British Rail, 9781405946278
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State-owned, transformative, and unfairly dismissed: a new history of British Rail.

British Rail

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  • Paperback

    416 pages

  • Release Date

    4 September 2023

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Summary

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 carriages – we haven’t looked kindly on the last of our state-owned organizations to be privatized. But through its 50-year lifetime, British Rail transformed our transport system, and for a time provided one of the fastest regular rail services in the world.

Born into postwar auste…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781405946278
ISBN-10:140594627X
Author:Christian Wolmar
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:416
Release Date:4 September 2023
Weight:312g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 26mm
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Critics Review

Wolmar’s book is impeccably organized and makes a fast, enjoyable read * The Times Literary Supplement *Wolmar is the high priest of railway studies * Literary Review *Praise for Christian Wolmar * - *The greatest expert on British trains * The Guardian *Our most eminent transport journalist * The Spectator *

About The Author

Christian Wolmar

Acknowledged as one of the UK’s leading commentators on transport matters, Christian Wolmar is an award-winning writer and broadcaster specializing in transport, and the author of a series of books on railway history. He is a frequent speaker at conferences, regularly appears on TV and radio, and writes for a wide variety of publications including The Times, The Guardian, The Oldie, and Public Finance. His books include The Great British Railway Disaster (1997), Stagecoach (1999), Down the Tube (2002), The Subterranean Railway (2004), Broken Rails (2001, updated 2005), On the Wrong Line (2005), Fire and Steam (2009), Blood, Iron and Gold (2009), Engines of War (2010), The Great Railway Revolution (2013), and Railways and The Raj (2017). He has been described as “our most eminent transport journalist” by The Spectator and “the greatest expert on British trains” by The Guardian.

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