Grayling needs to show he is not just in charge of the clattering train, but is modernising it

The Transport Secretary’s announcement this week about price indices sounded timid and technocratic.

Rail strikers squeeze money out of the many, for the few

Yet again a strike which was supposedly about safety has gone away now that a large amount of money has been secured.

Strikes are relatively rare – but it isn’t acceptable that certain services are still regularly disrupted by them

The transport sector is yet to shake off the bad habit of mass industrial action. Tougher rules may be needed.

Andrew Allison: Grayling must find his inner Reagan – and smash the rail strike that is holding commuters to ransom

If those striking drivers and guards don’t want to sign new contracts, that is their decision, and if they don’t, they must be shown the door.