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Penguin, 1968.
Description
This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Preached at and plundered, sworn at and swindled, this anarchic elite endured perils and disasters, and carved out of the English countryside an industrial-age architecture unparalleled in grandeur and audacity since the building of the cathedrals.
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LibraryThing member EricCostello
Interesting look at the culture and ethos of the workers that, in the main, built the British railway system in the early Victorian era. Good choice of illustrations as well, and pretty even-handed, if slightly repetitive in spots.
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