Macdonald’s Tourists’ Guide to Scotland,1925

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A particular feature is the habit of quoting the cost of buildings and structures, where known; for example, the Forth Bridge, for which the cost is noted as having been £3,500,000 (including £800,000 for connecting lines) By the time of publication, the British railways had been brought into four groups, after the ravages of the Great War. However, what was to prove a more substantial threat to their dominance of the travel and tourist market had already arrived – chars-a-banc and motor ‘buses provided the “favourite excursions”.