[4][5] He is regularly called before the Transport Select Committee of the UK Parliament to give evidence and opinion.
[14] He has written opinion and analysis for The Times, and provided specialist rail industry comment for, among others, the BBC's Today programme.
[15][16][17] One major project has been editing and researching for A New Illustrated History of Her Majesty's Railway Inspectorate, by Ian Prosser and David Keay.
[6] He was the principal witness at a televised select committee meeting on 26 May 2021 discussing the Williams-Shapps White Paper on Great British Railways formation.
[25] His description of British Rail Class 46 locomotive number 46009 being destructively smashed into a nuclear flask to demonstrate safety was shown on national television.
[29] In January 2012, he was interviewed by the BBC for a mini-documentary news item "Inside the new-look London King's Cross railway station".
[2] When the Integrated Rail Plan for the North and Midlands was published in November 2021, he called it an act of political spinelessness, saying it created a new east-west divide in the country.
[2] He called it hugely damaging for the public, echoing the Newcastle Member of Parliament Catherine McKinnell,[44] and raised concern about the blight on people's lives with the cancellation.
[45] When interviewed by The Independent he said the Leeds station upgrade being called part of the IRP by the government was not spin but dishonesty.