The Railway Navvies

By Terry Coleman

This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways – the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England.

Preached at and plundered, sworn at and swindled, this anarchic elite endured perils and disasters, and carved out of the English countryside an industrial-age architecture unparalleled in grandeur and audacity since the building of the cathedrals.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Release date: May 21, 2015
• ISBN: 9781784082314

Terry Coleman

Terry Coleman is a historian, novelist, and award-winning reporter. His books include biographies of Olivier, Nelson and the history of British and Irish emigration, PASSAGE TO AMERICA. His novel SOUTHERN CROSS, was a worldwide bestseller.

Reviews for The Railway Navvies

[ericcostello-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Interesting look at the culture and ethos of the workers that, in the main, built the British railway system in the early Victorian era. Good choice of illustrations as well, and pretty even-handed, if slightly repetitive in spots.