| 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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Fire and Steam; How the Railways Transformed Britain
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- Copyright: 2009-03-01
- Publisher: Atlantic Books
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