Professor Jack Simmons was the most eminent railway historian of
his time. His magnum opus was to have been a four volume study of
the railways in England and Wales between 1830 and 1914. It is a
regret the work was never completed but Faber Finds are proud to
reissue the two volumes that were published. The first volume
describes the growth of the railway system from the opening of the
Liverpool & Manchester Railway to the outbreak of the First
World War. The second half of the book discusses the technology of
railways, their track and civil engineering, the machines and
vehicles used and the safety precautions developed for controlling
an increasingly complex system. A final chapter considers the
private companies that built and owned the railways. An appendix
examines the services offered to passengers, especially that
English invention, the express train.
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