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0 March 17, 2021
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,...
0 March 16, 2021
March 2021 Newsletter
Christian Wolmar’s March newsletter: Anonymity is killing fair debate Dear subscriber, The ferocity of the arguments...
0 February 10, 2021
February 2021 newsletter
Oddly, in this short newsletter, I am going to promote someone else’s book. This is because...
0 January 5, 2021
January 2021 Newsletter: it’s not all gloom but….
I have not worn a suit for a year. I hate wearing suits but I am...
0 December 9, 2020
December newsletter: deja vu all over again
This is the newsletter that goes out to subscribers every month. If you want to subscribe...
0 November 11, 2020
November newsletter – Covid crisis – and book offers
The second lockdown has just started and I see little way out of this crisis for...
1 October 2, 2020
October newsletter: new books and the bloody viruses
Sorry I have missed out a couple of months, due to holidays and overwork. But I...
0 July 14, 2020
July Newsletter: The self-destruction of the rail industry
There has been pretty much only one theme to my recent writings – in The Times,...
1 May 16, 2020
May newsletter – one thing is certain: driverless cars are not the answer
Apologies for slight lateness, but I have just delivered the manuscript of my latest book, Cathedrals...
1 April 1, 2020
My April newsletter: we need imagination to get out of this crisis; and a book offer for lockdown
Who would have expected that we would live in a time when it was illegal to...
8 February 28, 2020
My March newsletter: the mystery of the driverless car Ponzi scheme – and is it ‘termini’?
A quick newsletter as I am deeply buried in my latest book, Cathedrals of Steam, which...
7 January 10, 2020
The new battle of Jericho
(pic by permission, Andy Ffrench, Oxford Mail) Here’s a prediction for my second blog of the...
3 January 3, 2020
January 2020 newsletter
I am starting the year as I mean to go on, with a new newsletter for...
0 January 1, 2020
Book review: The luxury trains
Martyn Pring, Luxury Railway Travel, a social and business history, Pen & Sword, £35 There may...
3 December 30, 2019
Delights of transport scored nul points
The Labour manifesto was incredible. In the true sense of the word, meaning unbelievable. It was...