Hardback book "Britain's Railways Under Steam" by J B Snell.

Good condition.

"This book gives an account (with maps) of the construction and development of the main line and long distance railway network of England, Scotland, and Wales treating each part of the country as a whole, and tracing those effects of past rivalries and competition which are now influencing future plans.

There is a section on steam locomotive design and operation, and an examination of the kind of services the railways provided in the Steam Age, together with an outline of the economic and social reasoning which lay behind their policy at different times."