Following its bestselling edition of Bradshaw's Handbook 1863 Old House brings you this fascinating guide to Europe's rail network on the very brink of the First World War Published in 1913 it is divided into three sections timetables for services covering the continent short guides to each city & notable destination & features & a wealth of advertisements & ephemeral materials concerning hotels restaurants & services that might be required by the early twentieth century traveller by rail It affords a fascinating glimpse of fin de siecle Europe & of a transport network that was shortly to be devastated by the greatest war the world had ever seen