Christian Wolmar

Christian Wolmar is a writer and broadcaster specialising in transport. He has spent nearly all of his working life as a journalist, and was at The Independent from 1989 to 1997, mostly as transport correspondent. Although he mainly concentrates on transport matters, he covers other social policy issues and has written on a wide range of subjects ranging from cricket to the Private Finance Initiative.

Christian has become one of the UK’s leading commentators on transport matters and has won several awards for his work. He broadcasts frequently on radio and TV and is a regular pundit on the national news bulletins of terrestrial channels and Sky, as well as having appeared on virtually every radio news programme from World at One and the World Tonight to Radio One’s NewsBeat and LBC. He has made several radio documentaries, including a recent Radio 4 programme on the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham, 20 years after the riot.

The website was built since 2002 and had a big revamp in mid 2009 to increase the interactive/web 2.0 elements which is extremely suitable for Christian’s publishing stytle. Site archives his most recent work, past published books, articles. Christian also provides a list of his ongoing public speaches for those who are instested in bristish transport and british railways news, inside stories. Visitors are news readers, magazine/newspaper/journal/book publishers, rail fans, public speaking organizer, students who study British rails history, university lecturer, and more.

In addition, Christian manages a blog “Christian Says” and a monthly newsletter. Both of them has a large amount of subscribers. Till February 2009, the number of newsletter subcribers had gone up to 1,300.

People say about the website

Matt Lloyd

“Thanks for an informative website and emails. Yours is one of the few opinioins that I look out for on matters of public transport.”