Over 90 illustrations. Railroads transformed not just common means of transportation but cities, countries, and continents. Trains and their engines became embl

The great arched train sheds of Victorian Britain are often seen as the nineteenth-century equivalent of medieval cathedrals: once specific railway buildings be

Railway buildings have always had a fascinating character all of their own, despite many no longer being in operational railway service. This book tells the sto

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the publi

An illustrated historical tour of London's 13 great railway termini, on a clockwise circuit from Paddington to Victoria. London's railway termini are among the