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'Fire & Steam' tells the dramatic story of the people and events that shaped the world's first railway network, one of the most impressive engineering achievements in history.
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Fire and Steam: A New History of the Railways in Britain
2009, Atlantic Books, Limited
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Fire & steam: how the railways transformed Britain
2008, Atlantic Books
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Fire & steam: a new history of the railways in Britain
2008, ISIS
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Fire & steam: a new history of the railways in Britain
2007, Atlantic
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Fire & steam: a new history of the railways in Britain
2007, Atlantic
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Fire & steam: a new history of the railways in Britain
2007, Atlantic
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Book Details
Table of Contents
The first railway
Getting the railway habit
Joining up Britain
Changing Britain
Railways everywhere
The big companies : great but not necessarily good
The Agatha Christie railway
Danger and exploitation on the tracks
Speeding to danger
The only way to get there
Fighting together
reluctantly
Compromise
the big four
And then there was one
An undeserved reputation
The future is rail.
Edition Notes
Originally published: London: Atlantic, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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