority of their workers commute in. the only people who can live there are the mega wealthy or those on benefits and/or social housing. without London the tax base of the country collapses and we have a whole lot more problems.
it is certainly true that a lot of tram and light rail schemes have cost a fortune, deliver nothing that the buses were not doing better beforehand, and a waste of public money, only done because its a fashion in the elite, or one-upmanship with other areas.
January 15, 2026
Well loads more people working from home and people have to make a choice get more house for less money and put up with commuting at its true cost or have a small flat and do not pay for or suffer the long commute. Fair unrigged markets please. Rigging markets wastes billions and damages living standards.
January 15, 2026
I would be happy with the state stopping all rigging of markets, and stopping all social engineering, and allowing individual citizens to make their own decisions without pressure from the state.
With a few exceptions to help the genuinely extremely vulnerable (not the massive welfare state we currently have).
But that would be a massively different society to what we have now. And those that have paid into the system for decades would be short changed, as the state has already had their money, so a gradual implementation would probably make more sense.
But that would also need the state to start protecting the borders properly, and a whole lot more.
I think a lot of policies along these lines would actually be far more popular with the electorate than the political bubble assumes. Mostly the bubble and politicians are not really in it for the betterment of the country, they are in it for themselves, and so they only rock the boat in minor ways around the edges, and things most of them admit in private are never said in public.
January 15, 2026
To avoid long commutes a lot more people would have a second home, small flat maybe, near their job, while keeping their main house further away (where maybe their kids are going to school). this option is priced out for most by state manipulation of punitive council taxes etc if you try to do this. living in flat near work when you need to be in the office, and spend other days at the main house.
indeed a lot of MP’s live like this, but they are allowed to claim this as tax free expenses in a way which the rest of the population is not allowed.
Reply I had to pay the costs of living in my own London flat out of my taxed income
January 15, 2026
indeed IR35 even stops genuine freelancers from getting genuine business expenses tax free, so it is far harder for them to, for instance, book into a hotel near where they are working. this has a lot of unintended consequences which make the whole country a lot less competitive. eg the best person for the job will often point blank refuse to do it now, as if the short term assignment is a long way from home trying to travel & use hotels becomes too expensive tax wise. so this drops the quality of the countries output.
January 15, 2026
‘If trains received no subsidies and were taxed as cars are’ – but you’re looking at things from a narrow perspective (that may or may not have value). What about people taking the train to work in the City of London so that they can relax and work on the train?
Having to drive into London would be stressful before they even got into work and they wouldn’t be able to do any work in the car. Not saying this is a winning argument. But we have to look at everything why trains are a good idea for our economy – or not (and also what it means to be a civilised country – as many people regard being able to take the train for work or for holidays / cultural experiences as part of what it means to be a civilised nation – a notion that goes back to Victorian times).
So a cultural element to the train not just economic. And if we strip our country of all its culture to save some money here and there then what’s the point of culture at all? (Again, not saying this argument is valuable or not but worth considering!)
January 15, 2026
Fine let them work on the train but make them pay the full cost why should car drivers or cyclists pay for their train trips?
January 16, 2026
Because workers in the City are being hit hard by taxation. The City of London, through tax, pays for so much for our NHS, welfare system. If there is one thing where they need some relief, it is to be able to travel into work hassle-free on the train and to be able to do work on the train as well.
January 16, 2026
Lastly, 95% of Conservative voters are 9 to 5 workers and relatively happy to pay tax as long as they get value for money.
The 5% of the of the other Conservative voters are the super rich (and good luck to them). But they need to be careful not to forget the 95% of Tory voters, including those who commute into the City of London every day to work (the 5% of super rich generally don’t do that – they have wonderful houses in London that they stay in during the week and then go to their country retreat at weekends or fly abroad somewhere instead – and good luck to them but we need to focus also on the needs of the 95% of 9 to 5 ‘ordinary’ Conservative workers not just the super rich).
(A typical banker or stockbroker in the City is not of the super rich even though some of them are – the ones who are the best in the business are)
January 15, 2026
If it’s too stressful for workers to get to the City the companies need to move to where the workers can get to.
We don’t really copy other countries, we always have thought for ourselves.
Of course Alfred Sherman proposed turning the railway lines into roads so that workers could get straight into the centre of cities.
January 15, 2026
‘If it’s too stressful for workers to get to the City the companies need to move to where the workers can get to.
– Hi. Workers are dispersed all over the shires. Where as the City of London is located in a relatively small area. That’s one good reason! Another reason is that lots of people who work in these companies in London also live in London and love London as a place to live with their families.
