The Railway Navvies

A History of the Men who Made the Railways

Terry Coleman

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English

Head of Zeus
02 July 2015

History; British & Irish history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Industrialisation & industrial history; Trains & railways: general interest

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.

By: Terry Coleman
Imprint: Head of Zeus
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 522g
ISBN: 9781784082321
ISBN 10: 1784082325
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 02 July 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Terry Coleman is a historian, novelist, and award-winning reporter. His books include biographies of Olivier, Nelson and the history of British and Irish emigration, PASSAGE TO AMERICA. His novel SOUTHERN CROSS, was a worldwide bestseller.

Reviews for The Railway Navvies: A History of the Men who Made the Railways

'Coleman's pioneering work of industrial history is handsomely illustrated with prints and photographs from the time with a new introduction from the most distinguished recent historian of the railways' The National (Glasgow). 'Coleman's vivid and perceptive study of Victorian railway navvies is something of a landmark' Guardian. 'A brilliant book about a magnificent and vanished race of men' Listerner. 'Absorbing detail presented so readably that no one with a spark of imagination and a twinge of interest in people could fail to find this book a pleasure' Evening Standard.