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Author : Peter Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780860936190
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (361 download)
Download or read book An Illustrated History of the Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway written by Peter Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trains & railways.
Author : Peter Johnson
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1526776200
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway written by Peter Johnson and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway, was one of the lines managed and operated by Colonel Holman Fred Stephens from his office in Salford Terrace in Tonbridge Kent. It was a revival of the long disused Potteries Shrewsbury & North Wales Railway, a railway that went bankrupt shortly after opening in the mid 1860s and was left derelict for forty years. The railway reopened in 1911 to much local rejoicing, however the company was in financial difficulties by the 1920s and withdrew its passenger services in the early 1930s. During the Second World War the army took over the railway, constructing ammunition and stores depots along its entire length. After the war the railway continued to be operated by the army until closed in 1960, when it was handed over to the Western Region of British Railways for demolition. The author has researched the history of this fascinating bucolic railway over many years. In this new book he presents much previously unpublished information and many fascinating insights into the railway’s complicated history.
Author : Geoff Cryer
Publisher : Crowood
ISBN 13 : 1847976921
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (479 download)
Download or read book Shropshire Railways written by Geoff Cryer and published by Crowood. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of four hundred years of railways in Shropshire, from the primitive wagonways of the pre-railway age to the county's current rail network and services. Fully illustrated with almost two hundred monochrome and colour photos, Shropshire Railways is an ideal resource for anyone with an interest in this county with its rich railway history, and home to one of Britain's top heritage railways. Including detailed route maps and a survey of timetables over the years, the book covers the pre-railway age and the coming of the main lines, with the opening of the Shrewsbury and Chester railway in 1848; the 'grouping' of the railway companies from 1923 - the Great Western Railway (GWR) and London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) era in the county; the British Railways period from 1948-1994 - nationalization and modernization, passenger and freight trains, and locomotive sheds; the minor lines, the industrial railways and the heritage railways; privatization and the current main line scene. Illustrated with 205 colour and black & white photographs and maps.
Author : PETER. JOHNSON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781526776174
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (761 download)
Download or read book SHROPSHIRE & MONTGOMERYSHIRE LIGHT RAILWAY written by PETER. JOHNSON and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Johnson
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1399039709
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Tanat Valley Light Railway written by Peter Johnson and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2024-09-30 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated in the Welsh borderland to the West of Oswestry, the scenic Tanat Valley reached westwards into Wales, its Llangynog terminus nestling where the road starts the climb over the Berwyn mountain range towards Bala. It was a lightly populated area that sustained agriculture and some mineral extraction whose residents struggled to get their produce to market. During the 19th Century there were several schemes for a railway that failed due their inability to raise sufficient capital. The Tanat Valley Light Railway is, therefore, a true child of the 1896 Light Railways Act, promoted by the Oswestry Urban District Council the following year to take advantage of the grant-making facilities of that legislation. Because it took so long to obtain powers, and it was not opened until 1906, the Light Railway never really fulfilled its potential. Operated initially by the Cambrian Railways, it was not heavily worked, although it benefited from pipe traffic generated by renewals of Liverpool Corporations Vyrnwy reservoir pipeline. Although closure came in stages during the 1950s, and was deemed to be complete in 1960, a short section of track remains in situ at Porthywaen. Author Peter Johnson has drawn on the material available at the National Archives at Kew and the Parliamentary Archives in the House of Lords as well as conducting extensive research in digitised newspapers to tell the Light Railways story, producing the first in-depth account of its development, operation and closure. Peter Johnson is also the author of The Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway the rise and fall of a rural byway, published by Pen & Sword Transport in 2024. The two railways were connected at Blodwel Junction and the surviving section of the Tanat Valley Light Railway thence to Porthywaen enabled stone traffic on the Shropshire & Montgomeryshires Nantmawr branch to continue until 1971.
Author : Keith Turner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780715382332
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (823 download)
Download or read book The Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway written by Keith Turner and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mike Christensen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781899889549
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (895 download)
Download or read book The Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway written by Mike Christensen and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Railway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (643 download)
Download or read book Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Light Railway 1. Railway Group R.E. written by Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Railway and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leslie Oppitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Light Railway written by Leslie Oppitz and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mike Christensen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780907322658
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (226 download)
Download or read book The Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Light Railway Under Military Control 1941-1960 written by Mike Christensen and published by . This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Light Railway Commissioners
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Light Railway Order, 1909. Order Made by the Light Railway Commissioners, and Modified and Confirmed by the Board of Trade, Authorising the Re-construction and Working as a Light Railway of Certain Parts of the Railways and Works of the Shropshire Railways Company in the Counties of Shropshire and Montgomeryshire written by Great Britain. Light Railway Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Casson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191570419
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The World's First Railway System written by Mark Casson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British railway network was a monument to Victorian private enterprise. Its masterpieces of civil engineering were emulated around the world. But its performance was controversial: praised for promoting a high density of lines, it was also criticised for wasteful duplication of routes. This is the first history of the British railway system written from a modern economic perspective. It uses conterfactual analysis to construct an alternaive network to represent the most efficient alternative rail network that could have been constructed given what was known at the time - the first time this has been done. It reveals how weaknesses in regulation and defects in government policy resulted in enormous inefficiency in the Victorian system that Britain lives with today. British railway companies developed into powerful regional monopolies, which then contested each other's territories. When denied access to existing lines in rival territories, they built duplicate lines instead. Plans for an integrated national system, sponsored by William Gladstone, were blocked by Members of Parliament because of a perceived conflict with the local interests they represented. Each town wanted more railways than its neighbours, and so too many lines were built. The costs of these surplus lines led ultimately to higher fares and freight charges, which impaired the performance of the economy. The book will be the definitive source of reference for those interested in the economic history of the British railway system. It makes use of a major new historical source, deposited railway plans, integrates transport and local history through its regional analysis of the railway system, and provides a comprehensive, classified bibliography.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Railway Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Williams
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409052346
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Trains Now Departed written by Michael Williams and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOMETIMES you come across a lofty railway viaduct, marooned in the middle of a remote country landscape. Or a crumbling platform from some once-bustling junction buried under the buddleia. If you are lucky you might be able to follow some rusting tracks, or explore an old tunnel leading to...well, who knows where? Listen hard. Is that the wind in the undergrowth? Or the spectre of a train from a golden era of the past panting up the embankment? These are the ghosts of The Trains Now Departed. They are the railway lines, and services that ran on them that have disappeared and gone forever. Our lost legacy includes lines prematurely axed, often with a gripping and colourful tale of their own, as well as marvels of locomotive engineering sent to the scrapyard, and grand termini felled by the wrecker's ball. Then there are the lost delights of train travel, such as haute cuisine in the dining car, the grand expresses with their evocative names, and continental boat trains to romantic far-off places. The Trains Now Departed tells the stories of some of the most fascinating lost trains of Britain, vividly evoking the glories of a bygone age. In his personal odyssey around Britain Michael Williams tells the tales of the pioneers who built the tracks, the yarns of the men and women who operated them and the colourful trains that ran on them. It is a journey into the soul of our railways, summoning up a magic which, although mired in time, is fortunately not lost for ever. THIS EDITION REVISED AND UPDATED TO INCLUDE MAPS.
Author : Eric S. Tonks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781901556506
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (565 download)
Download or read book The Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway written by Eric S. Tonks and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No further information has been provided for this title.
Author : Roger S. Carpenter
Publisher : Wild Swan Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780906867914
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (679 download)
Download or read book The Criggion Branch of the Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway written by Roger S. Carpenter and published by Wild Swan Publications. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1922 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
