British Rail - Christian Wolmar

British Rail

By: Christian Wolmar

Paperback | 5 September 2023 | Edition Number 1

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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 austerity, impoverished, and exploited by a hostile press, British Rail became a punchline, dismissed and swept away by Conservative government.

Now, Christian Wolmar provides a new perspective on public loss in a time of privatization. British Rail is ripe for a new history.

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