{"product_id":"9780747812548","title":"The Country Railway","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Bryan, Tim \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 09\/08\/2013,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 64 pages, 50 b\/w; 20 col,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780747812548,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBritain’s towns and cities were famously transformed in the nineteenth century by the coming of the railways. Yet the effect on the rural population was arguably far greater.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllustrated throughout, this nostalgic little book explores the network of smaller cross-country and branch lines that followed opened up large tracts of previously remote countryside, providing new markets for agricultural produce and ending the isolation of many rural communities. Such was the pace of development during the Railway Mania period in fact, that by the end of the nineteenth century there were few areas of country not served by train.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book tells the story of these country railways from their golden age to their decline in the wake of nationalisation and the Beeching Report in the mid-twentieth century – and indeed current efforts to restore and preserve them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57697504428405,"sku":"9780747812548","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780747812548.jpg?v=1793099089","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.info\/products\/9780747812548","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}