Bradshaw’s Guide 7 - The Railways of Wales

The Bradshaw’s Guide 7: The Railways of Wales - Signed copy

The popular Bradshaw’s Guide of 1863 offers a unique insight into the world of the nineteenth-century railway traveller. Built primarily to serve industry and the mail packets to Ireland, the railways of Wales would go on to open up the Principality to tourism for the first time. They also brought communities closer together and many journeys that once took days to complete could now be undertaken in hours. 

What's inside this Bradshaw Guide 'The Railways of Wales'

This illustrated guide records the sights to be seen in the towns and cities encountered along the various routes. John Christopher and Campbell McCutcheon take us on Brunel’s broad gauge lines in South Wales, before joining the central and northern railways, using contemporary Victorian and Edwardian photographs and postcards to illustrate the scenes that readers of Bradshaw’s Guide would have experienced.

This volume covers the South Wales Railway, the GWR, the Cambrian lines and the Chester & Holyhead Railway as well as many branch lines.

'Bradshaw’s Guide 7: The Railways of Wales' in detail

Authors: John Christopher (signed) and Campbell McCutcheon
Publisher: Amberley Publishing 2015
ISBN: 9781445638515
Format: Softback, 96 pages
Size: 234 x 165 mm
Condition: New

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