Railway Empire

How the British Gave Railways to the World

New Hardback Illustrated

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As the Industrial Revolution was gathering pace, Britain’s financiers, intrepid industrialists and adventurers allowed the country to lead the way in building railway lines not just in the Empire but in South America and East Asia. Starting from the early engineers, Anthony Burton explores the dominant political, economic and technical role British companies played in traversing the world’s most inhospitable environments.

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