Most research and writing on railway history has been undertaken in a way that disconnects it from the wider cultural milieu. Authors have been very effective a

The ubiquitous railway as a symbol of the tensions of Indian modernity.

Railway expansion was symbolic of modernization in the late 19th century, and Britain, Germany and France built railways at enormous speed and reaped great comm

The 19th-century steam railway epitomized modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of the train. Why, for example,

The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern society. But this was not