num_pages: 329
description: This fascinating collection of entertaining tales from as far afield as Europe, India and America reveals unusual and unconventional railway journeys across the centuries, including ghost trains, vanishing passengers and trains fitted with homing pigeons instead of a communication cord. 'Railway's Strangest Journeys' takes you on a journey from the dawn of railway travel, when speeds of fifteen miles an hour were considered blasphemous and damaging to one's internal organs, through the Victorian heyday of Royal Trains and seaside specials, right up to the modern day.
language: English
title: Railways' Strangest Journeys: Curious and colourful journeys from over 150 years of rail travel
publisher: Robson Books