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	Review: The Subterranean Railway by Christian Wolmar \| Review \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Wolmar is Britain's foremost expert on public transport issues, and he has ventured underground before, in his excellent Down the Tube, a devastating attack on what went wrong with the tube and why.
		Wolmar argues that it has been at the cutting edge of industrial design, and that the posters, the roundel logo, Harry Beck's map, Charles Holden's futuristic stations for the Piccadilly line extension, have all been key to the development of London's identity.
		Wolmar also claims that London Transport was godfather to multicultural Britain, as it sought to overcome the postwar labour shortage by recruiting from the Caribbean (between 1956 and 1965, 4,000 workers were recruited from Barbados alone).
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,1384778,00.html (715 words)

	Valmiera - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Valmiera (German: Wolmar) is the largest city of Vidzeme region, Latvia with a total area of 18.1 km².
		The actual founding of the town probably occurred at least 40 years earlier when the master of the Livonian Order Wilken von Endorp constructed a castle (Wolmar) and Catholic church on the banks of the river Gauja.
		Valmiera was a member of the Hanseatic League from the 14th-16th centuries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wolmar (361 words)

	Red Pepper April 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Wolmar pricks the balloons of those who cherish a nostalgic view of a golden age of rail, concluding that right from the start Britain's railways were hobbled by a free market obsession with competition.
		However, Wolmar argues that on the eve of privatisation, BR was managing much better than is acknowledged, despite the failure of successive governments to engage in the long-term planning necessary to create a world-class railway.
		Wolmar concludes that the government cannot simply turn Railtrack into a non-profit company and leave the rest of the existing system as it is. He sees the only practical way forward as the creation of reintegrated regional companies, which would effectively be public-private partnerships.
	www.redpepper.org.uk /cularch/x-bkreview-2.html (617 words)

	Socialist Review (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Wolmar and co, caught between dislike of the PPP and distrust of the unions, think the issue must be one of 'bad management', and so look to the good manager--Kiley--as a hero.
		Wolmar describes Robson as 'one of the number twos at the Treasury', which sounds like a polite way of saying he's a shit, but is actually a description of his position.
		Wolmar is continually bemused that anyone committed to better transport in London could back the deal, which will pour millions into the hands of private firms while leaving the tube in a Railtrack-style mess.
	www.socialistreview.org.uk /article.php?articlenumber=8327 (576 words)

	BBC Online - On The Record - Interviews (Site not responding. Last check: )
		WOLMAR Absolutely, the key point about privatisation was not only that it sold off the railways to the private sector, but in a way the most damaging thing it did was to fragment the railway and to break it up and railways need a unified system.
		WOLMAR: George, I think the whole way the industry was privatised may well have been responsible for nearly all, with the exception of Great Heck, all the accidents after privatisation - Southall and Paddington...
		WOLMAR: We did have accidents but if you look at these accidents carefully as I have done, you see that in each case there's failure of communication between the different parts of the rail industry and the problem is it's not like the oil industry.
	www.bbc.co.uk /otr/intext/20020512_whole.html (8386 words)

	Theodore Beza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		From Paris, Theodore was sent to Orleans in December 1528 to enjoy the instruction of the famous German teacher Melchior Wolmar.
		He was received into Wolmar's house, and the day on which this took place was afterward celebrated as a second birthday.
		He was heartily received by John Calvin, who had met him already in Wolmar's house, and was at once publicly and solemnly married in the church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Theodore_Beza (3029 words)

	Politics \| Tube decay
		For Wolmar not only knows his PPP from his PFI from his PSBR from his DETR from his DTR from his DTLR from his JLE from his CTRL (all helpfully annotated in the book's glossary) but also writes a skilful political thriller, turning mundane contractual rows and departmental infighting into a gripping page-turner.
		Among the book's scoops is the revelation that Tony Blair, fearing that the PPP could finally blow up in Labour's face in the 2001 election, secretly summoned Mr Kiley to Chequers that Easter for the first in a series of four meetings that not even his boss, the mayor, was allowed to know about.
		Wolmar ultimately casts Mr Blair as a PPP agnostic, while Mr Brown, the arch-villain of the book, is the PPP evangelist.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4592619-107972,00.html (766 words)

	History of the Christian Church, Volume VIII: Modern Christianity. The Swiss Reformation. \| Christian Classics Ethereal ...
		The conversation turned upon the future of Theodore, whereupon the friend commended Melchior Wolmar, the famous Greek scholar at Orleans, who was also the teacher of Calvin, as the best person to educate the lad.
		With Wolmar he lived till 1535, first at Orleans and then at Bourges, and doubtless learned much from him.
		Indeed, it was his known adherence to these views which compelled his flight to Germany in the year 1535.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/hcc8.iv.xix.i.html (1311 words)

