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Early British Railways By Christian Barman Hard Cover with 16 reproductions of o
Early British Railways By Christian Barman Hard Cover with 16 reproductions of old prints and drawings 1950 56 pages Side Binding cover loose
THE COMING OF THE RAILWAYS is an event of some importance in our island history. We know this because our historians have told us. They have done so over and over again and still they like to repeat it. 'England's gift to the world,' says Trevelyan. The greatest physical achievement carried out by the human race within a comparatively short space of time,' says Professor Woodward. We nod in agreement. We register the fact in our minds as we register Henry Mrs Reformation or the discovery of America. What we are too apt to overlook is that unlike those other tremendous happenings the railways are a physical thing, as real and concrete as the Cheviot mountains or the waters of the North Sea. We forget that this physical thing is still with us, largely undiminished and undamaged. A great part of our old civic buildings, our streets, our designed landscapes, have disappeared in the course of the centuries - worn out, burnt down, destroyed in war, pulled down for development. Only of this noble heritage of railway works can it he said that the significant bulk of it still stands.
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