Christian Wolmar newsletter March 24: New book, ride on Normandy beaches and a walk round London stations
Dear subscriber Such a long delay since the last newsletter, and therefore so much to say. First, I have sent ...
Rail 1003: The HS2 black hole and hyped to oblivion
I’ve seen many damning reports by various Parliamentary committees and agencies such as the National Audit Office over the years, ...
Rail 1002: The fares fiasco just got worse
There are times when I need three or four columns to adequately comment on what is happening in the rail ...
Write away – the story of my books
I have written more than a dozen books on the railways. And unusually among railway authors, I make my living ...
Rail 1001: What Labour should and should not do
The draft rail reform bill seems to have been stuck in the wastes of Whitehall. The Transport Secretary Mark Harper ...
Rail 1000: a look at a quarter of a century of Rail columns
Unlike some of the contributors to this momentous issue, I was not there at the beginning but I have written ...
The failure of the Channel Tunnel
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the opening of the Channel tunnel, Britain’s first fixed connection to the European ...
Rail 999: The failure of Eurotunnel and Mystic Wolmar tries again
It is 30 years since I had a chat with John Major in the bowels of a freight Shuttle hurtling ...
Rail 998: Great British Railways is a lost cause
It has been clear for a long time that the proposed legislation for the railways which would formally create ...
Driverless cars really are on a road to nowhere
Developing driverless cars has been AI’s greatest test. And it has failed miserably, despite the expenditure of tens of billions ...
Letter to The Times: BR offers the right model
A small correction to Emma Duncan’s apposite and timely piece on the railways (Comment, December 2). British Rail was not ...
Rail 997: Deutsche Bahn is still great despite failings
Needing to go to Munich to record a TV interview, I decided to go by train, Munich, at the southern ...