The Second Age of Rail: A History of High Speed Trains by Murray Hughes
The Second Age of Rail: A History of High Speed Trains

Murray Hughes

The Second Age of Rail: A History of High Speed Trains

Murray Hughes

192 pages first pub 2015 (view editions)

nonfiction informative medium-paced
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Speed on steel wheels has fascinated engineers for nearly two centuries. When a team of French experts accelerated a train up to 574.8 km/h in April 2007 they proved that the rail speed frontier was still unknown. Japan and France pioneered high-s...

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