Latest coverage

11th June

Railtrack back - click here (second item down) (Sunday Telegraph)

1st February

Byers says 'sorry' for Railtrack - click here (BBC News Online)

Byers ordered to apologise again for misleading MPs  - click here (D. Telegraph)

Byers rebuked for misleading MPs - click here (Independent)

Byers cleared of lying over Railtrack - click here (Times Online)

Byers to apologise to Commons - click here (Guardian)

Byers rebuked over Railtrack - click here (Daily Mail)

23rd January 2006

'Grannies' adviser at heart of QinetiQ sale controversy - click here (D. Telegraph)

16th December 2005

Network Rail seeks a debt issue buffer - click here (D. Telegraph)

25th November

Rules off track [scroll down to last item] - click here (Times Online)

16th November

 A verdict beyond belief [scroll down to link near bottom of page]- click here (Rail Professional)

25th October

Hansard record of Opposition debate on Railtrack - click here

24th October

Clarke back for Railtrack attack on Brown - click here (ePolitix.com)

20th October

'I cannot tell a lie, but I can talk a load of old gibberish' - click here (Times Online)

19th October

Byers facing ethics probe over Railtrack  - click here (Times Online)

18th October

Byers accused over Railtrack apology  - click here (D. Telegraph)

18th October

Byers faces more questions after apology over Railtrack  - click here (Guardian)

17th October

MP seeks inquiry into Byers' rail 'untruth' - click here (D. Telegraph)

16th October

 Focus: the man who ate Railtrack - click here (Sunday Times)

15th October - more coverage of the verdict

Daily Telegraph article

Daily Telegraph Business leader

Independent

Guardian

Times Online

also in the Daily Mail (no website version)

14th October - coverage of the verdict:

Sky News

BBC News Online

Daily Telegraph

Times Online

Guardian

14th October

Day of reckoning for Byers and Railtrack - click here (D. Telegraph)

14th October

Shareholders wary as Railtrack verdict looms - click here (Reuters)

13th October

Last-ditch plea to Goldsmith says judge was misled - click here (D. Telegraph)

25th August

Autumn Judgement for Railtrack Shareholders - click here (RailwayPeople.com) 

2nd August

Regulator says ministers thwarted plan to save Railtrack - click here (The Scotsman)

1st August

Ex-regulator enters Railtrack row - click here (BBC News Online)

1st August

Tory to lodge protest after 'another Railtrack cover up'  - click here (D. Telegraph)

31st July

Government left Railtrack in the lurch, by Tom Winsor:

shorter version - click here

and

longer version - click here

(Financial Times)

23rd July  

The minister, his advisers and the plot to kill Railtrack - click here (Times Online)

23rd July

The revenge tragedy that quickly turned into a farce - click here (D. Telegraph)

22nd July

Byers need never have admitted lying to Parliament - lawyers  - click here (Interactive Investor)

22nd July

Byers 'must have had something to hide' - click here (D. Telegraph)

22nd July

Railtrack case closes with Byers under fire again  - click here (Financial Times) 

22nd July

Gordon waves two fingers  - click here (Times Online)

22nd July

Railtrack shareholders vow to keep pressure on Byers - click here (Independent)

21st July

Lawyer tries to have Byers 'lie' struck out  - click here (D. Telegraph)

19th July

Railtrack diary  - click here (D. Telegraph)

17th July

Railtrack shares trial exposes ministers with a license to steal, by Simon Jenkins - click here

and 

Focus: Once upon a train... - click here

(Sunday Times)

17th July

Byers may land Brown with a £21bn bill - click here 

and

Follow the money - click here

(Sunday Telegraph)

16th July

Byers aide admits seeking to delay Railtrack deal - click here 

and

Byers could face MPs' inquiry over his Railtrack lie - click here 

(D. Telegraph)

16th July

'Troublesome grannies' may end Byers' hopes of a Cabinet return  - click here

and

Byers defended by mandarin  - click here 

(Times Online)

15th July

Tories urge probe on Byers 'lie' - click here 

and

In detail: Byers court exchanges - click here

(BBC News Online)

15th July

I did lie over Railtrack but can't remember why, says Byers - click here 

and 

leader: Byers is unfit for office - click here 

(D. Telegraph)

15th July

Byers admits he did not tell truth over Railtrack  - click here 

and

Guilty of brazen contempt - click here

and 

Byers admission on Railtrack strengthens case for investors  - click here 

and

Hint of payout on Railtrack [second item] - click here 

(Times Online)

15th July

Byers admits he lied to MPs over Railtrack's prospects - click here (Independent)

15th July

Byers admits he misled MPs about Railtrack - click here (Guardian)

15th July

Byers faces inquiry over Railtrack 'lie' - click here (Daily Mail)

