The Observer index, January-December 2001 ... - Microform

* Review of It's My Story: Paddington/Vicar's Wives 07/10/01
R 20 5>8
* Review of Routes of English/Act First/Pride and Prejudice
14/10/01 R 20 1>4
* Review of Heroes or Zeroes/Adventures in Poetry/Work in
Progress 21/10/01 R 13 4>6
* Review of The World Today/Ivanov/Heart of the Matter
28/10/01 R 20 5>8
* Review of In the Psychiatrist's Chair/Blunt Speaking/Fatal
Loins/In Tune/Meridian Music Review 04/11/01 R 13 4>6
* Review of The Irving Trial/The Choice/Pick of the World
11/11/01 R 12 4>6
* Review of Crossing Continents/Start the Week/Meridian
18/11/01 R 13 7>8
* Review of Book of the Week: The Real Mrs Miniver/Making
Terror, Breaking Terror/Jimmy Young 25/11/01 R 11 1>5
* Review of The Archive Hour/Melly on Jelly/The Trojan
Women/Medea - Mapping the Edge/Dear Doctor
Goebbels/Brandreth on Office 02/12/01 R 15 5>8
* Review of Democracy and Language/Oxygen/You're
Sensational - The Cole Porter Story/Andre Previn's Music Hour
09/12/01 R 11 7>8
* Review of The Jimmy Young Show/Classic Serial - Don't
Look Now 16/12/01 R 13 4>6
* Radio of the Year: Sue Arnold 23/12/01 R 11 7>8 Photograph
* Review of Get Stuffed/Ned Sherrin's Theatrical Anecdotes/The
Archers 23/12/01 R 24 4>8
* Review of A Green Christmas/Frozen/Carols from King's
College/Comedy Store Special 30/12/01 R 13 3>5
RADIOHEAD
* See Music: Pop 15/07/01
RAILWAY INDUSTRY
* The railway industry is to be in disarray for another six months
28/01/01 N 2 2>6
* Cheap, reliable, safe - Europe's model railways put us to shame
04/02/01 B 13 1>8 Photographs
* Railtrack's SOS for £2bn 18/02/01 N 1 1>7
* Railtrack's unpretentious new chief executive has a superhuman
task in winning over the City - profile of Steve Marshall
25/02/01 N 6 1>5 Photograph
* The families of five of the 10 victims of the Selby rail crash
visited the site yesterday 04/03/01 B 2 5>6 Photograph
* 'Give us the chance to run rail network' says National Express
11/03/01 N 1 1>4
* Railtrack admits delays will stretch way past Easter 11/03/01
B 3 1>4
* Railtrack seeks £1.5bn to avoid losing vital 'A' rating 18/03/01
N 2 2>6
* The management of Britain's railways is so shambolic that
passengers safety is still being compromised, five months after
four people were killed in the Hatfield crash 18/03/01 B 5 6>8
* The cost to Railtrack of the Hatfield crash could double to
£1.2bn as train operators demand huge extra payments for lost
business 25/03/01 N 1 5>8
* Railtrack is close to luring Sir John Parker for what is widely
regarded as the most difficult job in British business today,
Chairman of Railtrack 25/03/01 N 6 1>4 Photograph
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* Automatic braking systems to prevent disaster such as
Paddington rail crash could cost up to £10bn and take at least 10
years 25/03/01 B 7 1>2
* Railtrack is to be stripped of it's key role in the second stage of
the Channel Tunnel rail link and replaced by US construction
giant Bechtel 01/04/01 N 1 1>7
* James Dunn, nine, the son of Steve Dunn, the freight train
driver killed in the Selby rail crash, clutches a teddy bear as he
attends a service for the 10 victims at York Minster 01/04/01 B
2 5 Photograph
* Train drivers are still passing red lights near London's
Paddington station because signals are confusing and often
blocked from view 01/04/01 B 5 1>3 Photograph
* Virgin is poised to sue Railtrack this week for up to £150m to
cover losses caused by disruption following last year's Hatfield
crash 15/04/01 N 2 2>6
* Labour is set to tackle the crisis in the rail industry with a
major shake-up that will include encouraging a takeover of all or
part of Railtrack if it wins the forthcoming general election
22/04/01 N 1 3>5
* Brussels wants to force other European railways to follow the
British example and separate infrastructure management from
train operators - but with special safeguards to 'avoid doing a
Railtrack' 22/04/01 N 7 1>2
* Railtrack's broken promises of a shiny new railway show the
limitations of the private sector 22/04/01 N 7 1>8 Photograph,
graph
* China's privatisation of its vast railways will copy the British
model by splitting them into passenger operators and a version
of Railtrack - see International Affairs: Far East 13/05/01
* John Robinson, the new chairman of Railtrack faces a tough
time 20/05/01 N 4 1>8 Photographs
* Railtrack is preparing to increase its demand for a taxpayerbacked
bail-out to £3bn, setting it on a collision course with the
Government and industry regulators 27/05/01 N 2 1>3
Photograph
* Railtrack and British Transport Police have deployed a
helicopter and photographer to monitor the worst areas in Britain
for rail vandalism and trespassing 10/06/01 B 9 1>6
Photographs
* Sir Alastair Morton is stepping down from his role as rail tsar
and could leave the post within weeks 24/06/01 N 1 1>7
* One of the government's most senior advisers on rail policy
has said that Railtrack should be broken up 01/07/01 N 2 6>8
Photograph
* Things may not get much better with Britain's rail service until
2016 15/07/01 B 1 1>7
* Railtrack must be broken up if the industry is to have any
chance of recovering from deep crisis 22/07/01 N 1 5>8
* Transport Secretary, Stephen Byers' short-term fix for the
railway industry is discouraging the private investment that
could get Britain back on track 22/07/01 N 4 1>7 Photographs
* Railtrack's new chairman, John Robinson, is set to axe
hundreds of senior and middle management jobs 05/08/01 N 1
4>6
* Railtrack directors and managers are almost certain to escape
corporate manslaughter charges for the Paddington rail crash
16/09/01 N 2 3>6
* The London Stock Exchange has launched an inquiry into
trading in Railtrack's shares 14/10/01 N 1 1>7
* Interview with Alan Bloom, the administrator charged with
bringing Railtrack back in line 14/10/01 N 16 1>5 Photograph