An historical geography of railways in Great Britain and Ireland

Although a great deal has been published on the economic, social and engineering history of nineteenth-century railways, the work of historical geographers has been much less conspicuous.

This overview by David Turnock goes a long way towards restoring the balance.

It details every important aspect of the railway?s influence on spatial distribution of economic and social change, providing a full account of the nineteenth-century geography of the British Isles seen in the context of the railway.