Letter to The Times: Lack of resilience of today’s railway
Sir. The collapse of the train services out of King’s Cross and Paddington after the announcement...
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Let’s spell it out: cars are a menace
By Christian Wolmar and Pearl Ahrens In terms of transport, the new post-pandemic normal is looking...
Rail 928: It’s the passengers who count
The future of rail has been rather a long time coming. The report on ‘Trains fit...
Rail 927: Cutting costs on the railways is not easy
Let’s assume that ‘back to normal’ is, say, an 80 per cent railway. In other words,...
March 2021 Newsletter
Christian Wolmar’s March newsletter: Anonymity is killing fair debate Dear subscriber, The ferocity of the arguments...
High costs are damaging the potential for rail recovery
One of the worst outcomes of the privatisation of the railways a quarter of a century...
Letter to The Guardian: When I played at Wentworth golf course
Wentworth golf club was not always that posh (The rich vs the very, very rich: the...
rail 926: Integrated transport, an old concept that must be revived
Remember ‘integrated transport’. It was a concept promoted by John Prescott, the much underrated transport secretary...
Rail 925: Franchising on life support
After a year of paralysis in the rail industry, there finally appears to be some movement...
February 2021 newsletter
Oddly, in this short newsletter, I am going to promote someone else’s book. This is because...-
Treasury needs lesson in GCSE economics
Every year, rail fares go up and every year, the proposed increase in fuel duty is... 
Rail 924: The robots are not coming that fast
In the midst of all the chaos and uncertainty on the railways caused by the pandemic,...
Rail 923: In a logical world, peak fares would be abolished but….
One clear result of the Covid crisis is that we have to recognise that moving around...
New Statesman letter: Musk’s achilles heel
Elon Musk may, as Will Dunn, suggests ‘be a more interesting person to occupy capitalism’s top...-
The driverless car revolution that keeps on not coming
In early January, the Department for Transport (DfT) boasted that the UK “was on the cusp...
