The Railway Navvies: A History of the Men Who Made the Railways

by Terry Coleman

Book Overview

This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England.

Preached at and plundered, sworn at and swindled, this anarchic elite endured perils and disasters, and carved out of the English countryside an industrial-age architecture unparalleled in grandeur and audacity since the building of the cathedrals.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784977349
• ISBN13: 9781784977344
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 7.7"