| Working on the Victorian Railway: Life in the Early Days of Steam Contributor(s): Dawson, Anthony (Author) |
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ISBN: 1445665220 ISBN-13: 9781445665221 Publisher: Amberley Publishing OUR PRICE: $21.56 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Transportation | Railroads - General - History | Modern - 19th Century |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 6.4" W x 9.1" (0.40 lbs) 96 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
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| Publisher Description: The quarter-century after the Rainhill Trials was an exciting period of growth and experimentation on the railways. The railway locomotive evolved from a lumbering curiosity to being indispensable - changing every aspect of daily life, from food (and how it was cooked), to heating and clothing - with more than 7,000 miles of track being laid in Britain between 1830 and 1855, and found on just about every continent around the globe. Much has been written about the success of the Rocket at the Rainhill Trials, but what was it like to drive Rocket and her contemporaries? Drawing on a wealth of early railway records, rules and regulations, together with the practical experience of working on replica early locomotives, Anthony Dawson sets out to explore what it was like to work, and travel, on Britain's earliest railways during the first quarter-century after the Rainhill Trials. |
Contributor Bio(s): Dawson, Anthony: - Anthony Dawson has a lifetime's interest in railways; he is a graduate both of the University of Bradford (B.Sc hons, archaeology) and the University of Leeds (M.Res, history). Anthony is a member of staff at the Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester, where he puts his enthusiasm for early railways into practice as a Railway Volunteer on the replica 'Planet' locomotive. |