Christian Says

The biggest risk of the long term effect of the pandemic is that we see a permanent change from the ...
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This is my newletter sent out free to subscribers - to sign up, go to my website christianwolmar.co.uk and scroll ...
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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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I have finally resolved a conundrum that has been bugging me for several years. Despite writing numerous articles and two ...
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Let’s assume that ‘back to normal’ is, say, an 80 per cent railway. In other words, that the timetable will ...
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Christian Wolmar's March newsletter: Anonymity is killing fair debate  Dear subscriber, The ferocity of the arguments over low traffic neighbourhoods ...
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Oddly, in this short newsletter, I am going to promote someone else’s book. This is because I think Peter Walker’s ...
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I have not worn a suit for a year. I hate wearing suits but I am so looking forward now ...
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This is the newsletter that goes out to subscribers every month. If you want to subscribe click here There’s rather ...
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The second lockdown has just started and I see little way out of this crisis for the transport industry. As ...
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Sorry I have missed out a couple of months, due to holidays and overwork. But I will try to produce ...
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There has been pretty much only one theme to my recent writings – in The Times, the New Statesman  and ...
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Apologies for slight lateness, but I have just delivered the manuscript of my latest book, Cathedrals of Steam, the story ...
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Who would have expected that we would live in a time when it was illegal to play cricket in the ...
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A quick newsletter as I am deeply buried in my latest book, Cathedrals of Steam, which is the story of ...
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(pic by permission, Andy Ffrench, Oxford Mail) Here’s a prediction for my second blog of the decade: the twenties are ...
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I am starting the year as I mean to go on, with a new newsletter for January with the hope ...
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Martyn Pring, Luxury Railway Travel, a social and business history, Pen & Sword, £35 There may never have been a ...
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The Labour manifesto was incredible. In the true sense of the word, meaning unbelievable. It was packed with goodies such ...
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I rarely find the time to do blogs but watching Boris Johnson’s performances on the media yesterday cannot go by ...
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