Download or read book The World the Railways Made written by Nicholas Faith and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1990 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1825 and 1914 railways redefined, transformed, and extended the limits of the civilized world. This book explores the way in which this offshoot of industrial technology was used across the globe and in what ways it altered the countries and the peoples to which it came.