	Beza
		Wolmar will be remembered in history as a man of Protestant convictions who had the privilege of teaching both Beza and Calvin.
		Although Wolmar made every effort to convert Beza to Protestantism, the young boy resisted strenuously and refused to forsake the Roman Catholicism of his family.
		In 1534 Wolmar fled to his native Germany during the incident of the placards.
	www.rsglh.org /beza.htm (2361 words)

	LRB \| James Meek : Crocodile's Breath (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Wolmar quotes the contemporary pitch for houses ‘where City men could live a life of luxury in the grounds of an historic old English park and yet be just 40 minutes away from Baker Street by fast electric expresses’.
		Wolmar quotes a new resident who arrived that December to find the area around the station a sea of mud awaiting construction.
		As Wolmar points out, if the formula is badly written, there might be no new toilets for drivers for 30 years, or there might be an explosion of platform toilets.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v27/n09/meek01_.html (6812 words)

	The Future Cities Project: articles: Review of Down the Tubes (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Wolmar effortlessly exposes the bureaucratic farce that is PPP, but he also appears to be no great fan of the alternatives.
		The one thing for which Wolmar should be rightly praised is his trenchant criticism of how London Transport executives and London mayor, Ken Livingstone 'play the Health and Safety card'.
		Unfortunately, without challenging the extant orthodoxy that people should be dissuaded from travelling, it is no wonder that Wolmar has no answers for the current crisis management of the system.
	www.futurecities.org.uk /articles/wolmar.htm (461 words)

	Theodore Beza Biography
		Nicholas, who was unmarried, on a visit to Vezelay was so pleased with Theodore that, with the permission of the parents, he took him to Paris to educate him there.
		From Paris Theodore was sent to Orleans (Dec., 1528) to enjoy the instruction of the famous German teacher Melchior Wolmar.
		Young Beza soon followed his teacher to Bourges, whither the latter was called by the duchess Margaret of Angoulême, sister of Francis I. Bourges was one of the places in France in which the heart of the Reformation beat the strongest.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Beza_Theodore.html (2881 words)

	Nick Davies, Christian Wolmar, Richard Webster and police trawling operations
		Wolmar implies that almost all convicted care workers pleaded guilty.
		Wolmar writes that “the modus operandi of abusers tends to be the same”, so “fabricated evidence would be quickly exposed”.
		Most seriously of all both Wolmar and Davies seem unable to entertain even the possibility that a care worker might be wrongly convicted.
	www.richardwebster.net /trawlletters.htm (1995 words)

	Nuestra Tierra · Fine Hammered Copper & Silver Work from Mexico for Sale · Ignacio and Abdon Punzo, ...
		Wolmar is the son of famed Taxco jewelry designer Antonio Castillo, founder of Los Castillo workshop that contributed greatly to the development of Taxco jewelry in the 40's and 50's.
		Wolmar specializes in "hollowware," in the form of pitchers, trays and vases.
		Wolmar's work has been exhibited extensively in the U.S. and he is often been called on to lecture on the topic of modern Taxco silverwork.
	www.nutierra.com /products/coppersilver.html (325 words)

	Christian Wolmar :: Other Books
		Containing chapters written by regulators, operators, journalists and academics, including Christian Wolmar, it reveals for the first time the factors influencing the formulation of railway privatisation policy and examines the issues that arose during its implementation.
		Christian Wolmar is one of the contributors in this pocket-size book, which contains 21 essays outlining the priorities for a future Conservative Government's transport policy.
		Christian Wolmar also uses his knowledge of the media industry to discuss the role of tycoons like Rupert Murdoch and Robert Maxwell, and the function of libel laws.
	www.christianwolmar.co.uk /books/other.shtml (707 words)

	The Future Cities Project: articles: Review of Down the Tubes (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For leading transport commentator Christian Wolmar, the real villains of this piece is the army of consultants, employed to manage the dreaded PPP contracts (which run to 135 volumes and 2800 pages), and the Treasury who have allegedly stymied negotiation every step of the way.
		Even though Wolmar considers the recent history of underground rail investment as 'more cock-up than conspiracy', he believes that fiscal intervention is the key problem.
		What's changed is that in the pre-War and immediate post-War period there was at least the sense that getting from A to B as fast as possible was a positive aspiration.
	www.transportresearch.org.uk /articles/downthetubes.htm (754 words)

