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Describes how railway changed the face of British industry and stimulated development of many facets of modern life, from fish & chips to seaside holidays. This title celebrates the vision and determination of Victorian industrialists who developed this transport system and workers who cut through the land to enable a country-wide network to emerge.
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Fire and Steam: A New History of the Railways in Britain
2009, Atlantic Books, Limited
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Fire & steam: how the railways transformed Britain
2008, Atlantic Books
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Fire & steam: a new history of the railways in Britain
2008, ISIS
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Fire & steam: a new history of the railways in Britain
2007, Atlantic
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Introduction: Why railways?
1. The first railway
2. Getting the railway habit
3. Joining up Britain
4. Changing Britain
5. Railways everywhere
6. The big companies: Great but not necessarily good
7. The Agatha Christie Railway
8. Danger and exploitation on the tracks
9. Speeding to danger
10. The only way to get there
11. Fighting together-reluctantly
12. Compromise-the big four
13. And then there was one
14. An undeserved reputation
15. The future is rail.
Edition Notes
Originally published: London: Atlantic, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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'Fire & Steam' tells the dramatic story of the people and events that shaped the world's first railway network, one of the most impressive engineering achievements in history.
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