Description
Trains throughout the world continue to evoke admiration, affection and nostalgia.
Their history is romantic and colourful covering almost every nation throughout the world. Railways in the Twentieth Century faces their development from the dawn of superheated steam and the era of the Mallets* and Pacifics to the high-speed technological age of SNCF’S TGV and Britain’s Advanced Passenger Train.
Geoffrey Freeman Allen’s superb account of the changes and development of every facet of railway history is complemented by 75 colour and over 200 black-and-white photographs which lavishly illustrate the development of the world’s railway systems. its locomotives and the transition from steam to diesel and electricity. This is set against a background of social and political change and ever growing competition from the aeroplane and motor-car. Here is a history of genius. initiative. endeavour and achievement from the early electrification of the Swiss Alpine routes right through the intervening years to the present. when shaped and developed by social needs and economic climates. today’s railways press on towards the 200 mph horizon.
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