Christian Wolmar

‘Levelling up’ is the big idea following on from other memorable catch phrases like ‘hug a hoodie’ and the Big ...
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Zurich, with a population of 400,000, is one of the most pleasant places in the world to live with its ...
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I love London, my home town and one of the great cities of the world. It is a much kinder ...
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By Pearl Ahrens and Christian Wolmar Innovation has become something of a buzzword in recent years. From Uber to Deliveroo, ...
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The fascinating paradox about transport is the contradiction between accessibility and mobility. We all want to have access to the ...
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The government’s decarbonisation policy document is a constipated effort, blood out of stone from reluctant politicians after much delay. It ...
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It’s gone quiet on Crossrail recently, and they like it like that. No news is good news because the past ...
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Life is returning to around 50 per cent normal, so this newsletter is focussing on various events I am speaking ...
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For more than a century and a half, rail safety has improved thanks to learning from the causes of past ...
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I have finally resolved a conundrum that has been bugging me for several years. Despite writing numerous articles and two ...
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There seems to be a bit of a pattern to my summer writings in my attempt to keep away from ...
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I know I really ought to write about all the very important things going on in the railway. There’s no ...
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Patrick Magee (Has big tech backfired on robotaxis?, July 20) has missed the key point about relying on driver aids ...
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The story of the next couple of years in the rail industry will be how to tame the elephant in ...
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Over the years, as a journalist, I have occasionally come across stories that simply do not make sense. Brexit is ...
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There is no doubt that the Williams Shapps report could have been a lot worse. There is undoubtedly a strong ...
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My very smug letter to the Guardian in response to one accusing us oldies of sitting on our butts all ...
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If you want to understand the intentions behind the Government’s White Paper heralding the arrival of Great British Railways, look ...
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We all knew it was a mistake and we told them so. When the Tory government pushed through the privatisation ...
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When people suggest to me that it would be best if politics were left out of the railways, I always ...
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