Who won in a race between a train and a pigeon?How can you warn bats to leave a railway tunnel?Before the era of the car, which railway company carried the most prisoners?Colin G. Maggs has collected all of these answers – and more! – in Amazing and Curious Railway Tales, a compendium of stories, curiosities and little-known facts about Britain’s railways.
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A collection of fascinating railway oddities, curiosities and little-known facts

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ISBN
9780750994316
Publisert
2021-06-17
Utgiver
Vendor
The History Press Ltd
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198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Biographical note

Colin G. Maggs has had 105 books published to date, mostly on railway history. In 1993 HM the Queen awarded him an MBE for services to railway history. He has written countless railway newspaper and magazine articles, given broadcasts on TV and radio, talks to societies, and lectured on railway history at the University of Bath. He lives in Bath.