{"product_id":"express-trains-english-and-foreign-9780999011621","title":"Express Trains: English and Foreign","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the certainty, so soon after Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, of British (or, rather, English) supremacy in almost everything concerning railways, two late Victorians record and analyse the fastest passenger train services of the late 1880s in Britain and all lands overseas from which details are available. Their purview ranges from Anglo-Scottish expresses to the \"Orient Express\", India, Australia and America. Their racy style (for they write almost as one man) redolent of an age of optimism, pungent comments, graphic and humorous (of the period) descriptions and shrewd analyses must appeal to all with a general interest in railways. Their keen obser-vations of the idiosyncrasies of railway managements, not least those of the major English and Scottish companies, will be relished by connoisseurs. Their prophetic powers will be evi-dent to keen observers of rail-ways today in many lands. The co-authors' approach differs subtly from anything attempted in this field before or since. The railway and indeed the social historian will delight in reliable material regarding an epoch of rapid change. The student of current railway affairs will value a foil to the monochrome image of much railway trans-port today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardback with dust jacket, 14x22cm, 184 pages, maps\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good\/Very Good\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ian Allan","offers":[{"title":"Secondhand (399)","offer_id":58429864477055,"sku":"9780999011621","price":6.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1910\/7111\/files\/9780999011621.jpg?v=1789751145","url":"https:\/\/rail-books.co.uk\/products\/express-trains-english-and-foreign-9780999011621","provider":"Rail Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}