Bradshaw’s Handbook: 1861 railway handbook of Great Britain and Ireland - Tapa dura

Born in Pendleton, near Salford, in Lancashire, on 29 July 1801, George Bradshaw began his career working for J Beale, a Manchester engraver. An accomplished cartographer and his first work, a map of his native county, was published in 1827. His Bradshaw’s Monthly Railway Guide was published in 1841 and he soon became a household name throughout the land. His printing house, Bradshaw & Blacklock, became internationally renowned for its maps, guides, books and the Manchester Journal.

Bradshaw’s descriptive railway handbook of Great Britain and Ireland. Enlarged facsimile edition of an original 1861 printing.

Bradshaw’s original tourist guide to rail travel, the star of the television series Great British Railway Journey. 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 nineteenth century.