A thoughtful piece from Chris Jackson highlighting the clear connection between advanced economies and successful, effective railways. Of the 1.6m km running today, the densest networks serve the most advanced economies. Jackson nevertheless argues that high costs, tight finances and increasingly effective competition mean that railways must become sharper. He makes the interesting point that early signalling systems evolved to keep trains apart whole modern equivalents seek to bring them closer together. - NH
We read it in: Railway Gazette International, May 2015, page 3
