Christian Wolmar

Christian Wolmar is Britain’s railway man – the country’s leading writer, talker and thinker on trains. If it runs on rails, he’s written about it, talked about it, broadcast about it, lived it. Author of a string of much-admired books – The Subterranean Railway, Fire & Steam, Blood, Iron and Gold, British Rail: The Making and Breaking of Our Trains, and more – Christian has done for Britain’s railways what Peter Ackroyd did for London: made them breathe, sing and tell their story.

A former Independent transport correspondent and long-time columnist for RAIL magazine, he’s as sharp on the people and politics behind the platforms as he is on the locomotives themselves. His gift? Making the history, the grandeur, the drama and the human stories of the railway world leap off the page – and, lucky us, off the pavement too.

On this unmissable, one-off London Walk, Christian and Sam take you through the stations that made the city: palaces of steam and iron, cathedrals of travel. Expect anecdotes, revelations, a few surprises – and the infectious enthusiasm of the man who knows the rails better than anyone alive.

All of Christian Wolmar's Walks

Secret History of London's Railway Stations

Thursday, 03 December 2026 @ 10 am