Railways

A railway is a means of transport.

Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69
Fire & Steam: How the Railways Transformed Britain
Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
Blood, Iron and Gold
British Rail
Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
A Text Book Of Railway Engineering
Belles and Whistles: Five Journeys Through Time on Britain's Trains
The Railways: Nation, Network and People
The Subterranean Railway
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
The Christmas Train

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Harmik Vaishnav
The train is world in itself, a diminutive form of the culture of the country and its people.
Harmik Vaishnav, Coffee Beans

Olga Tokarczuk
When you're traveling you need to take care of yourself to get by, you have to keep an eye on yourself and your place in the world. It means concentrating on yourself, thinking about yourself and looking after yourself. So when you travel all you really encounter is yourself, as if that were the whole point of it. When you're at home you simply are, you don't have to struggle with anything or achieve anything. You don't have to worry about the railways connections, and timetables, you don't need ...more
Olga Tokarczuk

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