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Above Ground
Author_F.S. Williams
birmingham
Birmingham Line
Birmingham Railway
British industrial revolution
Caledonian Railway
Carlisle Line
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Chat Moss
civil engineering methods
company
Conferred
Darlington Line
eastern
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Express Train
Fireman
Gothard Tunnels
Great Railway Company
Great Western Railway
historical railway construction techniques
IRON ROADS
midland
Midland Company
MIDLAND RAILWAY
Midland Railway Company
Mont Cenis
nineteenth century innovation
North Western Company
passenger
Passenger Train
Pullman Cars
railway
Railway Companies
railway engineering
robert
ROYAL BORDER BRIDGE
south
stephenson
Sterling
train
transport history
Vacuum Brake
Victorian infrastructure
Product details
- ISBN 9781138866027
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 07 Apr 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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First published in 1968. It was probably the Great Exhibition of 1851 which inspired the son of a Congregational minister to publish the first book on the rise and progress of the railway system designed for the non-specialist reader. The resources of British railways had never before been so heavily taxed as they were in the summer of 1851, many had come by railway and had seen and used engineering wonders of which they might be expected to seek to know more. The first edition of this book appeared in 1852 and it included 37 woodcuts showing interesting features of railway construction and working, and was described by The Economist as being historic and scientific.
