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Christian Wolmar
A new and updated edition of the classic history of the British railway, published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of train travel in 2025.
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The epic story of the railwaymen who ensured Allied victory in World War Two, published to coincide with the eightieth anniversary of D-Day, by Britain's best-loved railway writer.
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The epic story of the engineers and rail workers who ensured Allied victory in World War Two, published to coincide with the eightieth anniversary of D-Day, by an award-winning expert…
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Journey through the history of the railways
A fascinating journey through the history of railways, packed with first-hand accounts of innovation, triumph, and tragedy.
From the earliest steam engine to…
Driverless cars are being hyped strongly by industry and government as an inevitable feature of our (near) future transport options. This book argues that they will not be - as…
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Christian Wolmar argues that autonomous cars are the wrong solution to the wrong problem. Even if the many technical difficulties that stand in the way of achieving a driverless future…
If you have ever wondered why the roads are congested, the trains are full and the buses are no longer running, this book provides the answers. The UK has never…
A concise, authoritative and fast-paced telling of how the railways changed the world.
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To the Edge of the World is an adventure in travel–full of extraordinary personalities, more than a century of explosive political, economic, and cultural events, and almost inconceivable feats of…
The story of an engineering marvel of the modern age, from an author and broadcaster specialised in transport matters.
The epic tale of America’s railroads-the largest rail network in the world-and how they built a modern nation
From Panama to Punjab, from Tasmania to Turin, Wolmar shows how cultures were enriched, and destroyed, by one of the greatest global transport revolutions of our time, and celebrates the…
The rise and fall of the state-owned British Rail, from the greatest expert on British trains Christian Wolmar
You think you know British Rail.
Stale sandwiches, inefficiency, and violent yellow…
The epic story of the British construction of the railways in India, as told by Britain’s bestselling transport historian.
Reissued in a new paperback package to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the London Underground. ‘I can think of few better ways to while away those elastic periods awaiting…
The rise and fall of the state-owned British Rail, from "the greatest expert on British trains" Christian Wolmar
One of the most important developments in European history, the railways helped create the social and economic fabric of the continent. In the ‘Golden Age’ of the railways, from the…
Reissued in a new paperback package to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the London Underground.
The epic story of London’s major railway stations, by Britain’s bestselling transport historian.
Now in paperback, Fire and Steam tells the dramatic story of the people and events that shaped the world’s first railway network, one of the most impressive engineering achievements in…
The dramatic 100-year history of how trains became weapons, and transformed forever the nature of war
Improving Urban Access: New Approaches to Funding Transport Investment provide innovative ideas on how we might reorganize transport finance to ensure that it is suited to serving the social, environmental…
Sets out a roadmap to show how small changes can mean positive developments in urban transport for truly accessible cities.
Tamsin Dillon,Will Self,Mark Wallinger,Marina Warner
How to capture that breadth in one work of art? How to celebrate a single system while also reflecting the millions of lives that it transports every day? This book…