So if we want to help keep London as a world leader in finance and other sectors, then we need to ensure we have good commuter trains into London!
January 15, 2026
I think they’re seeing things very much from a London perspective (there’s a surprise).
Outside London, travelling to work by train is virtually a fringe activity. The percentage of journeys to work by rail is in single digits.
Modern businesses are located on windswept business parks on the edge of town, located where they are due to access to a motorway junction. Usually no railway station anywhere near.
January 16, 2026
+1
January 16, 2026
What’s wrong with seeing things from London perspective?!
London is our capital city and generates huge revenues for our economy from the City of London (and from tourism etc). Why shouldn’t we have a good railway in and out of London (like you find in other Western countries around the world)?!
Not just for economic ones (mainly) but also cultural/patriotic ones where people take the train for the day or weekend to see and enjoy cultural events in their capital city?!
January 16, 2026
It’s like everyone hates London now – left-wingers and-right wingers. I love London. Never get tired of it. The opposite. And it’s part of being a patriot, loving your capital city which happens to be a great city anyway – for patriotic reasons or not.
January 16, 2026
I happen to spend a lot of time in the wonderful shires too, a commuterish train-ride away from London where I live. I think to myself, EVERY DAY, how lucky / blessed I am to live in this GREAT country (as it is now). Sure, we got big problems. But don’t let our big problems define us who we are as a nation. That’s boring and wrong. Let’s fight them. But not to forget that already this country is GREAT in so many ways still.
We need to CHEER UP as a nation! (And be grateful for so much we already have!)
“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.” – J.B. Priestley
January 15, 2026
Infrastructure projects are always a problem in this country, because we give far too much sway to silly single issue groups.
At the moment, the green environmentalists have traction and many projects have inflated costs to satisfy the afore group. We have all heard about HS2 and the multi million pound BBC at Tunnel for example.
Common sense is no longer common in the UK amongst the politician classes.
January 15, 2026
Afore should read aforementioned.
January 15, 2026
This sort of well researched post from JR is worth reading carefully. I have friends in the North and the current railway arrangements are slow and the carriages are ancient. A better cross-Pennines link is necessary because in the winter the road link is frequently cut by snow (Snake Pass)
The Northern Powerhouse was one of Osborne’s better ideas. It’s a pity that he didn’t organise a proper funding model and drive it through. Now, a decade and a half later with interest rates so high its going to cost much more
Upgrading the signalling to modern standards would make a difference to both track capacity and train speed. There may be technical reasons why this has not yet been done
January 15, 2026
Your friends must be long dead. Ever heard of the M62?
January 15, 2026
Ha Ha …..I have a broad grin on my face…thank you Lynn.
January 15, 2026
“The Northern Powerhouse was one of Osborne’s better ideas.”
Are you joking!
This scheme decimated thousands of Civil Service jobs in towns across the North of England. Where I live, we lost 4,000 badly needed jobs. We had the cheapest accommodation in the country with the most efficient workforce. Osborne thought it a good idea to move our jobs to Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield and Newcastle, where offices were leased at extortionate rates, and it wasn’t easy to find good workers as competition was high.
Contrast this with Margaret Thatcher, who took the right approach. She moved jobs from the expensive South to Northern towns. She created an efficient workforce, and the productivity was amazing.
It’s no wonder productivity in the Civil Service has reduced in recent years.
January 15, 2026
Fine but at the real cost for fares say £4 a mile there is virtually zero real demand. Or for HS2,prob. over £20 per mile so inept are they!
January 15, 2026
It would be worth remembering what rail is exceptionally good at. Moving repeat heavy bulk loads from ports to central distribution points up and down the country. Also for moving bulk such as coal and ore from pit head or quarry to the power stations or smelters without clogging up our roads with thousands and thousands of lorries every day.
Now with that in mind it should not come as a shock to realise the core feature of rail transport movement of bulk freight no longer exists while our Net Zero policies are being pursued thus rail is another stranded technology only existing via tax payer support as a legacy to its past.
The use of rail around our major cities is obviously beneficial for passenger transport. Those areas of rail should be profitable to operate, but only if run efficiently by good management. Sadly they are not making profits because they are run as cash cows by the unions.
We live in hope of change, but are increasingly frustrated at the lack of economic reality in our public sector run activities.
I am sure the efficiency gains secured by the recent huge pay increases awarded to all public sectors by the (union sponsored) Labour government will kick in at some point, well they might, had they sought any…..
January 15, 2026
Not very much they are good at moving coal to power station perhaps but mad Ed will not allow that. Unless it is young coal (US murdered forests).
January 15, 2026
The faults of the railway system are entirely the fault of the previous and the present Government, a plague on both their houses.
