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Classic Trains (A Channel Four Book) (Hardcover)
by Nicholas Faith (Author)
2.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)

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  • Hardcover: 144 pages
  • Publisher: Boxtree Ltd; New Ed edition (20 Feb 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0752211811
  • ISBN-13: 978-0752211817
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,678,169 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Exploring the "golden age" of trains - a period of privately owned, competitive railway companies - this book details the early explosion of competitive fervour which resulted in the carving-up of the English countryside to accommodate the new "iron horses". From those dramatic and turbulent beginnings, readers are led through the birth, demise and possible resurgence of the much loved and environmentally friendly rail-cars and trams, and behind the scenes of one of the busiest commuter systems in the world - the London Underground.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Attractive, but flawed, 15 May 1998
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This review is from: Classic Trains (A Channel Four Book) (Hardcover)
This is a handsome personal view of world railways, past and present, by an author with no hidden agendas. The author's style is clearly polemical, and none the worse for that. The illustrations are interesting and attractive. However, don't use it as a work of reference. The author has been let down badly by his editors and verifiers, and the book is littered with mistakes and inconsistencies. For instance, every railway fan knows the Stockton & Darlington Railway opened in 1825: this book gives 1824, 1825 and 1825 on three separate pages; it spells the name of the architect Philip Hardwicke in two different ways on the same page; another railway, described as cable-hauled, clearly uses locomotives in the illustration a few pages away; another picture purports to describe an electric loco as a diesel, and actually illustrates a driving luggage van! Buy the book for the attractiveness of the illustrations and the robustness of the author's views, but take the captions and the text with a large pinch of salt.