RAILWAYS: A HISTORY IN DRAWINGS (HB)

The advent of railways in Britain was a fundamental part of its economic and social revolution in the 19th century, with technical advances that were the envy of the world and chronicled from the beginning through meticulous drawings. Miraculously, about a million of these magnificent drawings have survived. Christopher Valkoinen has selected over 130 examples that tell the engineering history of great innovations and triumphs. There are also drawings for railways around the world: the USA, Russia, Japan, India, Australia and Egypt, among others, as well as contemporary photographs and posters.