Publisher's Synopsis
Designed for easy reference, and with a comprehensive index, this is the 6th edition of a record of the achievements, facts and feats arising from the history of the world's railway systems and the people who created them. Its topics include first railways around the world; earliest and most outstanding railway engineers; tunnels, bridges, gauges, gradients and curves; steam, diesel and electric locomotives; accidents, signalling and railway safety through the years; modern high-speed traction and new railways; the proliferation of urban and rapid-transport systems; the Channel Tunnel and the European challenge; new forms of motive power, from linear induction to magnetic levitation; and railways in the environment and the arts.
