Death, dynamite and disaster : a grisly British railway history
Matheson, Rosa Marie2022
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In this fresh approach to railway history, Rosa Matheson explores the grim and grisly railway past. These horrible happenings include the lack of burial grounds for Londoner's dead, leading to the 'Necropolis Railway', disasters and accidents, digging up the dead, drowning in tunnels, fighting the last British 'Civil War' on the railway lines, and how the discovery of dynamite gave rise to the 'Dynamite Wars' on the London Underground in the 1880s and 1890s.
Main title:
Death, dynamite and disaster : a grisly British railway history / Rosa Matheson.
Author:
Matheson, Rosa Marie, author
Edition:
Second edition.
Imprint:
Cheltenham : The History Press, 2022.
Collation:
224 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Previous edition: 2014.
ISBN:
9780750998949 (pbk)
Dewey class:
363.122094109034363.122
LC class:
HE1783
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3061809