The Making of a Railway : The Building of the Great Central

by L.T.C. Rolt

Running from Nottingham to London Marylebone, the Great Central Railway was built between 1894 and 1899; during those five years, S.W.A. Newton, a Leicester photographer, took shots of the wide variety of scenery and character provided by the construction and later the operation of the last main line. Originally published in 1971.

160 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Lionel Thomas Caswall Rolt (usually abbreviated to Tom Rolt or L.T.C. Rolt) was a prolific English writer and the biographer of major civil engineering figures including Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Thomas Telford. He is also regarded as one of the pioneers of the leisure cruising industry on Britain's inland waterways, and as an enthusiast for both vintage cars and heritage railways.