Travelling on the Victorian Railway

Travel in the Early Days of Steam

Anthony Dawson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

96 Seiten

2017
Amberley Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4456-6774-4 (ISBN)

Infos

‘The most striking result produced by the completion of this Railway, is the sudden and marvellous change which has been effected in our ideas of time and space. What was quick is now slow; what was distant is now near.’

So wrote Henry Booth of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. The early railways changed all aspects of life: what people ate (and how they cooked), what they wore and how they communicated. But what was it like to travel on the railways in the 1830s and 1840s? This book hopes to explore the experiences of these pioneer railway travellers, from the first railway stations and railway carriages to the hazards of the journey itself.

Autor

Anthony is an archaeologist and early railway historian who has authored many books for Amberley. He has also written several monographs on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway for Pen & Sword Transport. He is a member of the Railway & Canal Historical Society, the Newcomen Society and is a Director of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway Trust. He is also a member of the International Early Railways Conference committee and the 1722 Waggonway Heritage Group. He has appeared on several TV programmes including Secret History of the Railways and Time Team.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.11.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 100 Illustrations
• Verlagsort: Chalford
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 165 x 234 mm
• Gewicht: 285 g
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schienenfahrzeuge
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• ISBN-10: 1-4456-6774-6 / 1445667746
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4456-6774-4 / 9781445667744
• Zustand: Neuware