Christian Wolmar

As the School for Railway Children breaks up for the summer holidays after a turbulent year, CHRISTIAN WOLMAR turns headmaster to give his end-of-term report on the performance of its classes and pupils - and reveals there will be few prizes given at this year’s speech day. It has been a bad year for all the classes and pupils at the School for Railway Children, but some have fared worse than ...

Railtrack’s collapse, emergency speed restrictions, and soaring costs: the railway is still in crisis. CHRISTIAN WOLMAR argues that a ‘back to basics’ approach represents the best solution. The most worrying aspect of the crisis in the railways is that no one has any real idea of how to get out of the mess. Certainly, there are plenty of schemes and blueprints floating about, some are even vaguely coherent. But no one ...