On the Wrong Line: How Ideology and Incompetence Wrecked Britain's Railways
by Christian Wolmar
Price: $9.00 USD. 149390 words.
Published by Kemsing Publishing on August 23, 2012. Nonfiction.
Britain's rail privatisation was one of the greatest political failures of recent history.
This acclaimed book serves as a valuable reminder of the risks of privatising a single, state-owned service and breaking it up into competing entities, linked by contracts instead of a shared service ethos... mistakes the Coalition Government now seems determined to repeat with the National Health Service
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Christian Wolmar
Biography
Christian Wolmar is an award winning writer and broadcaster specialising in transport and is the author of a series of books on railway history. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and railway events, and regularly appears on TV and radio. In 2011 was the captain of the Warwick team of graduates in Christmas University Challenge, which reached the final of the competition.
He has spent nearly all of his working life as a journalist, and his interest in transport began at The Independent when he was appointed transport correspondent in 1992. Although he mainly concentrates on transport matters, he ahs covered many other social policy issues and has written on a wide range of subjects ranging from cricket to the Private Finance Initiative.
He has spent nearly all of his working life as a journalist, and his interest in transport began at The Independent when he was appointed transport correspondent in 1992. Although he mainly concentrates on transport matters, he ahs covered many other social policy issues and has written on a wide range of subjects ranging from cricket to the Private Finance Initiative.