Grayling once again the fall guy for the nation’s rail network failings

Once again the allegedly parlous state of the nation’s railways dominated media coverage of transport towards the end of July, and the papers were in no doubt about who was to blame. Rik Thomas reports

The media's apparent obsession with linking transport secretary Chris Grayling to everything that is wrong with the UK’s transport system in general, and its rail network in particular, returned with a vengeance towards the end of July. Grayling perhaps did himself no favours by telling the House of Commons’ transport select committee on 23 July that he was “not a specialist in rail matters” when being questioned on what The Daily Mirror referred to as “the rail...

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