Christian Wolmar
British Rail
British Rail
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Christian Wolmar's book "The Rise and Fall of British Rail" is a comprehensive and entertaining account of the state-owned British Rail, from its creation after the Second World War to its privatization in the 1990s. The book explores the railway's innovative achievements, such as uniting disparate lines into a highly competent organization and providing one of the fastest regular rail services in the world, as well as its struggles against austerity, privatization, and a hostile press. Wolmar provides a fresh perspective on national loss in a time of privatization and is praised for his expertise in railway studies by critics.
Format: Hardback
Length: 416 pages
Publication date: 09 June 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
The authoritative and fascinating history of the rise and fall of the state-owned British Rail is impeccably organized and makes a fast, enjoyable read.
You think you know British Rail. But you don't know the whole story.
From its creation after the Second World War, through its fifty-year lifetime, British Rail was an innovative powerhouse that transformed our transport system. Uniting disparate lines into a highly competent organization - heralding The Age of the Train - and, for a time, providing one of the fastest regular rail services in the world.
Born into post-war austerity, traumatized, impoverished and exploited by a hostile press, the state-owned railway was dismissed as a dinosaur unable to evolve, and swept away by a government hellbent on selling it off.
Now, award-winning writer Christian Wolmar provides a new perspective on national loss in a time of privatization.
British Rail is ripe for a new history.
Praise for Christian Wolmar:
Wolmar is the high priest of railway studies.
Literary Review
The greatest expert on British trains.
Guardian
Our most eminent transport journalist.
Spectator
If the world's railways have a laureate, it is surely Christian Wolmar.
Boston Globe
Christian Wolmar is in love with the railways. He writes constantly and passionately about them. He is their wisest, most detailed historian and a constant prophet of their rebirth. . . . if you love the hum of the wheels and of history, then Christian Wolmar is your man.
Observer
Weight: 680g
Dimension: 164 x 242 x 40 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780241456200
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