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Atlas Of The World's Railways By Brian Hollingsworth Dust Jacket
Atlas Of The Worlds Railways By Brian Hollingsworth Dust Jacket 1980 FIRST EDITION 350 Pages
In the world today there are more than three-quarters of a million miles of railways blanketing the continents. Historically, railroads, although only 150 years old, have opened up continents, created trade routes and in general provided national and intercontinental transportation services on a scale never before imagined. Today more than seventy percent of the world's freight is carried by mil.
Atlas of the World's Railways covers the entire spectrum of rail travel today. It is arranged in alphabetical order by country by continent. Accompanied by maps obtained from the cartographers, George Philip & Son Limited, London and enriched by more than 60o photographs, Brian Hollingsworth and his colleagues escort the reader through the countries of the world, along narrow-gauge, metre-gauge and standard-gauge tracks, over bridges and viaducts, through tunnels, across deserts and up the sides of mountains. The history and modern workings of urban rapid transit systems, national and international railroad systems are described in vivid detail complete with relevant statistics: gauges, lengths and heights of bridges and tunnels, passengers and freight carried, rolling stock, locomotive power, percentage electrified and so on. A detailed table of contents precedes each section; countries which appear in more than one continent or are known by more than one name are fully cross-referenced. A detailed and complete index concludes the book. Atlas of the World's Railways not only is an accurate and up-to-date source book but is a pleasure to read, a truly popular reference work.
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