title: Illustrated Book of Steam and Rail: The History and Development of the Train and an Evocative Guide to the World's Great Train Journeys
author: Colin Dennis Garratt
description: Illustrated Book of Steam and Rail: The History and Development of the Train and an evocative guide to the world's greatest railway journeys.
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  [Start Reading](004.html#a9)
  
  
  [About A Book of Railway Journeys](024.html#a478)
  
  
  [About Ludovic Kennedy](025.html#a479)
  
  
  [About Christian Wolmar’s Railway Library](026.html)
  
  
  [Table of Contents](005.html#a10)
  
  
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  For Alastair  
  in the hope that he will come  
  to enjoy trains as much  
  as his father has.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Contents
  
  
  [Cover](001.html#a0)
  
  
  [Welcome Page](002.html#a1)
  
  
  [Dedication](004.html#a9)
  
  
  [Introduction](006.html#a172)
  
  
  [BRITAIN](007.html#a175)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [The first railway journey](008.html#a176)
  
  
  ANON
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [The Nineteenth Century](008.html#a179)
  
  
  ROY FULLER
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [For and against the railway train](008.html#a180)
  
  
  VARIOUS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Liverpool to Manchester, 1830](008.html#a182)
  
  
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