From the early days come tales of financial skulduggery and worries that sparks from locomotives might ignite sheep's fleeces. This volume includes stories of railway travel, from the palatial carriages of tsars and maharajahs to the open trucks of the 'lower orders', mishaps and faux pas.
From the early days come tales of financial skulduggery and worries that sparks from locomotives might ignite sheep's fleeces. This volume includes st...
In the long and absorbing history of Britain's railways and the men and women who have worked on them, the most challenging years were those of the two world wars. Neither of these wars could have been won without the railways. Transportation of everything that was grown, made or mined, as well as soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians was largely the task of the railways. Yet the contribution of railways, and railway men and women in wartime has often been overlooked. This book pays tribute to the way the railways and their staff responded to the demand that they do more with fewer...
In the long and absorbing history of Britain's railways and the men and women who have worked on them, the most challenging years were those of the tw...
