Any hopes that the new transport secretary may herald a thaw in the ongoing round of industrial disputes on the British railways will have to wait. The new face at the Department for Transport, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, the member of parliament for Berwick-upon-Tweed, will find her induction shelved for over a week. Even though she has already taken up her desk at 33 Horseferry Road, the death of Queen Elizabeth, puts the UK very much on hold.