Eyre Methuen, London, 1975. Foxing to endpapers, previous owner's details on front endpaper. Small tear at top of dustjacket spine, and back at flap, other minor signs of secondhand wear to dustjacket.

This book ranges widely in its scope. Thought it is concerned with technology, with locomotives and rolling stock and operation, it also presentes the railway in its setting, as part of the social and political life of Britain in the 19th century and in our own time. It is generously illustrated, with 4 colour pictures and 95 pictures in black and white, as well as 5 maps.