Dickens on Railways : A Great Novelist's Travels by Train

Author: Dickens, Charles, Williams, Tony

Trains & railways: general interest

Published on 26 October 2020 by Safe Haven Books in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 224 pages, 10 black and white illustrations
136 x 205 x 18 | 278g

In the mid-nineteenth century, the great age of railway building, Charles Dickens could not but be aware of their transformative impact on society. So he wrote about it - to a remarkable extent. He wrote a classic ghost story, 'The Signalman'; in Dombey and Son about what is now the West Coast Main Line being carved through north London in great ravines. He wrote satirical pieces about railway catering - even back then; about the wonder of express train travel to the Channel ports; travel pieces about exploring America by train - and about being personally involved in the notorious Staplehurst train crash in Kent. Now, in the year of Dickens' 150th anniversary, Tony Williams, a distinguished Dickens scholar, collects all these railway writings into a handsome little volume ideal for a long train journey...