Taking the train : two centuries of railway travel
Burton, Anthony, 1934-2024
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This text looks at rail travel from the passenger's point of view, beginning when a coach drawn by horses, rumbled down the newly laid tracks linking Swansea to Mumbles in 1807 and takes the reader right up to the present day. It was not long after that first service opened in Wales that the first steam passenger trains began to operate. The story broadens out from the first inter-city line connecting Liverpool to Manchester to spread first around Britain and eventually spread across the world. The book paints pictures of how travel seemed to passengers in different countries, drawing on many first-hand accounts.
Main title:
Taking the train : two centuries of railway travel / Anthony Burton.
Author:
Burton, Anthony, 1934-, author
Imprint:
Barnsley : Pen & Sword Transport, 2024.
Collation:
184 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9781399036702 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
BRN:
2740047
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