Quarter of a century of articles from Christian Wolmar

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Quarter of a century of articles from Christian Wolmar

« on: January 31, 2024, 22:14:58 »

https://www.christianwolmar.co.uk/2024/01/rail-1000-a-look-at-a-quarter-of-a-century-of-rail-columns/

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Rail 1000: a look at a quarter of a century of Rail columns

My first column, at the end of September 1995, was in issue 262, oddly entitled ‘The good, the bad and the ugly’ and I was apparently a modest brown haired fellow at the time who wrote ‘I am a humble layman, an observer of the railways and Government policy towards them’. Now I am a grey haired git with a hint of arrogance born of surviving for this long in Rail ...


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Re: Quarter of a century of articles from Christian Wolmar

« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2024, 07:08:40 »

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he asked me why lightly loaded trains could not stop at level crossings so that cars could have priority

Was this a pre-cursor to the Hierarchy of users in the latest update of the Highway Code (;


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Re: Quarter of a century of articles from Christian Wolmar

« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2024, 12:31:11 »

Quote from: CyclingSid on February 01, 2024, 07:08:40

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he asked me why lightly loaded trains could not stop at level crossings so that cars could have priority

Was this a pre-cursor to the Hierarchy of users in the latest update of the Highway Code (;

They do (or rather did, in this case) sometimes


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Re: Quarter of a century of articles from Christian Wolmar

« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2024, 16:25:00 »

I knew that crossing very well


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