Railway Blunders

Vaughan, Adrian

ISBN 10: 0711028362 / ISBN 13: 9780711028364

Published by Hersham, Ian Allan Publishing, 2004, 2003

About this Item

Fine black boards (hardback) with gilt lettering to the spine, fine coloured pictorial dust jacket, not price clipped, no inscriptions and no marks. Internally immaculate, 160 pages, illustrated in black and white, over the 200 year history of railways in the British Isles there have been a number of design and engineering blunders connected to the railways. In this book many of these unforeseen problems are highlighted. Size 10 x 8.00 inches approx.

Seller Inventory # 16127

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Railway Blunders
• Publisher: Hersham, Ian Allan Publishing, 2004
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0711028362
• ISBN 13: 9780711028364
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

Railway Blunders

About the Author

Adrian Vaughan is one of the country's foremost railway historians. He's written over 30 books on various aspects of the railway scene and he has two new volumes out now which he's been talking about on Up All Night. The first is a biography of one of the forgotten men of the Victorian era. He was called Samuel Morton Peto and he was one of the contractors who actually built the railway system. The other book is Adrian's take on the privatisation of the industry in the 1990s which he calls The Greatest Railway Blunder. Born in 1941 Adrian Vaughan spent the first part of his working life as a signalman on the line which was once the Great Western Railway built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Up All Night's Howard Benson went to talk to him as he worked in the signal box at Sheringham on the North Norfolk Railway. Below you can listen to our three part feature.