Brunel, Stephenson, Locke and Vignoles - these were the magic names.
And under them 10,000 laboured, blasting, shovelling and digging, changing
the contours of Britain for a new age of railways.Among them is Nick Wortley, whose love for the daughter of the local mill owner
is cruelly thwarted. Taking flight he is drawn by the irresistable clamour of the great
Sheffield to Manchester, a railway which is preparing to drive a path of steel under the
Pennines. Stephenson said it was impossible; Nick and his companions will prove
him wrong, but at a terrible price...
- ISBN10 029779034X
- ISBN13 9780297790341
- Publish Date 30 October 1986
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 July 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English