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and lastly, I've been reading Fire & Steam, by Christian Wolmar - the author's a grouchy railway historian, but the book's an accessible, normie-friendly look at the railways from the earliest mineral wagonways in the north-east through to the Industrial Revolution and railway mania, two world wars, and the end of the steam era. Its focus is on how the railways changed ... literally everything really. Go read it, it's good.
