Christian Wolmar is a writer and broadcaster. He writes regularly for the Independent and Evening Standard, and appears frequently on TV and radio. His previous books include the widely acclaimed The Subterranean Railway, a history of the London underground and On the Wrong Line, an account of rail privatization.

• Introduction: Why Railways? 1: The First Railway 2: Getting the Railway Habit 3: Joining Up Britain 4: Changing Britain 5: Railways Everywhere 6: The Big Companies: Great But Not Necessarily Good 7: The Agatha Christie Railway 8: Danger and Exploitation on the Tracks 9: Speeding to Danger 10: The Only Way to Get There 11: Fighting Together - Reluctantly 12: Compromise - The Big Four 13: And Then There Was One 14: An Undeserved Reputation 15: All Change

A marvellously informative, entertaining and rightly partisan book... that has given me more pleasure than any I can remember in quite a while.

Christian Wolmar is a writer and broadcaster. He writes regularly for the Independent and Evening Standard, and appears frequently on TV and radio. His previous books include the widely acclaimed The Subterranean Railway, a history of the London underground and On the Wrong Line, an account of rail privatization.

• Introduction: Why Railways? 1: The First Railway 2: Getting the Railway Habit 3: Joining Up Britain 4: Changing Britain 5: Railways Everywhere 6: The Big Companies: Great But Not Necessarily Good 7: The Agatha Christie Railway 8: Danger and Exploitation on the Tracks 9: Speeding to Danger 10: The Only Way to Get There 11: Fighting Together - Reluctantly 12: Compromise - The Big Four 13: And Then There Was One 14: An Undeserved Reputation 15: All Change

A marvellously informative, entertaining and rightly partisan book... that has given me more pleasure than any I can remember in quite a while.

Christian Wolmar is a writer and broadcaster. He writes regularly for the Independent and Evening Standard, and appears frequently on TV and radio. His previous books include the widely acclaimed The Subterranean Railway, a history of the London underground and On the Wrong Line, an account of rail privatization.

• Introduction: Why Railways? 1: The First Railway 2: Getting the Railway Habit 3: Joining Up Britain 4: Changing Britain 5: Railways Everywhere 6: The Big Companies: Great But Not Necessarily Good 7: The Agatha Christie Railway 8: Danger and Exploitation on the Tracks 9: Speeding to Danger 10: The Only Way to Get There 11: Fighting Together - Reluctantly 12: Compromise - The Big Four 13: And Then There Was One 14: An Undeserved Reputation 15: All Change

A marvellously informative, entertaining and rightly partisan book... that has given me more pleasure than any I can remember in quite a while.