Bradshaw’s Railway Manual, Shareholders’ Guide and Directory published by Adams, London and Blacklock, Manchester 1897. In stiff dark cloth-covered boards with the title gold-stamped to the front and spine. Size 19 by 12 cm. 675 pages plus a 40-page index section and contemporary advertising. A directory of the railway companies of the world and a mine of information. Includes folding maps (of Great Britain, Scotland, Ireland, India and Europe). Front board has a gold-stamped panel indicating the book was used in by staff at Euston station. Archival tape repair to reverse of the hinge of two maps. Good to VG condition.