	On the Wrong Line: How Ideology and Incompetence Wrecked Britain's Railways by Christian Wolmar : Politicos Bookshop, ...
		Christian Wolmar's acclaimed Broken Rails charted the disastrous privatisation of the British railway system in the mid-1990s.
		Wolmar suggests that the railways may soon be under threat from a massive round of cuts and closures - or that debts, already at USD10bn, will mount up with catastrophic effect.
		But he argues that there is a third option: a return to a rational railway in which the disparate pieces are reassembled into a functioning network.
	www.politicos.co.uk /books/24369.htm?ginPtrCode=10410&identifier=8b160393f5e865d9d1738859f9812ebc (228 words)

	Christian Wolmar :: Biography
		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.
		"Wolmar's passion for the railways, married to a critical eye, produces informed comment and analysis that is frequently uncomfortable for those industry players subjected to such scrutiny"
	www.christianwolmar.co.uk /biography (704 words)

	Viesnīca "Wolmar"
		“Wolmar” is the historical name of the town from 13.century till 1918.There is used motiv of city in the interior.
		In year 2004 the new hotel annex was opened.
		The hotel “Wolmar” is the member of Latvian association of hotels and restaurants.
	www.wolmar.lv /main.php?lang_id=2&menu=1 (116 words)

	Christian Wolmar :: Home
		Christian Wolmar was named Transport Journalist of the Year 2007 in the National Transport Awards on 17th July 2007.
		It was for the TV and radio work Christian did in the immediate aftermath of the Cumbria train accident in February when he helped to allay fears about the risks of rail travel.
		Christian Wolmar has spent nearly all of his working life as a journalist and has become one of the UK's leading commentators on transport matters, broadcasting frequently on both radio and TV.
	www.christianwolmar.co.uk (416 words)

	Comment is free: Christian Wolmar Profile
		Christian Wolmar is 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.
		Christian Wolmar takes a strong interest in European affairs, coming from a background of studying at a French school and having a Swedish mother and a Russian father.
	commentisfree.guardian.co.uk /christian_wolmar/profile.html (351 words)

	The Westminster Bookshop > On the Wrong Line by Christian Wolmar
		Christian Wolmar's acclaimed Broken Rails charted the disastrous privatisation of the British railway system in the mid-1990s.
		Wolmar suggests that the railways may soon be under threat from a massive round of cuts and closures - or that debts will mount up with catastrophic effect.
		But he argues that there is a third option: a return to a rational railway in which the disparate pieces are reassembled into a functioning network.
	www.westminsterbookshop.co.uk /shop/product.php/6114/0 (201 words)

	www.publicfinance.co.uk - Features - T5 gets off to a flying start, by Christian Wolmar
		Christian Wolmar believes there are vital lessons for the public sector to learn from BAA’s decision to shoulder the risks itself
		The installation of the roof on the main building of Heathrow’s Terminal 5 was successfully completed in March.
		If, however, it does not meet this target, the new model might have proved to be a mirage.
	www.cipfa.org.uk /publicfinance/features_details.cfm?News_id=23755 (1881 words)

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	Christian Wolmar Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Over two decades thousands of children in care were abused by their carers.
		Investigative journalist Wolmar asks why this happened and was allowed to continue.
		He charts the troubled history of children's homes and analyzes how governments, charities, churches and the police allowed repeated abuse to go unchecked.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Christian_Wolmar (165 words)

	Friends of the Earth: Press Release: TOP JOURNALIST UNLOCKS LABOUR'S TRANSPORT GRIDLOCK (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Contact Us In the week Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott is due to launch a public debate on his planned integrated transport policy [2], Friends of the Earth today publishes a major new report outlining what he should do.
		Christian Wolmar's message is that change is needed and needed fast, but that the solutions to our transport crisis are within our grasp.
		Prescott to draw up and implement a national plan to reduce road traffic levels by 10% from 1990 levels by 2010 [4].
	www.foe.co.uk /pubsinfo/infoteam/pressrel/1997/19970818000154.html (539 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built and How It Changed the City Forever: ...
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		Although there are many Underground histories, Christian Wolmar's Subterranean Railway brings it across in a very digestible and gripping read.
		Wolmar takes an interesting perspective, focusing on the social aspect of the Underground and the benefits it brought London, as well as recognising those great characters that gave the capital the pioneering Subterranean Railway.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1843540231/ref=nosim/ukbooksearch-21 (701 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Talking Point \| Forum \| Safety on the tracks: Railway expert Christian Wolmar (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Railway expert Christian Wolmar, commentator for Rail Magazine, answered your questions in an interactive forum.
		The safety of Britain's railways has again come under the spotlight after another fatal rail crash.
		We know that rail maintenance is something that needs to be done the whole time so I would be much happier if they began to bring in house a lot of the contractors so they would then be able to have much more direct control over them.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/talking_point/forum/1981930.stm (1721 words)

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	www.date.com /chat/latvia-wolmar4.htm (284 words)

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