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All in a Day's Work
At the height of the railway age, more than one million people worked on the Britain's railways. They were employed in a wide range of capacities from porters and labourers, to those who worked on the footplate and in the board room. All of these people were essential to the smooth running of the industry. Drawing upon the extensive archives of the Great Western Railway now housed in Steam: Museum of the Great Western at Swindon, Tim Bryan had written a book which provides a vivid portrait of life as a railway worker during the age of steam, and adds much to our knowledge of the social history of an age well within living memory.
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