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India was the jewel in the crown of the British Empire. There were vast riches to be exploited and vast numbers of people to be subjugated. How better to achieve these aims than by building a rail network that facilitated the export of raw material and made it easier for troops to travel around the country to tackle uprisings?
India joined the railway age late: the first line was not completed until 1853 but, by 1929, 41,000 miles of track served...
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Transport is key to our daily lives. The transport system is essential to ensure the movement of people and goods, and most of us will use the roads or public transport every day. Vast sums are tied up in it, and are spent on trying to resolve the problems of congestion and delays. And, yet it is a most neglected field of politics. Britain has never had a coherent transport policy. Transport ministers are regarded, as minnows compared with their 'big...
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The opening of the world's first railroad in Britain and America in 1830 marked the dawn of a new age. Within the course of a decade, tracks were being laid as far afield as Australia and Cuba, and by the outbreak of World War I, the United States alone boasted over a quarter of a million miles. With unrelenting determination, architectural innovation, and under gruesome labor conditions, a global railroad network was built that forever changed the...
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Driverless cars are the future. That is what the tech giants, the auto industry and even the government want us to think. Almost daily, there are media stories about how we will soon all be able to rip up our driving licenses, sit in the back seat and let the car take us around. But, is this really going to happen? Christian Wolmar has dug behind the hype and found a very different story. We are nowhere near this driverless utopia. Indeed, it may...
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London hosts a dozen major railway stations, more than any comparable city. King's Cross, St Pancras, Euston, Marylebone, Paddington, Victoria, Charing Cross, Cannon Street, Waterloo, London Bridge, Liverpool Street and Fenchurch Street-these great termini are the hub of London's transport system and their complex history, of growth, decline and epic renewal has determined much of the city's character today. Christian Wolmar tells the dramatic and...
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