By Christian Wolmar

Written through Christian Wolmar, writer of the severely acclaimed The nice Railroad Revolution, The Iron Road is a richly illustrated account of the increase of the rails around the world.

From the historical second in September 1830 while the 1st teach ran among Liverpool and Manchester, to the excessive pace trains bulleting throughout Asia and Europe, The Iron highway: An Illustrated heritage of the Railroad seems at how railroads have replaced the world.

Photographs, maps, work, and illustrations deliver occasions and destinations to existence, including a special visible caliber to the tales of significant invention, feats of mind-boggling engineering, groundbreaking adjustments in alternate and trade, and stories of adventurers, visionaries, and rogues.

The Iron Road is the 3rd identify in DK's winning illustrated histories structure, which mixes text-rich narratives with attractive visible design.

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The railroads, in fact, grew symbiotically with the US economy, transforming the nation from a predominantly agricultural country into the industrial powerhouse of the world, all within a few decades. It is impossible to know whether the tracks spread so quickly because of the rapid growth in wealth, or whether it was the other way around, but there is no doubt that the US thrived because of the growing railroad system and that the railroads welded this vast nation together (see also Crossing America).

There were many who argued that train travel would never be popular, or that horses should provide the power, but once the world’s first major railroad, the Liverpool and Manchester line, opened in England in 1830, there was no stopping the spread of the iron road. The United States quickly followed, and the invention spread throughout Europe—tentatively at first, but then quite rapidly. Lines were opened to enormous fanfare, and people flocked to the new stations—many to begin routines of journeying to work by rail, many just to enjoy the new technology.

Saxony, another important German state, followed Bavaria’s lead, building Germany’s first major railroad, linking Leipzig with Dresden. Saxony was the industrial heartland of Germany, similar in character to the northwest of England, where the pioneering Liverpool and Manchester line had been built (see Manchester line). More than 200 factories had sprung up in the region, and local industrialists, realizing that a railroad was essential to carry the minerals and ore needed by the factories, quickly raised the money to build the 65-mile (105-km) line, which was built remarkably swiftly thanks to the use of British technology and personnel.

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