Table of Contents

1. Images • 2. Structures • 3. Machinery • 4. Practitioners • 5. The Artist’s Eye • 6. The Railways’ Vandalism • 7. Language and Literacy • 8. Literature • 9. Mails and Telecommunications • 10. The Press and the Book Trade • 11. Publicity and Public Relations • 12. Leisure (I): The Excursion Train and the Railway Sunday • 13. Leisure (II): Tourism and Family Holidays • 14. Mobility • 15. Uniformity and Difference • 16. Loss and Gain

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An encyclopedic survey of the Victorian railway, looking at every aspect of their influence on the Victorian world

About the Author

Jack Simmons was the foremost authority on British railway history. He was on the staff at the University of Leicester for over fifty years, first as Professor of History from 1947 to 1975, and then as Professor Emeritus. He died in 2000.

Reviews

'The scenery is magnificent … and every detail can be observed from Simmons’s window … The author presents a train-spotter’s paradise of information' - Matthew Parris, The Times

'This wonderful panorama …like one of those great canvases populated by half the inhabitants of Britain of which the Victorians were so fond … You will wallow in this book' - Miles Kington

'Tens of thousands of books have been written about railways … but no one has analysed the world the railways created … This is just what Jack Simmons has now done' - The Spectator