Conserving the Railway Heritage
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: November 1, 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780419212805
First sentence: The emergence of the steam railway in the first quarter of the nineteenth century was a phenomenon of extraordinary importance, not only in the development of industrialization worldwide but as one of the key new technologies without which much of nineteenth-century civilization as we came to know it could not have come about.