The Pictorial Encyclopedia of Railways by Hamilton Ellis - 1968

London: Paul Hamlyn, 1968. DJ has some edge wear and several small tears, otherwise clean and bright, with a vivid colour photograph of a typical "Wild West" American steam engine crossing a bridge over a river. Price-clipped. Now protected inside a transparent cover. 591 pages, including numerous black and white and several full colour photographs and pictures.Here is the most exciting and comprehensive collection of railway pictures ever published. Over 800 pictures and 30,000 words of captions tell the story of railways from the first Babylonian rutways to the 100 mph monorail. Of special importance is the first ever published picture of the world's first public railway. See it in Plate I. The story of the social impact of railways, the opening up of unpopulated deserts, the revolution in military strategy, its furtherance of the industrial revolution, and the inside story of railways themselves, the development of steam, electricity and diesel locomotives, bridges and viaducts, signalling systems, underground and mountain lines, railway architecture - all emerge from these pages in historic and dramatic photographs. No one with the slightest interest in railways could fail to be excited by this book.. Second Impression. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Railways.