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Railway Age, The By L W Cowie Hard Cover 1978, 1979 printing 61 Pages
The Railway Age by LW Cowie
Hard Cover
61 pages
Copyright 1978, 1979 printing
CONTENTS
8 The first railways
10 The start of an era
12 The railway boom in Britain
14 Early railways in Europe
16 Early railways in America
18 Building the railways: the engineers
20 Building the railways : the navvies
22 The great age of steam
24 Towns and the railway
26 Railway architecture
28 Railways and the people
30 The search for comfort : Pullman
32 The Orient Express
34 Railways and leisure
36 The Blue Train
38 Royal trains
40 Opening up the world
42 Journey on an Indian train
44 The Trans-Siberian railway
46 Railways in Japan
48 The Canadian Pacific
50 Unusual railways
52 Trains in cities
54 Railways in war
56 Competition for the railways
58 Railways today
60 How to find out more
61 Index
ON THE BACK COVER
The coming of the railways heralded the dawn of a new age. No longer were people isolated in their villages, totally dependent for their food and raw materials on the land around them. In this book you will see how the railways changed the lives of ordinary people. Read about the men who built the railways and of the dangers and obstacles they had to overcome. And discover what it was like to travel on some of the famous and exotic trains of the past.
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