The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground was Built and How it Changed the City Forever - Couverture souple

Wolmar, Christian

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9781843540236: The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground was Built and How it Changed the City Forever

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ISBN 10 : 1843540231 ISBN 13 : 9781843540236

Editeur : Atlantic Books, 2005

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Since the Victorian era, London's Underground has had played a vital role in the daily life of generations of Londoners. In The Subterranean Railway, Christian Wolmar celebrates the vision and determination of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made the world's first, and still the largest, underground passenger railway: one of the most impressive engineering achievements in history. From the early days of steam to electrification, via the Underground's contribution to twentieth-century industrial design and its role during two world wars, the story comes right up to the present with its sleek, driverless trains and the wrangles over the future of the system. The Subterranean Railway reveals London's hidden wonder in all its glory and shows how the railway beneath the streets helped create the city we know today.

Revue de presse :

I can think of few better ways to while away those elastic periods awaiting the arrival of the next eastbound Circle Line train than by reading [this book]. --Tom Fort, Sunday Telegraph
The ferocious rivalries, administrative bungles, short-sighted compromises, cost over-runs and delays. Railway politics were ever thus. --Independent
An excellent history of the London Underground --The Times

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