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British Railway Station: A Pictorial History
David & Charles

British Railway Station: A Pictorial History

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The British Railway Station portrays in introductory text, photographs and descriptive captions the development of the railway station, so much a feature of town and village life in many parts of the country until closures swept away so many lines. The photographs are from widely ranging and hitherto untapped sources and many are previously unpublished. They show the station not only as an important feature in the fascinating mixture which made up Victorian architecture, but also as an essential part of rail travel and which became an accepted institution in the urban and rural scene. Seven chapters are devoted to development from the primitive structures of the 1830s to the end of the Victorian age and onward towards our own day, followed by chapters on once familiar furnishings and fittings, and to that essential but almost unrecorded adjunct to the passenger station, the goods depot.

The final chapter, 'Making a Journey', depicts the social scene with some of the features taken for granted by our fore- bears but now forgotten or replaced. The period illustrations show both the typical and the unusual, and since only a handful of stations have escaped major alteration or, in many cases, complete demolition, the photographs form not only a valuable and important record of a major feature in British social history but also provide a nostalgic look at the great age of railways and railway architecture.

Hardback with dust jacket, 17x25cm, 96 pages, black & white photographs

Condition: Good/Very Good

ISBN: 9780715374672