Battle for The North - The Tay and Forth Bridges and the C19th Railway Wars
Title: Battle for The North - The Tay and Forth Bridges and the 19th century Railway Wars
Author: Charles McKean
Publisher: Granta Publications, London
Date: 2006
Hardback - 1st Edition 390pp, b&w illustrations, notes bibliography, index
Synopsis
This epic tale follows the railway battle for Scotland from 1845 and the people it involved from the Victorian entrepreneurs, poets, town councillors; to the engineers, briggers and rivet boys; to the pioneering contractor William Arrol who constructed the bridges that stand today. The book explores the complicated reality underlying the Victorian pursuit of prgress.
Condition Notes
A very well p[resented 1st Edition with good clean original dustcover and no obvious defects.
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