Fast Track
$66.30
- Hardcover
400 pages
- Release Date
3 November 2026
Summary
A global history of high speed rail, from the railways’ “wisest, most detailed historian” (The Observer)
Sleek, comfortable, accessible, and sustainable, high-speed rail is the future. Japan’s Bullet Train has become a global icon. The French TGV established a template that soon followed across Europe. But China has become the world leader. Now with lines built or planned in over twenty countries, high speed rail has changed the world and, faced with the environmental cost of cars and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241775516 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241775515 |
| Author: | Christian Wolmar |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Michael Joseph Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 3 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 668g |
| Dimensions: | 37mm x 165mm x 242mm |
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Christian Wolmar
Christian Wolmar is an award-winning writer and broadcaster specializing in transport. He is acknowledged as one of the UK’s leading commentators on transport matters and has authored a series of books on railway history.
Wolmar is a frequent speaker at conferences, regularly appears on television and radio, and writes for a wide variety of publications, including The Times, The Guardian, The Oldie, and Public Finance.
His published works 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)
- 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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