Travelling on the Victorian Railway: Travel in the Early Days of Steam

by Anthony Dawson

'The most striking result produced by the completion of this Railway, is the sudden and marvellous change which has been effected in our ideas of time and space. What was quick is now slow; what was distant is now near.' So wrote Henry Booth of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. The early railways changed all aspects of life: what people ate (and how they cooked), what they wore and how they communicated. But what was it like to travel on the railways...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445667746
• ISBN13: 9781445667744
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.4" x 9.1"