An enlarged facsimile edition of Bradshaw's descriptive railway handbook of Europe originally published in 1853. An enlarged facsimile edition of Bradshaw's descriptive railway handbook of Europe originally published in 1853. Bradshaw's original tourist guide to rail travel is the star of the BBC's television series 'Great Continental Railway Journeys' as used by Michael Portillo. The original Bradshaws book was produced in 1853, at the time that the railways became essential for tourism as well as infrastructure. This new larger format facsimile edition gives you the chance to explore what is now common through the eyes of a continent for whom rail travel was still a novelty of the age, and provides a fascinating view of railway travel in the nineteenth century.