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Bradshaw's Handbook

Bradshaw's Handbook

1861 Railway Handbook of Great Britain and Ireland

by George Bradshaw
Hardback
Publication Date: 24/11/2014

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An enlarged facsimile edition of Bradshaw's descriptive railway handbook of Great Britain and Ireland of 1861.

Bradshaw's original tourist guide to rail travel is the star of the BBC's television series 'Great British Railway Journeys' as used by Michael Portillo.

The original Bradshaws book was produced in 1861, at the time that the railways became essential for tourism as well as infrastructure.

This new larger format facsimile edition gives you the chance to explore what is now common through the eyes of a nation for whom rail travel was still a novelty of the age, and provides a fascinating view of railway travel in the nineteenth century.

ISBN:
9780007591893
9780007591893
Category:
Trains & railways: general interest
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
24-11-2014
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
560
Dimensions (mm):
258x201x37mm
Weight:
1.33kg
George Bradshaw

George Bradshaw became famous for producing the world's most successful and longest running combined railway timetable a publication to be found in the library of every Victorian traveller.

But in the middle of the 19th century, with the railway network reaching its peak, his company shifted focus to tourist guides, such as this one, designed for the rail traveller.

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