Huskisson, the ex-Colonial
Secretary, killed..Tennyson,
the poet, in transports.
Wellington, the Iron Duke, told
to get out of town.
Such were the by-products of the first
stean train to run on the Liverpool and
Manchester line in 1830.
With a crash, the Railway Age had begun
- that detonating age which shrank the
map, revolutionized war, shook society, and
knocked the nineteenth century sideways.
This is Michaol Robbins's colourful, infor-
mative account of the hectic heyday of the
iron road, when speculators crashed, trains
were kidnapped by rival companies, and
stations erupted in their Gothic splendour.
Deserves to become a classic of railway
literature'-Guardian
Corer design by Germano Facett
Secretary, killed..Tennyson,
the poet, in transports.
Wellington, the Iron Duke, told
to get out of town.
Such were the by-products of the first
stean train to run on the Liverpool and
Manchester line in 1830.
With a crash, the Railway Age had begun
- that detonating age which shrank the
map, revolutionized war, shook society, and
knocked the nineteenth century sideways.
This is Michaol Robbins's colourful, infor-
mative account of the hectic heyday of the
iron road, when speculators crashed, trains
were kidnapped by rival companies, and
stations erupted in their Gothic splendour.
Deserves to become a classic of railway
literature'-Guardian
Corer design by Germano Facett