In the early days of tube railways in London there was little short of a mad scramble to get new tubes authorised for construction. Private and institutional finance was ...

From the late-nineteenth-century expansion of the local railway networks to the mergers, electrification and closures of more recent years, Edwin Course traces the fascinating ...

Whilst it is possible to gain a limited perspective of the rail network from the ground, it is only from the air that the true scale is revealed. This book includes more than ...