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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Plus. No date (c 1928). 192pp, colour frontis: The Flying Scotsman, four coloured plates, 8pp of photogravure plates (one has some foxing in the margin), text-ills. Previous owner's gift notation dated 1931. Pictorial front board, illustrated lilac-coloured cloth spine and rear cover in RARE dust-jacket which is worn at the front flap fold with minor loss at corners but lacks a section 15 x 40mm, including the word Collins' of the title, at the spine head. The book includes a sketch of the early stage coach days from Charles Dickens' Sketches by Boz. There are articles on The Twentieth Century Limited (NY Central Railroad); railway timetables; post offices on wheels; foggers; British Railway Steamships; American locomotives; building a modern locomotive; the Rocket [George and Robert Stephenson and Henry Booth]; railway engineering in the Swiss Alps; railway 'cops'; the railways of India; riding with an express engine-driver; and curious railway carriages. Size: 4to.
