Fire and Steam; How the Railways Transformed Britain

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• ISBN13: 9781590201251
• ISBN10: 1590201256
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2009-03-01
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
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Table of Contents

List of Maps and Illustrations	p. viii
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Maps	p. xvi
Introduction: Why Railways?	p. 1
The First Railway	p. 21
Getting the Railway Habit	p. 43
Joining Up Britain	p. 60
Changing Britain	p. 75
Railways Everywhere	p. 87
The Big Companies: Great But Not Necessarily Good	p. 108
The Agatha Christie Railway	p. 122
Danger and Exploitation on the Tracks	p. 146
Speeding to Danger	p. 164
The Only Way to Get There	p. 181
Fighting Together - Reluctantly	p. 206
Compromise - The Big Four	p. 229
And Then There Was One	p. 253
An Undeserved Reputation	p. 269
The Future is Rail	p. 300
Notes	p. 319
Further Reading	p. 339
Index	p. 345
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