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Amid all the hoo-ha of HS2, integrated rail plans and Great British Railways, there’s a rather more serious situation brewing ...

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Life is returning to around 50 per cent normal, so this newsletter is focussing on various events I am speaking ...

I have finally resolved a conundrum that has been bugging me for several years. Despite writing numerous articles and two ...

Let’s assume that ‘back to normal’ is, say, an 80 per cent railway. In other words, that the timetable will ...

Christian Wolmar's March newsletter: Anonymity is killing fair debate  Dear subscriber, The ferocity of the arguments over low traffic neighbourhoods ...

Oddly, in this short newsletter, I am going to promote someone else’s book. This is because I think Peter Walker’s ...

I have not worn a suit for a year. I hate wearing suits but I am so looking forward now ...

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The second lockdown has just started and I see little way out of this crisis for the transport industry. As ...

Sorry I have missed out a couple of months, due to holidays and overwork. But I will try to produce ...

There has been pretty much only one theme to my recent writings – in The Times, the New Statesman  and ...

Apologies for slight lateness, but I have just delivered the manuscript of my latest book, Cathedrals of Steam, the story ...

Who would have expected that we would live in a time when it was illegal to play cricket in the ...

A quick newsletter as I am deeply buried in my latest book, Cathedrals of Steam, which is the story of ...

(pic by permission, Andy Ffrench, Oxford Mail) Here’s a prediction for my second blog of the decade: the twenties are ...

I am starting the year as I mean to go on, with a new newsletter for January with the hope ...

Martyn Pring, Luxury Railway Travel, a social and business history, Pen & Sword, £35 There may never have been a ...

The Labour manifesto was incredible. In the true sense of the word, meaning unbelievable. It was packed with goodies such ...

I rarely find the time to do blogs but watching Boris Johnson’s performances on the media yesterday cannot go by ...