Alexander must deliver a rail way fit for the 21st century

With nationalisation legislation in place, but Great British Railways still several years away from managing train operations, PHILIP HAIGH explains why the government has to fully engage with today’s railway

Philip Haigh Transport writer

SHE moved fast. And was gone. Louise Haigh’s tenure as Transport Secretary came to an abrupt end in the early morning of November 29, as she quit over a spent conviction for fraud over a lost-then-found mobile phone over a decade ago. The previous day, she’d been speaking at a set-piece event in Leeds to launch the Department for Transport’s integrated transport strategy that she said would be published next year. Her speech was more than a nod to Barbara Castle, the Labour transport minister in the 1960s who created local transport integration by way of Passenger Transport Executives (RAIL 1019), which co-ordinated buses and trains, unified fares and created consistent brands. Haigh said of Castle’s 1968 Transport Act: “At its core [it] was never a battle of car against…

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