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  title info:
    title: Railways in Victorian London
    sub title: how railway development changed London
  name:
    name part: Brandon, David
    name part: 1946-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 212 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
  abstract: London has always been a major transport hub. Indeed, it owes its origins to being the location in ancient times of what was then the lowest bridging point of the River Thames. From the 1830s to 1914 it became the focal point of Britain's railway system. In that time a railway network of extraordinary complexity developed, serving the needs of London's citizens and providing access for huge numbers of visitors of all kinds. Here we consider some of the ways in which the railways contributed to London's transformation into a world city, perhaps THE world city of the Victorian and Edwardian period. With an emphasis on the social impact of the railways, the book examines, among other issues, how they contributed to the growth of suburbia, helped to provide London with vital supplies of food and fuel, the way in which the Underground made it quicker and easier to move about, produced huge, luxurious hotels and spectacular bridges and destroyed some of the capital's worst slums. London has always had an underbelly and the coming of the railways created new opportunities for criminal activity. In fictional crime, Sherlock Holmes made frequent use of the railways. Artists found in railways a source of inspiration for their works. Above all, the railways broke down regionalism and helped to develop and reinforce the domination of London over Britain's political and cultural life.
  note: David Brandon.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-206) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk-en
  subject:
    topic: Railroads
    geographic: England
    geographic: London
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Railroads
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    geographic: London (England)
    topic: History
    temporal: 1800-1950
  classification: HE3019.L66 B736 2025
  classification: 385.094212
  identifier: 9781399051125
  identifier: 1399051121
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 250610
    record change date: 20260220161404.3
    record identifier: in00005678378