One of the most important developments in European history, the railways helped create the social and economic fabric of the continent. In the ‘Golden Age’ of the railways, from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth, there was no more exciting, exotic or desirable way to travel.As the major railway companies quickly became huge industrial powers in their own right, they began to influence the infrastructure of trade, industry, agriculture and settlement. In some countries the bulk of the railway network was centralized under state control, while in others corporate and personal fortunes were won and lost as railway fever spread far and wide.Crossing stunning landscapes, linking the continent’s great cities, and bringing natural wonders within thereach of ordinary people, the railways encouraged the growth of tourism industry, which in turn spurred thedevelopment of dramatic poster art.All these aspects of the early decades of European railway history are explored in this elegant, lavishlyillustrated volume. The social, economic, environmental and technological challenges and achievements are allcovered, together with highlights of the routes and the experiences of eager train passengers.The Golden Age of European Railways contains more than three hundred contemporary illustrations as well asroute maps, schedules, technical appendices, and the fascinating perspectives of a team of award-winningwriters and acknowledged railway experts.
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Christian Wolmar is a writer and broadcaster specialising in transport. He has spent nearly all of his working life as a journalist, and was at The Independent from 1989 to 1997, mostly as transport correspondent. His history of Britain's Railways, Fire and Steam, is widely acclaimed, and in 2009 he published Blood, Iron and Gold, about how railways tranformed the world. His book on the role of railways in war, Engines of War, was published in September 2010.
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