Cover art for The Railway Navvies
Published
Head Of Zeus, November 2018
ISBN
9781784977344
Format
Softcover, 320 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.9cm

The Railway Navvies A History of the Men who Made the Railways by

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Pick, shovel, dynamite: the classic account of the men who built the railways.

This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England.

Preached at and plundered, sworn at and swindled, this anarchic elite endured perils and disasters, and carved out of the English countryside an industrial-age architecture unparalleled in grandeur and audacity since the building of the cathedrals.

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