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Railway 200 Then and Now: Pneumatic and even weirder propelled trains

24/03/2025 in Features
1864 - The Pneumatic Railway, Crystal Palace, engraving. Photo public domain.

In the second in our series of extracts from Bradley’s Railway Guide: A Journey Through Two Centuries of British Railway History 1825-2025, we look at Rammell’s Pneumatic Railway - and developments since.

The past: 1864




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