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This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways – the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Preached at and plundered, sworn at and swindled, this anarchic elite endured perils and disasters, and carved out of the English countryside an industrial-age architecture unparalleled in grandeur and audacity since the building of the cathedrals.

The Railway Navvies: A History of the Men who Made the Railways

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    Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
    Publication Date: 11/07/2019
    ISBN13: 9781784977344, 978-1784977344
    ISBN10: 1784977349

    Number of Pages: 320

    Non Fiction , Home & Garden

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    This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways – the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Preached at and plundered, sworn at and swindled, this anarchic elite endured perils and disasters, and carved out of the English countryside an industrial-age architecture unparalleled in grandeur and audacity since the building of the cathedrals.

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