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There has always been a romance around ocean liners, but this book looks behind the romance to show the reality of travelling the oceans of ...
Thomas Telford's life was extraordinary: born in the Lowlands of Scotland, where his father worked as a shepherd, he ended his days as the ...
The big railway companies had famous locomotive works such as Crewe and Swindon, but this is the story of the very many other companies, who ...
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