The text for this edition remains substantially unchanged apart from correcting errors that slipped through in the first edition. The big difference is the great increase in the number of illustrations which will, I hope, give the reader a broader picture of the efforts and achievements of all those who left Britain to travel the world building railways. The text is mainly concerned with civil engineering, but some of the extra illustrations have been selected to show the huge range of locomotives provided by British companies for railways overseas.
Anthony Burton
Stroud, 2017