"Three Men and a Bradshaw" is a collection of the irresistibly witty holiday journals of John George Freeman and his brothers, who were early passengers during the book years of the Victorian railway tourism industry.
Over-priced tickets, borderline-inedible food, inconsiderate fellow passengers and mile after mile of endless grey drizzle... There is much that remains all too familiar to the modern rail passenger in the 140-odd years that have passed since the early 1870s, when John George Freeman set out on a railway tour of Britain's most fashionable holiday destinations along with his...