14th July

Byers admits lying over Railtrack  - click here (BBC News Online)

14th July

Byers 'misled MPs' over Railtrack plea for cash  - click here (D. Telegraph)

14th July

Byers accused of 'covering tracks' over Railtrack - click here (Independent)

13th July

Byers in the dock - click here (BBC News Online) 

13th July

Former minister denies 'targeted malice' to force administration - click here (D. Telegraph)

13th July

I always put public interest first, says Byers - click here

and

He resembled anything but the lethal assassin of Railtrack demonisation - click here

(Independent)

13th July

Byers denies plotting Railtrack collapse - click here (Times Online)

12th July

Ex-minister denies Railtrack plan - click here (BBC News Online)

12th July

Byers' man 'told off for jumping the gun on Railtrack'  - click here (D. Telegraph)

12th July

Court hears of attempt to sell Railtrack to the secretive Bechtel - click here (Independent)

11th July

The 300-year-old beginnings of Byers' day in court  - click here (D. Telegraph)

9th July

Insolvency notes about Railtrack 'were just ideas'  - click here (D. Telegraph)

9th July

Byers called Railtrack 'basket case' court told  - click here (Times Online)

9th July

Rail mandarin 'understated' Railtrack fears - click here (Independent)

9th July

Holding the Government to account - click here (Interactive Investor)

8th July

Government left Railtrack to sink, says chairman  - click here (D. Telegraph)

8th July

'Railtrack wasn't bust until October' - click here (Independent)

7th July

Railtrack's chairman thought he had backing  - click here

and

MPs attack cost of Network Rail debt  - click here

(D. Telegraph)

7th July

Railtrack chairman 'had no hint of loss of support'  - click here (Times Online)

7th July

Railtrack chairman 'never felt that plug was about to be pulled' - click here (Independent)

7th July

Railtrack chief says he expected a rescue - click here (Guardian)

6th July

Byers 'was right about bust basket case'  - click here (D. Telegraph)

6th July

Idea that Byers tried to damage Railtrack 'perfectly absurd' - click here (Independent)

6th July

Railtrack failed 'because of management incompetence'  - click here (Times Online)

6th July

Railtrack shareholder claims absurd - QC - click here (Guardian)

5th July

No malice in Byers' Railtrack decision, defence to argue  - click here 

and

Put Corbett in the frame, said Byers - click here

and

City Comment: How scorned 'grannies' of Railtrack have taught City big boys a lesson - click here

(D. Telegraph)

5th July

ONS chief subpoenaed in Railtrack court battle - click here (Independent0

5th July

Need to Know [first item]  - click here Times Online)

4th July

Byers wished to 'kill' Railtrack - click here ((BBC News Online)

3rd July

'We will sue the Government for billions'  - click here,

and 

'It would be our duty to sue'  - click here  

and

Why did Railtrack surrender?  - click here 

(Sunday Telegraph)

3rd July

Blair took decision to 'extinguish' regulator  - click here  

and 

How they spun Railtrack into oblivion  - click here

(Sunday Times)

3rd July

Railtrack: mystery of missing memo - click here (Observer)

2nd July

Whitehall 'frustrated Railtrack rescue'  - click here, 

and

Byers had backing of Blair and Brown over Railtrack, say lawyers  - click here

(D. Telegraph)

2nd July

Small investors fighting back  - click here (Times Online)

1st July

Judge queries Byers version of talks - click here (Daily Mail)

1st July

Byers 'pretended to help fund Railtrack'  - click here (D. Telegraph)

1st July

Adviser to Brown 'argued against Railtrack bailout'  - click here (Times Online)

30th June

Leader: The case against Byers - click here, 

Treasury 'was at centre of plan to force Railtrack into insolvency'  - click here,

Railtrack controversy threatens Chancellor - click here 

(D. Telegraph)

30th June

Blair told Byers he 'favoured Railtrack takeover' - click here (Times Onlline)

30th June

Railtrack trial told of Treasury plan to push group towards insolvency - click here (Independent)

29th June

Evidence against Railtrack was 'thin'  - click here , and How Blair pressed for a takeover of Railtrack - click here  (D. Telegraph)

29th June

Byers 'was ready with £1bn rail offer'  - click here (Times Online)

29th June

Byers wanted Railtrack investors 'to go quietly' - click here (Independent)

29th June

Railtrack investors lost £1bn 'to go quietly' - click here (Guardian)

29th June

Byers ready 'to pay shareholders' -  click here (BBC Online News)

28th June

Minister 'stole rail investors' £160m'  - click here (Times Online)

28th June

Byers 'stole Railtrack from small shareholders with targeted malice'  - click here (D. Telegraph)

28th June

Railtrack £1bn payoff plan claim  - click here (BBC News Online)

