Heidi Alexander must deliver a railway fit for the 21st century

With nationalisation legislation in place, but Great British Railways still several years away from managing train operations, Philip Haigh explains why the government has to fully engage with today’s railway.

She moved fast. And was gone. Louise Haigh’s tenure as Transport Secretary came to an abrupt end in the early morning of November 29, as she quit over a spent conviction for fraud over a lost-then-found mobile phone over a decade ago.