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
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Blood, Iron and Gold
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A Text Book Of Railway Engineering
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The Subterranean Railway
The Christmas Train
British Rail
The Railways: Nation, Network and People
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

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Ian Marchant
Railways, like Daleks, have difficulties in getting up hills.
Ian Marchant, Parallel Lines: Or, Journeys on the Railway of Dreams

Olga Tokarczuk
When you're traveling you need to take care of yourself to get by, you have to keep an eye on yourself and your place in the world. It means concentrating on yourself, thinking about yourself and looking after yourself. So when you travel all you really encounter is yourself, as if that were the whole point of it. When you're at home you simply are, you don't have to struggle with anything or achieve anything. You don't have to worry about the railways connections, and timetables, you don't need ...more
Olga Tokarczuk

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