The hundred years from 1850 to 1950 were London's railway century, an era during which the city was defined by its railways: grimy and utilitarian yet at the sa

A lavish photographic history of all the key railway stations of London for transport buffs and anyone interested in the rich history of London.

In the nineteenth century London was the most important city in the world, the capital of an empire 'on which the sun never set.' This was the golden age of rai

This 1954 volume explores trends in the distributive trades in the United Kingdom from 1850-1950.

This study offers an analysis of the technological and entrepreneurial features of the Victorian telegraph service, together with the companies which ran it unt