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Fire and Steam Review by Andrew Adonis
A new age of the trainThe story of Britain’s railways is one of chaotic genius in the Victorian era followed by a century of more or less uninterrupted decline. Christian Wolmar charts this history in...
View ArticleWhat would have happened if BR had stayed in the public sector?
It was no surprise British Rail was the last of the big privatisations of the Tory governments of 1979 to 1997. Mrs Thatcher had counselled one of her most ideological acolytes, Nicholas Ridley,...
View ArticleDebate with Richard Wellings on rail nationalisation
Christian Wolmar Since 1994, when John Major began splitting up British Rail, the state-owned enterprise, into dozens of companies, Britain’s trains have been largely privately operated. But Network...
View ArticleProspect blog: It was Brexit wot won Richmond Park
My campaign did not get off to the best of starts. An eagle-eyed reporter—well, a Google-literate one—on the Telegraph spotted that I had written an article for The Oldie magazine on how toilet roll...
View ArticleThe dangerous myth of the driverless future
On 7th May 2016, Joshua Brown left a family trip to Disney World, Florida. He was heading back to his home in Ohio when his car struck the trailer section of a truck. He was found dead at the scene. At...
View ArticleTechnology is not the only transport future
Transport and technology have long had a symbiotic relationship. Consider, for example, how the development of new types of steel changed the railways. Or think how the motor car was the catalyst for...
View ArticleThe electric car conundrum
Electric cars are not a new invention. When I was growing up in west London in the 1960s, Harrods delivered its wares in a silent electric van while in contrast the cart belonging to Sam, the elderly...
View ArticleThe real reason behind opposition to Low Traffic Neighborhoods
By Pearl Ahrens and Christian Wolmar Last month, 322 people, from London and across the world, wrote in to the council of the Royal Borough … The real reason behind opposition to Low Traffic...
View ArticleThe real story of British Rail
A quarter of a century on, the political party that abolished British Rail seems to be busy recreating it. Back in the 1990s the Conservative … The real story of British Rail Read More »
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