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CHAPTER NINE: Pentonville Road

Chapter 9 Footnotes
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Topic Source
243
I was making a nuisance of myself:
Interview with author, 2008
244
I had a very intensive six weeks:
Speaking on The Reunion: Rail Privatization, BBC Radio 4, September 2006
244
Cheap and cheerful:
The Guardian, 11 January 1992
244-5
Freeman’s ride:
Christian Wolmar, Stagecoach (1998) p 125/  The Guardian 13 May 1992
245
Major not very interested:
Wolmar, Broken Rails (2001) p 60
248
Our aim is simple:
Hansard, 15 July 1992
251
Lord Simon:
The Guardian, 4 November 1993
251
Nick Harvey:
Gourvish (2002) op. cit. p 400
251
120 special staff:
The Guardian, 28 October 1997
253
Consultants:
Wolmar (2001)p 75
256
Anderson’s gamble:
Wolmar (1998)p 147-150
256
National Audit Office:
The Guardian, 6 March 1998
257
National Audit Office again:
Terry Gourvish, Britain’s Railways 1997-2005: Labour’s Strategic Experiment (2008) p 6
258
Not a particularly large fraud:
The Guardian, 5 February 1996
259
Better litter bins:
Modern Railways, November 1999
262
Strang puts his finger on it:
Interview with author, 2008
264
Not much strategy:
Interview with author, 2008
265
Perverse incentives
The Guardian, 25 July 1998
267
Project Destiny:
Gourvish op. cit. (2008) p 67
267
The railways were ripped apart::
Quoted by Ian Jack, The Crash that Stopped Britain (2001) p 75
268
Where has all the money gone:
Interview with author, 2008/  Gourvish op. cit. (2008) p 190/ New Statesman, 14 June 2007
268-9
BR on borrowed time:
Interview with author, 2008
270
Punctuality is the most important thing:
BBC News, 11 June 2007
270
Safety better than under BR:
Interview with author, 2008
271
Highest fares in Europe:
Daily Telegraph, 31 March 2007
271
Permission to breathe in:
Interview with author, 2008
272
I hope they don’t come all at once:
Rail, 13 February 2008
272
Hoon’s chutzpah:
The Times, 1 December 2008
272
Bill Emery:
The Times, 3 June 2008
273
Bioengineered algae:
Rail Technical Strategy, July 2007, quoted in Modern Railways , October 2007

 

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