British Rail: A New History

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 sold off. Now, award-winning writer Christian Wolmar provides a new perspective on national loss in a time of privatisation.
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SKU 464390
Library reference 9780241456200
Brand Penguin
Publisher Penguin
Format Hardback
pages 416
published June 2022
Author Christian Wolmar