The Untold Railway Stories

By: Monisha Rajesh (Editor), Andrew Martin (Contribution by), Shahnaz Habib (Contribution by), Clare Hammond (Contribution by), Mark Ovenden (Contribution by)

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Hardcover | 11 September 2025

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256 Pages

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23.4 x 15.3 x 2.6

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A collection of new writing, little known stories and fresh perspectives on train travel and railway history, to mark the 200th anniversary of passenger rail journeys.

A compendium of fascinating and evocative new writing on railway travel and history. Telling of little known journeys and uncovered histories on railway routes around the world - from the UK, Europe and Africa to North America, the Middle East and Asia.

From Myanmar's highlands to the British Pennines, from slow travel between coffee plantations in Borneo to a cross-continent odyssey on African railways, from the pioneers of the American West to European trains in war, this is a new prism through which to explore human lives, and global landscapes, politics and history.

The Untold Railway Stories is a testament to both the joy and impact of train travel - to the ambition and ingenuity, and also to destruction and sacrifice within its history - and is published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of first passenger railway line.

About the Author

Monisha Rajesh is an author and journalist whose writing has appeared in Time magazine, Vanity Fair, the New York Times, the Guardian, The Sunday Times and the Sunday Telegraph, in which she wrote a monthly column about travelling the world by train.

Her first book Around India in 80 Trains (2012) was named one of the Independent's top ten books on India. Her second book, Around the World in 80 Trains (2019) won the National Geographic Travel Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Award.

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