Author

Tom Cunnington

Date

18th November 2016

Reading Time

2 minutes

We’ve got a copy of Simon Bradley’s highly praised book “The Railway” to give away. Originally launched in hardback at Keen House, it’s out now in paperback.

An extraordinary social history of Britain’s rail networks and its people, that will appeal to railway enthusiasts, commuters and everyone else who travels by train. It even mentions our layout Copenhagen Fields (see below)!

All you have to do is sign up to our email list by 30th November 2016, and we’ll select one person at random to receive a paperback copy in time for Christmas, courtesy of Profile Books. Please use the form on the right to submit your email address. Some quick rules:

1. Open to non-members only
2. One entry per person,
3. postage only with the UK.
4. We will contact the winner by email
5. Judge’s decsison is final

 

 

 

Some of the Reviews:

The Railways – history book of the year: Bradley’s loving tribute to the golden age of the railway is a magnificent achievement … a gorgeous Christmas pudding of a book … Most eye-catching are the superbly crafted chapters on accidents and murders, yet where his book really shines is in its portraits of the British themselves … His book is so colourful, so rich and engaging, that even if you don’t like railways you should love it.

– Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times

Simon Bradley’s The Railways is magisterial. It’s both authoritative and absorbing. A first class journey.

– Michael Palin

Rich and revealing … [Bradley’s] special delight is in ferreting out the telling, often surprising detail that brings the great themes of his story alive … a monumental work.

– Daily Telegraph

Combining authority with intimacy, and technical grasp with humour and humanity, The Railways is by some distance the most ambitious and enriching book I have ever read on this subject. It is destined to become a classic of British social history.

– David Kynaston

‘A superbly crafted, lovingly assembled tribute to our railways … the current, tattered state of our railways should in no way detract from Bradley’s narrative. This is a first-class, entertaining analysis of a great, albeit troubled, institution that has now been given a history worthy of its national significance.’

– Robin McKie, The Observer