Cooke B. The Grand Crimean Central Railway: The Story of the Railway Built by the British in the Crimea During the War of 1854-1856

Knutsford, Cheshire: Cavalier House, 1990. — 176 pgs.Among the less well-known features of the Crimean War is the railway which was built in the Crimea to supply the British Army. References to it are sparse, brief, and sometimes inaccurate. Yet it was an extraordinary undertaking. Nothing reflects the dynamism and confidence which the Industrial Revolution created in this country more than the manner in which it was conceived, constructed and put into successful operation by civilian engineers at a time when the Government and military organization for running the war had completely broken down.