Railway Carriages
$31.63
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
16 June 2019
Summary
From Stagecoach to Sleeper: A Journey Through Railway Carriages
Evolving from the horse-drawn stage coaches that they soon eclipsed, railway carriages steadily grew in sophistication so that by the end of the nineteenth century the railway passenger travelled in comfortable rolling stock of a design familiar to many until the 1960s.
While modern trains look different from those built more than a century ago, even today the facilities are not so dissimilar from those enjoyed …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784423209 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1784423203 |
| Series: | Shire Library |
| Author: | Tim Bryan |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Shire Publications |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 16 June 2019 |
| Weight: | 181g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 148mm x 12mm |
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About The Author
Tim Bryan
Tim Bryan worked as curator at the GWR and STEAM museums in Swindon for more than twenty years and is now Head of Collections at the British Motor Museum at Gaydon in Warwickshire. He is the author of seventeen books on railway and heritage topics and has written four titles for Shire. He lives in Swindon, UK.
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