Christian Wolmar

Christian Wolmar is the author of British Rail, a new history published by Penguin, and writes a column for Rail magazine.

A new track record

Simon Bradley dates the demise of the on-board meal service to 1962, when Pullman services no longer offered croutons with the soup course. That may be a touch fanciful— there were other reasons for the decline, such as faster trains, cost cutting and the growth of fast food. Nevertheless, it is the type of anecdote