Railways

A railway is a means of transport.

Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69
Fire & Steam: How the Railways Transformed Britain
Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
Blood, Iron and Gold
Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
A Text Book Of Railway Engineering
British Rail
The Railways: Nation, Network and People
The Subterranean Railway
Belles and Whistles: Five Journeys Through Time on Britain's Trains
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
The Christmas Train

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Harmik Vaishnav
“ The train is world in itself, a diminutive form of the culture of the country and its people. ”
― Harmik Vaishnav, Coffee Beans

Catherine  Hewitt
“ For many country folk, the railway was Paris. Its gleaming tracks brought tales of success, prosperity and realised dreams to the provinces, qualities with which the capital was increasingly seen as synonymous. For a countrywoman like Madeleine, short on money and luck, overworked, and whose future appeared only to offer more of the same, those dazzling steel tracks represented a chance. All at once, resignation turned to hope. Suddenly, Madeleine could see clearly. If she stayed in Bessines, he ...more ”
― Catherine Hewitt, Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon

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