Action on the Great Western Franchise

Hereford has been the terminus for through inter-city trains to/from London for many years since the days of the original Great Western Railway. Perhaps the most famous train was the Cathedrals Express, where one could get a civilised breakfast! However, over the last...

The Secretary of State for Transport Announcement

The Department for Transport spin doctors obviously had the Christmas spirit in them when they gave the Transport Minister a bag of rail goodies to announce. Reopening railway lines and stations and hints of measures to transfer more freight from road to rail were the...