Our Home Railways by WJ Gordon Classics of Railway Literature Volume 1

DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION

The Edwardian decade saw our railways at the height of their glory, when efficiency, technical ingenuity and skills of all kinds and commercial enterprise were combined with colourful (in every sense) individuality and —for that age—high speed. In his racy accounts of the "first eleven" English, the five Scottish and the London Underground lines as they were in 1910, W. J. Gordon created a vivid portrait of the end of a Golden Age, now reprinted by photo-lithography after half-acentury and on the eve of changes which may make the British railway system unrecognisable to those who found such delight in the original publication. Apart from the interest of the information on practices of 50 years ago, much of this is yet applicable to railways today. The book is rich in historical data and anecdotes, and the many photographs, including motive power and rolling stock, preserve features and scenes which have gone or are about to go for ever.