Overview
Who won in a race between a train and a pigeon?
How can you warn bats to leave a railway tunnel?
Before the era of the car, which railway company carried the most prisoners?
Colin G. Maggs has collected all of these answers – and more! – in Amazing and Curious Railway Tales, a compendium of stories, curiosities and little-known facts about Britain’s railways.
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