
British Rail
$140.42
- Hardcover
416 pages
- Release Date
9 June 2022
Summary
From Rails to Rust: The Untold Story of British Rail
You think you know British Rail. Stale sandwiches, inefficiency, and violent yellow carriages – we haven’t looked kindly on the last of our state-owned organizations to be privatized.
But through its 50-year lifetime, British Rail transformed our transport system and, for a time, provided one of the fastest regular rail services in the world.
Born into postwar austerity, impoverished, and exploited by a hostile pre…
Book Details
ISBN-13: | 9780241456200 |
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ISBN-10: | 0241456207 |
Author: | Christian Wolmar |
Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Imprint: | Michael Joseph Ltd |
Format: | Hardcover |
Number of Pages: | 416 |
Release Date: | 9 June 2022 |
Weight: | 685g |
Dimensions: | 240mm x 162mm x 38mm |
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About The Author
Christian Wolmar
Acknowledged as one of the UK’s leading commentators on transport matters, Christian Wolmar is an award-winning writer and broadcaster specializing in transport, and the author of a series of books on railway history. He is a frequent speaker at conferences, regularly appears on TV and radio, and writes for a wide variety of publications including The Times, The Guardian, The Oldie, and Public Finance. His books include The Great British Railway Disaster (1997), Stagecoach (1999), Down the Tube (2002), The Subterranean Railway (2004), Broken Rails (2001, updated 2005), On the Wrong Line (2005), Fire and Steam (2009), Blood, Iron and Gold (2009), Engines of War (2010), The Great Railway Revolution (2013), and Railways and The Raj (2017). He has been described as “our most eminent transport journalist” by The Spectator and “the greatest expert on British trains” by The Guardian.
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