Views on the Rail Industry
Several of the directors of FCP write regular columns in magazines, as well as less regular pieces in other publications:
- John Nelson, our Chairman, writes Nelson's Column in Transit Magazine every month;
- Peter Wilkinson, our Managing Director, writes in various publications; and
- Richard George, one of our directors, writes a regular column in our magazine (FCP Quarterly), as well as in other publications from time to time
Latest Views
There's No Case for Gating East Coast Stations
26th April 2009
National Express East Coast's plans to gate stations are justified on the grounds that gating is "commonplace". Not true, says John Nelson, who points to Germany as an example of why NXEC's proposals are shortsighted.
Shock news: market forces apply to the railway
3rd August 2007
The 'Big News' at the time of writing is that unregulated rail fares have gone up by nearly 20% over the last 10 years and are likely to go up by another 30% over the next 10.
"Shout it to the top - the UK is again a world leader in railways"
18th September 2008
The rail mode is undergoing one of the most radical periods of change in recent decades. Technological progress and its application to speed, safety and traffic management have created new, highly efficient rail transport services, synonymous with a renaissance. This is particularly true of the Southern Network and West Coast where there has been the wide scale and massive introduction of new trains, and technologies. This is backed up by cross-industry Performance Improvement Planning (PIP) arrangements. Nowhere else in the world is railway performance so transparently investigated and reported.