'The most striking result produced by the completion of this Railway, is
the sudden and marvellous change which has been effected in our ideas of
time and space. What was quick is now slow; what was distant is now
near.' So wrote Henry Booth of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. The
early railways changed all aspects of life: what people ate (and how
they cooked), what they wore and how they communicated. But what was it
like to travel on the railways in the 1830s and 1840s? This book hopes
to explore the experiences of these pioneer railway travellers, from the
first railway stations and railway carriages to the hazards of the
journey itself.