Bradshaw Guide The Railways Of Wales

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Bradshaw’s Guide of 1863 was the staple book to what’s what & where’s where for the mid-Victorians & it gives the modern reader a unique insight into the world of the nineteenth-century railway travellers. Built primarily to serve industry & the mail packets to Irel&, the railways of Wales would go on to open up the Principality to tourism for the first time. They also brought communities closer together & many journeys that once took days to complete could now be undertaken in hours. This illustrated guide records the sights to be seen in the towns & cities encountered along the various routes.

John Christopher & Campbell Mc Cutcheon take us on Brunel’s broad gauge lines in South Wales, before joining the central & northern railways, using contemporary Victorian & Edwardian photographs & postcards to illustrate the scenes that the readers of Bradshaw’s Guide to the Railways would have experienced. This volume covers the South Wales Railway, the Great Western Railway, the Cambrian lines & the Chester & Holyhead Railway as well as the many branch lines.

This paperback book has 96 pages & measures: 23.4 x 16.4 x 0.7cm