January 15, 2026
You think the fault of those governing when they were ‘privatised’?
The EU in other words?
I agree.
January 15, 2026
It’s just a signal to Labour’s former heartlands that “Labour still cares about them” when it patently doesn’t.
All it will do is keep some expensive civil design engineers in taxpayer-funded jobs for a few years, carrying out surveys (including a great many environmental ones) and drawing pretty plans …. which will never result in a spade in the ground.
January 15, 2026
How very true. An army of ‘consultants’ for just about everything going. Millions spent, warehouse loads of documents produced and yet ,everything seems to stay the bloody same!!
Millions, if not billions, shelled out for talking shops stuffed to the gills with those allegedly at the top of their field, who often just state the bleeding obvious or show they don’t really know how the every day nuts and bolts of the subject works. It’s all a ‘look important and shuffle some papers’ exercise.
No matter, the money keeps pouring in.
The problem is no one is actually truly accountable for the fleecing of the public, are they.
January 15, 2026
Successive Governments seem to have a fixation with rail, instead of just accepting some of its obvious limitations.
Rail is a fine way to travel if you can afford it, and the start and end journey is a very short distance from the Station.
One person going by rail into London or any large city is only worth it if the journey is not too far in distance, as the cost and availability of Parking, ULEZ, and Congestion charges add to the standard cost of using a car.
Longer distances or more people will favour the car as the most efficient and cost effective, even given the extra charges Outlined, are then set against more passengers in the one vehicle.
January 15, 2026
“government spends 30 times as much per rail mile travelled on trains as it spends per mile travelled on roads.”
Astonishing. Add in fuel duty, road tax, vat on car sales, and the net difference is truly massive.
January 15, 2026
How many more times do we have to spell it out Parliament cant do things, at best they can only create frameworks for others to get on with what is needed.
How much proof does Parliament need that neither themselves or the Establishment(the BLOB) they manage, organise and run have the Worlds worst record on delivery.
Its no good keep re-running things that fail in the manner they fail and then expect a different outcome, you would have to be a lunatic to expect different.
January 15, 2026
“More fast trains could be combined with stopping trains by building more short sections of by pass or overtaking track along key routes”
Yes, incremental change for incremental improvement Sir John – especially if you cannot do big & complicated it seems…
However, a fundamental rethink of railway use should be undertaken to both link demand to provision and to encoursge the movement of heavy & bulk frieght off the roads.
I use the railway when I have to go into London (which I do not do if I can avoid it) but it is slow and inconvenient. All of my other journeys are by car. Quicker, less expensive and door to door – with all the stuff Mrs T demands to travel with (including the kitchen sink) easily transported. Get the big trucks off our Motorways by charging by weight/mile – including the foreign ones. (Re)build freight distribution hubs and automate not just signalling but the trains themselves. A robot train doesn’t mind waiting, no more than a parcel does. Pay per mile is coming anyway I suspect, so start with heavy transport. They are harder to electrify than the train network and would free up much needed road space.
January 15, 2026
Apparently an initial £1.1bn has been earmarked for design and preparation work and preparation , with construction not expected to start until after 2030. That sounds an awful lot of money for consultants at the taxpayers’ expense. Nice work if you can get it!
January 15, 2026
Taking all the data as correct AND the government has these same figures, I’d suggest they actually read them and think again of the damage that mad policies have done and continue to do so to OUR now little Britain.
Are they so complicated that a succession of Ministers have buried their heads in the sand and relied upon political career professional Mandarins and Civil servants to tell them what to do?
Why doesn’t any Government take on specialists from the Private Sector to advise on such matters? After all, what Civil Servant has any hands-on experience building railways? Ditto Transport Ministers.
Knowledge is Power!
January 15, 2026
Well the line between Middlesborough and Sunderland needs an upgrade. but the people in the Labour party shouting about “The North” seem to consider Manchester/Leeds/maybe Liverpool if you are lucky “The North”. They aint been to, or ever mentioning, Barrow, or Carlisle, and they aint been to the places on the East like Sunderland or Middlesbrough either. They dont have a prioritised list of where investments could have the biggest impact on the country, worked out factually and scientifically. They just have a lot of prejudices. The public sector including Network Rail HQ are just as bad.
This is another massive weakness of the Labour party that the opposition parties should be hammering them on.
But sadly I dont see this getting fixed no matter who wins elections, the incumbent blob of senior public sector are doing exactly what they want regardless of what politicians swan in or out.
January 15, 2026
Always amused me that both Milibands, Mandelson, both Balls and Blair all represented constituencies north of the River Don, all “local” lads undoubtedly passionate about getting the very best for their area, lol.
