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Christian Wolmar is a writer and broadcaster specialising in transport. He has spent nearly all of his working life as a journalist, and lately was at The Independent where he worked from 1989 to 1997, as transport correspondent and UK Political Correspondent.
After graduating from Warwick university in 1971, Christian started his career at Marketing magazine and then the Hampstead and Highgate Express where he was a sports reporter. He later moved to the New Statesman and the London Daily News. He is currently a freelance, working regularly for a variety of publications including the Evening Standard, the Daily Express, The Independent, Public Finance, Transport Times and Rail magazine, in which he writes a fortnightly column on the rail industry.
Christian has become one of the UK's leading commentators on transport matters and was named 'Logistics and Transport Journalist of the Year 2001-02'. He broadcasts frequently on TV and radio and is a regular pundit on the national news bulletins of terrestrial channels and Sky, as well as being on virtually every radio news programme from World at One, to Radio One's NewsBeat.
His books include Stagecoach (1999), an account of the firm which rose from nothing to the FTSE 100 in 20 years, The Great British Railway Disaster (1997), a humorous account of rail privatisation, and On The Wrong Line, how ideology and incompetence wrecked Britain’s railways a detailed analysis of the rail privatisation fiasco published in October 2005. He also wrote Forgotten Children, a groundbreaking study of children's homes scandals of the 1970s and 1980s.
His latest book, Fire and Steam, a new history of the railways, will be published in September 2007 by Atlantic Books.
He lives in Holloway, just behind the jail, and has three children.
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