British Rail. A New History








You think you know British Rail. But you don't know the whole story. From its creation after the Second World War, through its fifty-year lifetime, British Rail was an innovative powerhouse that transformed our transport system. Uniting disparate lines into a highly competent organisation - heralding 'The Age of the Train' - and, for a time, providing one of the fastest regular rail services in the world. Born into post-war austerity, traumatised, impoverished and exploited by a hostile press, the state-owned railway was dismissed as a dinosaur unable to evolve, and swept away by a government hellbent on selling it off. Now, award-winning writer Christian Wolmar provides a new perspective on national loss in a time of privatisation. British Rail is ripe for a new history.
Go to description and details| Publisher | Penguin |
| Pages | 394 |
| Language | Английский |
| ISBN | 978-0-241-45620-0 |
You think you know British Rail. But you don't know the whole story. From its creation after the Second World War, through its fifty-year lifetime, British Rail was an innovative powerhouse that transformed our transport system. Uniting disparate lines into a highly competent organisation - heralding 'The Age of the Train' - and, for a time, providing one of the fastest regular rail services in the world. Born into post-war austerity, traumatised, impoverished and exploited by a hostile press, the state-owned railway was dismissed as a dinosaur unable to evolve, and swept away by a government hellbent on selling it off. Now, award-winning writer Christian Wolmar provides a new perspective on national loss in a time of privatisation. British Rail is ripe for a new history.
| Publisher | Penguin |
| Pages | 394 |
| Language | Английский |
| ISBN | 978-0-241-45620-0 |
| Cover | 7Б - твердая (плотная бумага или картон) |
| Paper | Типографская |
| Finishes | Тиснение цветное, частичная лакировка, супер |
| Illustrations | Черно-белые + цветные |
| Dimensions | 160 × 240 × 40 mm |
| Weight, g | 680 |