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The Untold Railway Stories

By Yvonne Adhiambo-Owuor and Monisha Rajesh and Shahnaz Habib and Clare Hammond and Vicki Pipe and Mark Ovenden and Sam Richards and Leon McCarron and Andrew Martin and Sam Williams and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
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A compendium of fascinating and evocative new writing on railway travel and history. Telling of little-known journeys and uncovered histories on railway routes around the world—from the UK, Europe and Africa to North America, the Middle East and Asia. From Myanmar's highlands to the British Pennines,... Read More
Format: Hardback
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A collection of new writing, little known stories and fresh perspectives on train travel and railway history, to mark the 200th anniversary of passenger rail journeys.

A global exploration of rail travel’s hidden histories, showing how trains transformed landscapes, lives and politics across continents

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A compendium of fascinating and evocative new writing on railway travel and history. Telling of little-known journeys and uncovered histories on railway routes around the world—from the UK, Europe and Africa to North America, the Middle East and Asia.

From Myanmar's highlands to the British Pennines, from slow travel between coffee plantations in Borneo to a cross-continent odyssey on African railways, from the pioneers of the American West to European trains in war, this is a new prism through which to explore human lives, and global landscapes, politics and history.

The Untold Railway Stories is a testament to both the joy and impact of train travel—to the ambition and ingenuity, and also to destruction and sacrifice within its history—and is published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the first passenger railway line.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780715656082

Publisher: Duckworth Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 11 September 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Duckworth

Contributors:

  • Edited by Monisha Rajesh
  • Contributions by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
  • Contributions by Mark Ovenden
  • Contributions by Andrew Martin
  • Contributions by Vicki Pipe
  • Contributions by Leon McCarron
  • Contributions by Clare Hammond
  • Contributions by Shahnaz Habib

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 256

Collections

African History Andrew Martin Biography & Memoir Clare Hammond Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Explorer & Adventurer Biographies History & Archaeology History & Military Leon McCarron Mark Ovenden Monisha Rajesh Non-Fiction Sam Richards Sam Williams Shahnaz Habib Travel & Adventure Vicki Pipe Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Yvonne Adhiambo-Owuor

About the Author

Monisha Rajesh is an author and journalist whose writing has appeared in Time magazine, Vanity Fair, the New York Times, the Guardian, The Sunday Times and the Sunday Telegraph, in which she wrote a monthly column about travelling the world by train. Her first book Around India in 80 Trains (2012) was named one of the Independent's top ten books on India. Her second book, Around the World in 80 Trains (2019) won the National Geographic Travel Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Award. @monisha_rajesh.

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