I'm interested in the scientist Raphael Weldon who travelled repeatedly from
Camridge and Oxford to Naples in the period 1882-1904: any ideas as to how
long this would have taken and what it would have cost? (Other times he went
by sea - would this have taken longer?)
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JOHN BIBBY
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Sent: 08 September 2008 22:58
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Subject: Re: European Railway Timetables
niall ferguson wrote:
> I've been approached by an author doing a biography of Lenin up until
> the Finland Station arrival in Petrograd in 1917.
>
> //Does anyone have, or know of someone who has //a specialist//
> knowledge of the European rail system in the 1900s .I want to try and
> get some detail on the costs, time involved, conditions etc of all those
> long train journeys Lenin had to make - probably on hard seats in third
> class.
This won't be of much use to the enquirer but may be of general interest
to the list. It's an e-book about Lenin's exile in Switzerland and his
return to Russia aboard the "Sealed Train":
<http://www.yamaguchy.netfirms.com/7897401/pearson/pearson_index.html>
("The Sealed Train" by Michael Pearson; New York: Putnam, [1975]; ISBN
0399112626)
Chapter 5 goes into some detail about the train or rather carriage that
conveyed Vladimir Ilyich and party:
<http://www.yamaguchy.netfirms.com/7897401/pearson/pearson_05.html>.
Several useful historical sources are quoted in footnotes.
A good source of information for railways at the eastern end of Europe
is the "5-feet" Yahoo! group, to which I will cross-post the original
request: <http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/5feet/>.
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Neil Worthington, Urmston, UK
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