War Before Railways The Railways Called into Action Slavery Loses Out to the Iron Road Lessons Not Learnt The New Weapon of War The War the World Anticipated The Great Railway War on the Western Front Eastern Contrasts Here We Go Again Blood on the Tracks
Introduction: Why Railways? The First Railway Getting the Railway Habit Joining Up Britain Changing Britain Railways Everywhere The Big Companies: Great But Not Necessarily Good The Agatha Christie Railway Danger and Exploitation on the Tracks Speeding to Danger The Only Way to Get There Fighting Together – Reluctantly Compromise – The Big Four And Then …