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Christian Wolmar

Christian Wolmar

The Guardian

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Labour’s ‘renationalisation’ is no British Rail revival

4 December 2024, 10:55 By Christian Wolmar The ‘renationalisation’ of the railways announced by Labour today is nothing of the sort. It is a...

04.12.2024 10

LBC

Christian Wolmar

The Japanese are in for a big TfL culture shock

Tokyo Nothing can prepare the good people from Tokyo Metro – who are coming to London to run the Elizabeth Line – from the culture shock they...

03.12.2024 10

The Spectator

Christian Wolmar

Can HS2 be fixed?

Choose your expression: ‘stuck between a rock and a hard place’; ‘I wouldn’t start from here if I were you’; or simply ‘this is the...

10.10.2024 7

The Spectator

Christian Wolmar

I have the ideal road plan for Britain. Take the 16 major highway schemes worth £15bn and bin them

We all hate roads. They pollute our lungs, destroy our hearing, degrade the environment and are a blight on the countryside. Driving on them can be a...

02.09.2024 50

The Guardian

Christian Wolmar

Don’t blame health and safety for killing the Harry Potter steam train

When the operators of the most popular steam train service in Britain decided to challenge the safety authorities, they were confident that sentiment...

24.03.2024 10

The Spectator

Christian Wolmar

The Channel tunnel should have made the UK truly European, but didn’t. We must get back on track

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the opening of the Channel tunnel, Britain’s first fixed connection to the European mainland since the...

01.01.2024 60

The Guardian

Christian Wolmar

Driverless cars were the future but now the truth is out: they’re on the road to nowhere

Developing driverless cars has been AI’s greatest test. Today we can say it has failed miserably, despite the expenditure of tens of billions of...

06.12.2023 10

The Guardian

Christian Wolmar

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