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Book Synopsis The Life and Times of a Duke by : Martyn J. McGinty
Download or read book The Life and Times of a Duke written by Martyn J. McGinty and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a quarter-century struggle to rebuild from scrap condition a unique locomotive, it being an essential part of the British engineering heritage. It covers the unusual and efficient Caprotti valve gear in depth and solves the mystery of why the locomotive did not work properly in service. It was never improved until it was restored and its secrets revealed with a surprising conclusion.
Author :William Stanley Hoole Publisher :University, Ala., University of Alabama Press [1973] ISBN 13 : Total Pages :360 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis According to Hoole by : William Stanley Hoole
Download or read book According to Hoole written by William Stanley Hoole and published by University, Ala., University of Alabama Press [1973]. This book was released on 1973 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Life on the Lines by : R H N Hardy
Download or read book A Life on the Lines written by R H N Hardy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During much of his early career, from 1944 through to the early 1960s, Richard Hardy took hundreds of pictures of life on the railways and the men he knew and worked with on a daily basis, using his trusty Brownie 620 box camera. These unique and largely unpublished images form a fascinating and hugely evocative portrayal of the height of the steam era, during the age of the 'Big Four', and after 1947 on the sprawling nationalised network known as British Railways. Many of the pictures capture the railways in wartime, providing a valuable social record of the nation at war. In addition there is a sequence of rare photographs of French engines, railways and railwaymen, which offer a superb contrast to the British rail network (it quickly becomes evident that whereas the British rail system ran on tea, the French system ran on wine). Great characters are the unifying theme of the pictures, and they include famous figures associated with the railways, such as the poet John Betjeman. This lavishly illustrated book sets Richard's personal photographs and text alongside a carefully collated selection of ephemera, artworks and photographs drawn from the National Railway Museum in York. Collectively these images and artefacts tell the stories of the great brotherhood of railwaymen.
Book Synopsis Secular World and Social Economist by : George Jacob Holyoake
Download or read book Secular World and Social Economist written by George Jacob Holyoake and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The History of the Fleet Street House": 20 p. at the end of v. 18.
Book Synopsis History of the East Coast Main Line by : Robin Jones
Download or read book History of the East Coast Main Line written by Robin Jones and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the mid-nineteenth century the East Coast Main Line has been one of the major routes from London to northern England and to Scotland. It has seen some of the greatest achievements in the railways, most notably the 'Flying Scotsman' becoming, in 1934, the first locomotive in the world to exceed 100mph and the 'Mallard' in 1938 claiming the as-yet-unbroken world speed record for steam locomotives of 126mph. The East Coast Main Line not only made history by facilitating an ever-faster link between two capital cities, it also provided an international stage for Britain's engineering marvels, inspiring many generations of schoolboys and adults alike. That was to continue after the end of the steam era on British Railways, with diesel and then electric traction setting a series of new records over the route. This new book looks at how the London-Edinburgh line became the world's fastest steam railway and how its proud and unique heritage is appreciated and celebrated today more than ever before. Superbly illustrated with over 300 colour and black & white photographs.
Book Synopsis Descendants of James and Jane Hoole by : Wendy Eileen Hoole
Download or read book Descendants of James and Jane Hoole written by Wendy Eileen Hoole and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Respectable Radicals by : David Howell
Download or read book Respectable Radicals written by David Howell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railway workers were a uniformed and respectable section of the Victorian and Edwardian working class. They built their trade unions in the face of employer hostility and their organisations played a crucial role in the construction of effective labour politics. Local political organisations owed much to the patience and creativity of railway workers, not least in small towns and country districts. Respectable Radicals uses rich archival sources to analyse this history through a series of case studies. It focuses, among other topics, on disasters, strikes, the modernisation policies of companies, inter-union rivalries and the promises and frustrations of labour politics. A dominant theme is the complex relationship between changing experiences of work, shifting trade union strategies and political identities. The result is a new perspective on a significant sector of trade unionism and on the character of labour politics from the 1890s to the 1950s.
Book Synopsis Local and Personal Laws by : Great Britain
Download or read book Local and Personal Laws written by Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mallard written by Don Hale and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just over eighty years ago on the East Coast main line, the streamlined A4 Pacific locomotive Mallard reached a top speed of 126mph – a world record for steam locomotives that still stands. Since then, millions have seen this famous locomotive, resplendent in her blue livery, on display at the National Railway Museum in York. Here, Don Hale tells the full story of how the record was broken: from the nineteenth-century London–Scotland speed race and, surprisingly, traces Mallard's futuristic design back to the Bugatti car and the influence of Germany's nascent Third Reich, which propelled the train into an instrument of national prestige. He also celebrates Mallard's designer, Sir Nigel Gresley, one of Britain's most gifted engineers. Mallard is a wonderful tribute to one of British technology's finest hours.
