Allrik Birch: We need private firms to re-build our rail network

The era of government-run railway infrastructure has been, for the most part, one of decline and a clear lack of ambition.

WATCH: Transport Secretary – “We will make a go, no go decision by the end of the year”

Shapps sets a tight deadline for his independent review into High Speed Two.

WATCH: ‘Anything is possible’ – Shapps on whether High Speed Two could be abandoned

The Transport Secretary this week ordered an independent commission to assess the railway’s costs and benefits.

Johnson won’t scrap HS2, but his review could make a big offer to the North

Building the northern sections first could provide a springboard for further projects and combat the idea that the former Mayor of London is too capital-focused.

Sponsored Post: Darren Caplan: Plea to the Government – please reveal your proposals to enhance the UK’s railways

A lack of information about upcoming work, reduces rail businesses’ investment, jobs, and skills development, and threatens the ability of smaller rail firms to survive.

WATCH: Corbyn presses May on Brexit preparations at PMQs

The Labour leader leads with the collapse of the Government’s contract with Seaborne Freight.

Nus Ghani: Our new measures will make taxis and minicabs safer for passengers

Whilst most drivers are pillars of the community, recent events have shown how regulation and protections can be tightened.

Another review won’t spare ministers the need to grasp the nettle of railway reform

Public anger over disruption, fare increases, and cancelled investment needs to be answered – or they will be tempted by Labour’s calls for nationalisation.

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.

If HS2’s bill keeps inflating, it might yet explode the whole scheme

The project is already well over its original price. Some dream of abandoning it.

Justine Greening and Zac Goldsmith: Wrong scheme, wrong place – Heathrow’s third runway should never take off

Support for expansion is the prevailing wisdom, but it’s demonstrably wrong – even using the Department for Transport’s own figures.

Does the rail crisis suggests limits to political accountability in the age of quangos?

Chris Grayling has reportedly “informed Network Rail that this must not happen again”, even as he faced a Commons vote of no confidence.

Chris Grayling: Tory members should step forward to help the Year of Engineering

We need to inspire young people into these careers if we are to deliver our ambitious infrastructure agenda and the industrial strategy.

Sponsored Post: Darren Caplan: Rail funding is heading in the right direction, but more must be done to smooth ‘boom and bust’

Since my last article, there has been real progress to improve rail funding overall. Next we should consider how to reduce uncertainty within the supply chain.

Rees-Mogg should be offered a Ministerial post

No, we don’t believe that he should be the next Tory leader. But he would make a better Minister than some of those now in place.