Auteur: Wolmar Christian Wolmar

The story of an engineering marvel of the twenty-first century, from Britain’s bestselling railway writer.Crossrail, first conceived just after the Second World War in the era of Attlee and …

From Britain’s most popular railway historian, a concise, authoritative and fast-paced telling of how the railways changed the world. The arrival of the railways in the first half of the nineteenth …

Across American praries, through Siberian tundra, over Argentinian pampas and deep into the heart of Africa, the modern world began with the arrival of the railway. The shock was sudden and …