RAILWAYS: Amazing and Extraordinary Facts

The Railway Junction by Walter de la Mare, A Local Train of Thought by Siegfried Sassoon, the battle of the gauges, famous locomotive engineers, From A Railway Carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson, British Rail Speed Records, famous loco designers, Dr Beeching, four into one equals BR, King's Cross Station by G. K. Chesterton, The Send-Off by Wilfred Owen, from gunboats to corpses, cliffhangers to the king of the castles, the Welsh Phoenix and along the route is the Great Central, here are poems and facts and tracks and crashes, a table of Worst Railway Accidents, an eccentric railway empire, the Tay Bridge Disaster, Brunel, streakers and more. Why did Brunel's atmospheric South Devon railway fail? What is the story between Mallard's speed record? From the euphoric to the poignant, travel through this enthralling history of our railways. First published by David & Charles in 2007 and reprinted many times. All original line art and photos. 144pp.