January 15, 2026
yep. Conservatives are no better in regard to parachuting in favourites of the centre who have no local connections at all.
January 15, 2026
HS2 was never devised to provide additional capacity and make rail travel affordable and reliable between London and the North. If it was it would have been designed for affordability and capacity and not speed. We should have had the rail equivalent of a jumbo jet and instead Parliament went for a Concorde both for vanity and to enable MPs and civil servants to travel at speed up and down the country and, of course, provide a connecting rail link from the North to the EU. The high speed was designed to ensure that it would be unaffordable except for those travelling at tax-payers’ expense. It has now just become a white elephant but is still seen by the socialists as a great way to spend vast quantities of tax-payers’ money in order to justify high taxation and impoverish the nation. So it will continue.
January 15, 2026
O R
Agreed HS2 was too short a route for a very high speed train to give it/us any real advantage.
125 Mph is probably about the right top speed for the sensible existing station distances within the size of our Country. Saving 10 mins over 100 mile route at the cost of tens of £ Billions was just a nonsense calculation and decision.
The whole HS2 Saga was just a political vanity project (my train is faster than your train boast) to try and compete with France, which has a very much bigger land mass and longer routes, where time saved then becomes a little more important !
January 15, 2026
The folly of HS2 cost £billions and helped to bring a change of government ….and it continues to do so, it seems that Labour have learnt nothing from recent history
I hatred my local morning train journey (25mins) as I could never get a seat; they purchased (using taxpayers funds) new trains and refurb the stations ….I still didn’t get a seat !
January 15, 2026
GC:
I, too, could never get a seat. So I purchased a fishing chair and at the beginning sat in the 1st class corridor. I now never travel on UK trains without it.
January 15, 2026
Rather than pumping all this money into rail, we should be giving tax breaks to regional airports. Excessive airport tax has forced commercial flights away from my local airport, so now hundreds of thousands of passengers have to travel to Manchester. Our local airport is now a very convenient destination for the rich and famous tax dodgers to fly in from the Isle of Man and park up their jets, whereas the local people get no benefit from an airport they built and funded. This is another example of the Government taxing a viable business out of existence and channelling money into the cities.
January 15, 2026
One example that proves to me that the civil service should never be allowed to arrange the design and build of any infrastructure was the Scottish Parliament building. Labour in government thought it was a good idea to give the design to a SPANISH architect of no real standing. The front of the building is covered by bamboo ! Really scottish ! Could even argue it was a reminder of slavery days. The building consists of several different sized leaf shaped sections… leaves get very narrow at the ends, try holding a meeting ! Every window was a different size. The estimated cost was £40 million and it ended up costing £400 million. The project was overseen by a civil servant who had absolutely no experience in construction projects. It is projected as a great structure … it is a disaster.
HS2 smells much the same. Massive investment and disruption to knock a few minutes off a journey. Started under labour but kept alive by the tories. Total waste of money. Far better use of money and time to get ultra fast broadband to EVERY part of the UK and concentrate on making the railways more efficient.
January 15, 2026
HIgh speed trains can only be H/S if they do not stop much. But if that is the case then end connections are longer so longer door to door times anyway and less energy efficient too. An HS train catch 22! esp in the smallish UK
January 15, 2026
Not really. With the incredible pulling power – torque of the electric motors, the trains will certainly take off like a scalded cat reaching high speed in a short distance.
January 15, 2026
wonder why the political journalists are not watching the public reaction to the “pay per mile” plans from the government, even the strongest Labour supporters and pro electric car enthusiasts are completely anti.
not only has this dipped even further the real sales of electric cars (not the fraudulent ones fabricated by preregistering cars which sit in fields unused, and similar techniques putting cars on and off sale on autotrader in manipulative ways).
this must be changing the election prospects of various people and parties. its also going to lead to lots of people ditching EV’s completely, with lots of unintended consequences.
state market manipulation like this is always a bad plan.
January 15, 2026
171 ‘unknown illegal immigrants’ invaded the UK yesterday 14th Jan 2026 ….
January 15, 2026
GC:
Are you sure they’re unknown to our ruling elite?
January 15, 2026
elite? Are you sure you found the right word for them?
January 16, 2026
Hi sir john
My main railway station is new street station in Birmingham the fumes from desil trains are really bad when I have to use this station the fumes make me feel ill
I have complained to the station but they just joked about the fumes which I found very insulting.
I have also complained to Birmingham city Council but they are a waste of time
My MP Andrew Michell is also not interested .
you have to think Of the poor staff that dispatched the trains
The fumes must be really bad for their health
Thank you