28th June

'Liar Byers in rail rip-off' - click here (Sun)

28th June

Railtrack case goes to High Court - click here,  Day in Court for Railtrack Shareholders - click here,  How can 50,000 people go to court? - click here. (BBC Online News) 

28th June

Byers 'lied about Railtrack renationalisation' - click here (Independent)

28th June

Byers accused of lying over bankrupt Railtrack as shareholders take ex-minister to court - click here (Guardian)

27th June

How can 50,000 people go to court? - click here (BBC New Online)

27th June

Byers 'lied' over Railtrack - claim - click here (Daily Mail)

26th June

Focus: Railtrack's revenge  - click here (Sunday Times)

26th June

Railtrack case 'holds no fears' for Byers - click here (Observer)

26th June

Byers to answer charge that he misled Railtrack's shareholders  - click here (Sunday Telegraph)

25th June

The Railtrack shareholders see light at the end of the tunnel  - click here (D. Telegraph)

25th June

Liar Byers (Part 2) - click here  (Daily Mail)

This is a scanned copy of Tom Bower's excellent piece, which is not included in the web version of the Daily Mail

24th June

Railtrack case will be largest class action - click here (Reuters) 

23rd June 

Railtrack investors get day in court  - click here (D. Telegraph)

23rd June

Railtrack investors put Byers in the dock - click here (Independent)

23rd June

Byers faces three-day Railtrack grilling - click here (Guardian)

18th June

Tom Winsor: How Railtrack blew it  - click here (D. Telegraph)

13th June

Byers looked into pulling plug on Railtrack earlier - click here (D. Telegraph)

10th June

Railtrack's collapse was mapped out weeks ahead  - click here, and the associated City Comment  "Sir Humphrey's huffing and puffing won't steer shareholders off track" - click here  (D. Telegraph)

9th June

How Whitehall weighed Railtrack options   - click here (D Telegraph)

9th June

Plan to nationalise Railtrack revealed 'in error'  - click here (Times Online)

2nd June

Railtrack shareholders raise enough steam for day in court
 - click here (D. Telegraph)

2nd June

Gotchoo [second item down]  - click here (The Sun)

2nd June

Railtrack shareholders raise extra cash to sue government - click here (Guardian)

2nd June

Railtrack group set for hearing - click here (Independent)

2nd June

Call for Network Rail bosses to give up half their bonuses [the footnote is the relevant item]  - click here (Times)

15th May

Train plotters - click here  (The Lawyer magazine of 2nd May)

11th May

Thousands sue over Railtrack  - click here (Western Morning News)

4th May

May the grannies raise the funds for Railtrack battle  - click here (D. Telegraph leader)

2nd May

Whitehall papers undermine Byers  - click here (D. Telegraph)

1st May

Blair ‘knew of plan to hasten Railtrack’s end’  - click here (Sunday Times)

30th April

'We're unable to find any killer facts' - click here,  How they nobbled Winsor the wild card  - click here,  Railtrack: a worthy campaign with unjust costs - click here  (D. Telegraph)

30th April

Railtrack investors angry at DoT emails - click here  (Guardian)

30th April

E-mails expose Railtrack fears - click here (Independent)

29th April

Labour called Railtrack shareholders 'grannies'  - click here,  How Labour plotted Railtrack's downfall - click here,  Railtrack clambers from the grave to haunt Labour - click here  (D. Telegraph)

24th April

Railtrack investors pledge to fight on  - click here (This is London/Evening Standard)

23rd April

Costs ratcheted up to kill suit, says Railtrack group - click here , and City Comment 'Wanted: £900,000 to see justice done at Railtrack' - click here  (D. Telegraph)

23rd April

Action group to seek extra funds for Railtrack fight  (Times) - click here

23rd April

Extra £25 each buys last chance in high court, Railtrack investors told  (Guardian) - click here 

23rd April

Railtrack shareholder group in race against time to salvage court action (Independent) - click here  

23rd April 

Railtrack investors continue case  (BBC Online) - click here

23rd April

The Rover scandal  (The Spectator) - click here

23rd April

Railtrack action cash plea (Financial Times) - click here 

21st April

Railtrack protesters seek rescuer for legal fight against Government (Times Online) - click here

21st April

Court blow to Railtrack's shareholders - click here , and City Comment  (3rd item) 'It's not over for stricken Railtrack shareholders' -  click here  (D. Telegraph)

21st April

Costs ruling threatens rail group's action  (Financial Times) - click here

21st April

Railtrack investors in cash plea after judge backs Government (Independent) - click here

21st April

Judge calls time on Railtrack action (Guardian) - click here

20th April

You can't afford the fight, Rail investors told  - click here , and the associated City Comment - click here  (D. Telegraph)

For an archive of earlier newspaper coverage, click here