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What the Railways Did for Us: The Making of Modern Britain
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What the Railways Did for Us: The Making of Modern Britain Hardback - 2015

by Stuart Hylton

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From the publisher

It is hard, from a distance of nearly two centuries, to imagine the impact the coming of the railways must have had at the start of the nineteenth century. Their physical impact was dramatic enough - great mechanical horses, breathing fire and smoke and drawing impossibly heavy trains at unimaginable speeds, across a landscape transformed by the embankments and cuttings, viaducts and tunnels their passage demanded. However, they would also transform the way war was conducted and peace was maintained; prove to be one of the drivers of the dramatic industrial growth of the nineteenth century; create opportunities for many to become enormously wealthy, but impoverish many more, who invested unwisely; cause the state to think again about the policy of laissez-faire that was its default position; transform our leisure; radically re-shape our towns and cities and change our very notions of time and how we measured it. In this book, Stuart Hylton looks at the changes wrought in the British Isles during the first century of the railway age and answers the question, what did the railways do for us?

Details

  • Title What the Railways Did for Us: The Making of Modern Britain
  • Author Stuart Hylton
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition Hardback
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Amberley Publishing
  • Publication date 2015
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • ISBN 9781445641232 / 1445641232
  • Category Transportation
  • Library of Congress subjects Railroads - Social aspects - Great Britain -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2015487561
  • Dewey Decimal Code 385.09

About the author

Stuart Hylton grew up in Windsor, studied at Manchester University and has written over twenty books on historical subjects, local and national, including From Rationing to Rock, Their Darkest Hour, an alternative view of the Home Front during the Second World War, A History of Manchester, The Grand Experiment and The Horseless Carriage. He is a member of the Education Team at the Great Western Society s Didcot Railway Centre."

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