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Bradshaw’s descriptive railway handbookof Great Britain and Ireland, a tourist guide to rail travel and the star of the television series Great British Railway Journey, has been enlarged into this facsimile edition of the original 1861 printing. Produced in 1861 at the time that the railways became essential for tourism as well as infrastructure, this addition to the collection provides a chance to explore what is now common, through the eyes of a nation for whom rail travel was still a novelty of the age. This enlarged facsimile provides a fascinating view of railway travel in the 19th century.