The Untold Railway Stories

Monisha Rajesh

• 11 september 2025
• 9780715656082

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A collection of vivid new writing uncovering little-known railway journeys and hidden histories across the world - from the UK and Europe to Africa, Asia and the Americas. From Myanmar to Borneo and the American West, these stories reveal how railways shaped landscapes, politics and lives, celebrating both their joy and their cost.

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 first passenger railway line.