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Download or read book Reasoner and Theological Examiner written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Law Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Work Identity at the End of the Line? by : T. Strangleman
Download or read book Work Identity at the End of the Line? written by T. Strangleman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-05-21 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Work Identity at the End of the Line? tells the story of workplace culture and identity in the railway industry before during and after privatization in the mid-1990s. It combines rich interview material from workers and managers involved in the privatisation process with a fascinating background detail of nationalization. The book will be of interest to sociologists, cultural and economic historians as well as those studying culture change in business. Work Identity at the End of the Line? has been shortlisted for the British Sociological Association's Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2005. It is one of only four titles to be shortlisted.
Book Synopsis I Tried to Run a Railway by : Gerard Fiennes
Download or read book I Tried to Run a Railway written by Gerard Fiennes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'BR rebel chairman resigns' The Guardian. 'Rebel rail chief in row' Daily Mail. 'I don't take it back says sacked rail chief' Daily Express. This is the notorious book that got Gerard Fiennes sacked from British Railways while he was Chairman and General Manager of the Eastern Region in 1968. Fiennes became a railwayman by accident, joining the L.N.E.R as a Traffic Apprentice in 1928. Over the next four decades he worked himself up to the top of management tree, experiencing all facets of railway life – steam through diesel to electrification – on his way to the top. When he got there, he knew the service was ripe for a revolution... and he believed he was the man to lead it. But of course, it was the wrong time for a manager who thought that railways could be a success – Dr. Beeching was sharpening his axe and unprofitable lines were closed rather than turned round. After being resisted, circumvented, delayed and blocked, G. F. Fiennes ran out of patience and put pen to paper and ran his career into the buffers as he told the story of what happens when non-railwaymen tried to run the railway.
Book Synopsis A Steam Engine Pilgrimage by : Anthony Burton
Download or read book A Steam Engine Pilgrimage written by Anthony Burton and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Burton has traveled from the Highlands of Scotland, to the south west of England in pursuit of his passion for the steam engine in all its different forms. He has traveled on narrow gauge railways in Wales and enjoyed the splendor of main line journeys behind some of the grandest locomotives ever built. He has shoveled coal into the boiler of an old Clyde Puffer, while steaming down Scotlands west coast, and luxuriated in the elegance of a Windermere steam launch. He has marveled at the magnificence of the great Victorian pumping engines and their elaborately decorated engine houses and spends time every year helping to oil and polish an old mill engine to get it ready to receive visitors. He has reveled in the fun of the steam fair and shared a ride in a replica of Richard Trevithicks extraordinary steam carriage with a direct descendant of the great engineer.All these experiences and more are brought together in this lively narrative, in which the author shares his own sense of excitement and places each visit within its historical context. Above all, this book is a tribute to all those anonymous volunteers whose hard work and dedication have kept this great tradition alive.
Book Synopsis A Documentary History of Chelsea by : Mellen Chamberlain
Download or read book A Documentary History of Chelsea written by Mellen Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Twilight of Southern Steam by : Don Benn
Download or read book The Twilight of Southern Steam written by Don Benn and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is first and foremost the story of the enginemen and their steeds which brought the steam era to an end on the Southern. It is therefore primarily about locomotive performance but enlivened by stories about how that was achieved and also about the band of young men who followed the exploits of men and machines, day and night over those last two years. It includes a substantial contribution from an ex-Nine Elms fireman and many anecdotes about the enginemen. The book contains about eighty train running logs plus records of lineside observations, detailed descriptions of the work covered by the locomotives and crews from the various steam motive power depots, copies of the actual duty rosters posted at Nine Elms, together with a unique collection of about 150 black and white and color images taken in the 1965 to 1967 period covered by this book. It is the most comprehensive story of those last few years yet produced, and it is truly The Untold Story, a fine tribute to the enginemen who performed near miracles with their doomed and run-down fleet of locomotives, in the very different world of the mid–1960's railway, unequaled anywhere else in Britain.
Book Synopsis The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster by : Edward Baines
Download or read book The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster written by Edward Baines and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
