The Iron Road

Release year: 2014

Pages: 400

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley

ISBN: 1409347990

Hardback | Online

What people are saying..

Fascinating and informative. I had wondered how the author would deal with the ‘Beeching cuts’ in 1960s UK and I was pleased to see an unbiased account.

- Old Miseryguts (Amazon)

Just received @christianwolmar’s absolutely gorgeous new illustrated book on the history of the railway. Almost too good to open.

- David Aaronovitch

A fantastic book; and beautifully illustrated…tracing the development of railways from their origin as horse-drawn wagon ways to the high speed lines of today, and Maglev of the future. Railways are truly the agents of globalisation and the only economically & environmentally sound way of travel on the planet.

- Tony Scott

Economic historian, so I am liking it a lot though another major book on the subject is now out and await its paperback edition. It really is a well written and enlightening book, warmly recommended to anyone remotely interested in not just the railways but the huge associated changes that accompanied it.

- Tilak (Amazon)

From the early steam trains to the high-speed bullet trains of today, The Iron Road tells the hidden stories of railway history- the inspired engineering, blood, sweat and tears that went into the construction of the railways. This book is divided into 43 discrete chapters covering aspects of the history of the railways and is fully illustrated, with lots of factettes and anecdotes, throughout.

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What people are saying..

Fascinating and informative. I had wondered how the author would deal with the ‘Beeching cuts’ in 1960s UK and I was pleased to see an unbiased account.

- Old Miseryguts (Amazon)

Just received @christianwolmar’s absolutely gorgeous new illustrated book on the history of the railway. Almost too good to open.

- David Aaronovitch

A fantastic book; and beautifully illustrated…tracing the development of railways from their origin as horse-drawn wagon ways to the high speed lines of today, and Maglev of the future. Railways are truly the agents of globalisation and the only economically & environmentally sound way of travel on the planet.

- Tony Scott

Economic historian, so I am liking it a lot though another major book on the subject is now out and await its paperback edition. It really is a well written and enlightening book, warmly recommended to anyone remotely interested in not just the railways but the huge associated changes that accompanied it.

- Tilak (Amazon)

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