The Untold Railway Stories
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The Untold Railway Stories
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
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
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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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