Christian Wolmar @christianwolmar
Author 20 books most transport, speaker, Rail mag, driverless car sceptic, QPR fan, Parkrunner. @wolmarforlondon wife @deborahmaby Podcast: Calling All Stations christianwolmar.co.uk London Joined April 2009-
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Going to be on BBC radio five live talking rail at 23 30
Anyone near London ? Go see Wolmar next week on the 9th
Anyone near London ? Go see Wolmar next week on the 9th
Well more important @Captain_Deltic QPR crawl above @SRichardBowker and @pipdunn (now eliminated) in the rail Championship stakes!
Thank you, @christianwolmar. Your fine book on the subject is quoted..
Thank you, @christianwolmar. Your fine book on the subject is quoted..
A brilliant defence of BR by @ClarkeMicah from a different political tradition dailymail.co.uk/debate/article…
The roll out of 20mph speed limits is something @AndrewGant3 should rightly be proud of. 20mph speed allow much more effective road calming interventions. @tvprp should now work to provide cheap average speed camera grids e.g. @AutoSpeedWatch oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24280473.…
1/2 .@DomTheTrainNerd Yes, it was. Christian Wolmar's excellent book on BR , reviewed by me here explained how: mailplus.co.uk/edition/books/…
1/2 .@DomTheTrainNerd Yes, it was. Christian Wolmar's excellent book on BR , reviewed by me here explained how: mailplus.co.uk/edition/books/…
Endorsement for the Liberation Line
What weekend. QPR won 4 0 against 2nd placed team, I did 29 31 in new Parkrun and enjoyed giving talk to Railfuture....and now a fab Chiltern train. And my new book is out on Thursday #smugbastard
My 244th Parkrun at Cannon Hill with 900 others at 29 31...not bad but horrid hill at end
@markjenkinsonmp I would recommend @christianwolmar history “British Rail” to you
Get the inside gen on Labour plans for rail from our podcast podbean.com/ew/pb-ferqx-15…
Musk lies exposed theguardian.com/technology/202…
Want to know about Labour’s plans for rail? Listen to the latest @AllStationsPod podbean.com/eas/pb-ferqx-1…
@christianwolmar @AllStationsPod Is it as good as Superhoops securing safety … ⚽️
2/19, @christianwolmar & @MarkWalker59 discuss @UKLabour's & @LouHaigh's #rail reform plans and scrutiny by @TransportCttee of @transportgovuk's draft Rail Reform Bill plus innovations by rail operators in sustainability - and privacy! podbean.com/eas/pb-ferqx-1…
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@DPJHodges Day 24 of you posting about a story concerning a couple thousand pounds whilst you barely covered Zahawi, Mone or Sunak’s wife who collectively owe the taxpayer millions upon millions. Your bias is obvious to all.
@christianwolmar - one for your excellent column perhaps?!
.@LNER claims to have "simplified" ticketing by axing super off peak returns but the opposite is true. Previously, a walk on “super off peak” return would have cost far less and allowed a journey break on return. Now, I have to buy FIVE tickets instead of one at huge £££
if we're going to have the lame prime ministerial videos, we at least deserve a general election
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First train to start off the week is the first train to Victoria
16/if I seem a bit sceptical. Thus far I don’t think this article proves its case—the evidence seems circumstantial. Let’s see if the book will. In the meantime you could read my biography of Blunt. Ends
Another disgusting low from this government. Shameful abuse of the civil service. theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…
I don't care whether this is popular or not. It's wrong - and especially despicable just because it's an election week. I can feel myself being radicalised on this in real time. theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…
Also, every book advance I’ve ever got was bigger and I wrote niche stuff
@christianwolmar Glenuig, Moidart, West Coast Scotland - with the Small Isles off the coast. You have to request the train to stop at Lochailort Station to get off, just after the spectacular "Harry Potter" Glenfinnan Viaduct.. 🙂 Stunningly beautiful train/ bike ride.
Will take a look.@christianwolmar Was there any truth in Frankenheimer's marvellous film 'The Train' (Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield and Jeanne Moreau) set around that time?
@ClarkeMicah Hope you find space to mention my new book The Liberation Line in relation to Dday...those railmen need remembering
3/3 .@hatch526. If you read the history of BR by .@christianwolmar, you will learn just how well-managed it had become, despite endless hostile interference, before it was split and wrecked by John Major. But will you?
@christianwolmar @ClarkeMicah If people, after seeing government ineptitude their whole lives, honestly believe the railways belong back under ownership of said inept management…then I have a bridge for sale.
@concaveasitwere @LewisSJ @Captain_Deltic @christianwolmar @Tom_Drives @jlnash84 @railnigel @seatsixtyone Branson had the good sense to appoint Chris Green, who had overseen some of BR's biggest successes. I tend to agree with Jon Worth that there are good and bad examples of both private operators and nationalised rail and that public or private is not necessarily the deal breaker.
As with original publication in @NewStatesman, I’m overwhelmed by the response: both the levels of kindness shown to me, & the horror that so many other women have gone through. The stories I’ve read have bordered on barbaric - from friends & strangers alike. It has to stop. X
My nightmare giving birth — and Britain’s maternity scandal. Thank you to @thetimes for publishing my piece on birth trauma. It’s a silent scandal affecting hundreds of thousands of mothers each year. Women, their babies, and partners deserve better thetimes.co.uk/article/f6ff7f…
On International Workers Memorial Day - recalling the Marcinelle mining disaster of 1956; the deadliest day in the history of Belgian coal mining. Fire swept through the pit, claiming 262 lives, of whom 136 were Italian guest workers. One English miner was also among the dead.
I really like Haidt and I liked his latest book, but I think it’s actually made it harder to do anything about phones because it’s framed the debate as “if you can’t produce 35 gold standard RCTs showing phones cause depression then everything is fine”. Obviously not the case!
You do not need to be convinced by the Haidt stuff on phones and social media to think very small children using social media undersupervised is a bad thing.
@railnigel @gceccles @SRichardBowker @LewisSJ @Captain_Deltic @christianwolmar @Tom_Drives @concaveasitwere @jlnash84 @seatsixtyone Pre privatisation I was at Board and saw closely the implementation of OFQ which had many merits. At privatisation I was at North London Railways. We transitioned to Silverlink, expanded our services using every path in our track access agreement and set about growing & improving
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At the end of this lovely piece on the new Belmond route through Malaysia, I’ve listed five of my favourite long-distance trains that won’t break the bank. ft.com/content/5780cc…
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