Christian and co-presenter Mark Walker bring listeners right up to date with progress of the new UK Labour Government’s rapid legislation to allow franchised passenger train operations to return to state control [01:45]. Mark discusses with Christian his recent Guardian article calling for the abandonment of all England’s major road building schemes [23:22]. Finally, Christian previews the reissue of his book ‘Fire and Steam’ to mark the bicentenary of the world’s first railway [33:14].
Calling All Stations with Christian Wolmar, Episode 25, Season 2
