Exploring the "golden age" of trains - a period of privately owned, competitive railway companies - this book details the early explosion of competitive fervour which resulted in the carving-up of the English countryside to accommodate the new "iron horses". From those dramatic and turbulent beginnings, readers are led through the birth, demise and possible resurgence of the much loved and environmentally friendly rail-cars and trams, and behind the scenes of one of the busiest commuter systems in the world - the London Underground.
- ISBN10 0752211811
- ISBN13 9780752211817
- Publish Date 20 February 1998 (first published 17 January 1997)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 September 2001
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Boxtree Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 144
- Language English