Articles by Paul Clifton

Richard Brown, former chief executive and chairman of Eurostar, says the plan for GBR “is quite superficial, full of ambition and fine words, with little in it”

Southeastern Railway and Network Rail Kent Route will now be known as South Eastern Railway.

Transport Select Committee hears more evidence as it investigates "boom and bust" in rail investment.

Network Rail will pay up to £850,000 to compensate businesses disrupted by the prolonged closure of the main road next to Oxford station.

Lord Hendy and Sir Andrew Haines will return to Oxford to speak to locals angered by the three-year project to replace a bridge.

…but what difference will it make to services and passengers? Paul Clifton canvasses the opinion of rail leaders on SWR’s past, present and future.

Network Rail’s recovery programme to stabilise performance between Reading and London Paddington has reached half time. Paul Clifton joins the project leaders.

South Western Railway became the first of ten operators to be nationalised as part of Labour's rail reform plans.

South Western Railway is first of three passenger train operators to be nationalised in 2025.

Formerly South West Trains, the operator that ran the first privatised service in 1996, is now under DFTO control.