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Book Synopsis Forgotten Railways, Scotland by : John Thomas
Download or read book Forgotten Railways, Scotland written by John Thomas and published by Trafalgar Square Publishing. This book was released on 1981 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Walking Scotland's Lost Railways by : Robin Howie
Download or read book Walking Scotland's Lost Railways written by Robin Howie and published by Whittles. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotland still has hundreds of miles of 'dismantled railways', the term used by Ordnance Survey, and the track beds give scope for many walks. Some track beds have been 'saved' as Tarmacadam walkway/cycleway routes while others have become well-trodden local walks. The remainder range from good, to overgrown, to well-nigh impassable in walking quality. This book provides a handy guide to trackbed walks with detailed information and maps. It is enhanced by numerous black and white old railway photographs, recalling those past days, and by coloured photographs that reflect the post-Beeching changes. The integral hand-crafted maps identify the old railway lines and the sites of stations, most of which are now unrecognisable. The 'Railway Age' is summarised and describes the change from 18th century wagon ways and horse traction to the arrival of steam locomotives c.1830. The fierce rivalry that then ensued between the many competing companies as railway development proceeded at a faster pace is recounted. Although walkers may be unaware of the tangled history of the development of the railway system during the Victorian era, many will have heard of, or experienced, the drastic 1960s cuts of the Beeching axe. However, in more recent times Scotland has experienced a railway revival - principally in the Greater Glasgow area but with new stations and station re-openings elsewhere. The long awaited 30-mile Borders Railway from Edinburgh to Tweedbank, the longest domestic railway to be built in Britain for more than a century, is something on a very different scale. Early passenger numbers have exceeded expectations and towns served by the line have seen significant economic benefits. Many railway enthusiasts cling to the hope that more lines will be reinstated. Meanwhile, those walks offer a fascinating and varied selection of routes that can fill an afternoon, a day or a long weekend - an ideal opportunity to get walking!
Book Synopsis Discovering Scotland's Lost Railways by : Julian Holland
Download or read book Discovering Scotland's Lost Railways written by Julian Holland and published by Waverley Books Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Scotland's Lost Branch Lines: Where Beeching Got It Wrong by : David Spaven
Download or read book Scotland's Lost Branch Lines: Where Beeching Got It Wrong written by David Spaven and published by Origin. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first history of Scotland's railways seen through its branch lines, featuring rarely seen photographic material from the archives of the National Union of Railwaymen.
Book Synopsis Glasgow and Dunbartonshire's Lost Railways by : Gordon Stansfield
Download or read book Glasgow and Dunbartonshire's Lost Railways written by Gordon Stansfield and published by Stenlake Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glasgow is unique among British cities in that it has the largest rail network outside of London, and there was once a time when the city had four very grand stations - Central, Queen Street, St Enoch's and Buchanan Street. Two of these have gone and with them the heyday of the city's railways. Those times are captured for us in this collection of fifty-two photographs, accompanied by a history of each of the city's lines. The neighbouring region of Dunbartonshire is also covered and was itself unique in that Milngavie was the home of one of the world's first monorail systems. Stations featured in the book - many of them long gone - include Cowlairs, Possilpark, Eglinton Street, Buchanan Street, Dalmuir Riverside, Stobcross, Bellahouston, Summerston, Maryhill Central, St Enoch's, Partick West, Cumberland Street, the Singer Terminal (Clydebank), Rutherglen and Strathbungo.
Book Synopsis The Lost Railways of the Scottish Borders by : Gordon Stansfield
Download or read book The Lost Railways of the Scottish Borders written by Gordon Stansfield and published by Stenlake Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the latter part of the nineteenth century most towns along the Scottish Borders had acquired a rail service. Falling passenger numbers led to line closures beginning in the 1930s and continuing until today. This nostalgic collection of photographs illustrates many of the area's lost stations, along with historic rolling stock.
Book Synopsis Exploring Disused Railways in East Scotland by : Michael Mather
Download or read book Exploring Disused Railways in East Scotland written by Michael Mather and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Mather explores eastern Scotland's disused railway lines.
Book Synopsis The Lost Lines of Britain by : Julian Holland
Download or read book The Lost Lines of Britain written by Julian Holland and published by AA Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nostalgic trip along Britain's lost railways. Retracing Britain's lost railway history, this comprehensive book explores many of Britain's more popular routes that have now been converted to footpaths and cycleways.
Book Synopsis Angus & Kincardineshire's Lost Railways by : Gordon Stansfield
Download or read book Angus & Kincardineshire's Lost Railways written by Gordon Stansfield and published by Stenlake Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dundee had one of the earliest railway systems in Scotland (dating from the 1830s), and by the early 1900s could boast a complex network of lines serving virtually every town and village in Angus and Kincardineshire. At date of publication there are just eleven functioning stations left in the two counties, although passengers can take a nostalgic ride on the preserved steam railway between Brechin and the Bridge of Dun. Archival photographs accompanying Gordon Stansfield's informative text include Laurencekirk, Marykirk, Drumlithie, Newtyle, Baldovan and Downfield, Lochee West, Colliston, Leysmill, Crathes, Brechin, West Ferry, Elliot Junction, Lunan Bay, Portlethen, Justinhaugh, Tannadice, Dundee East and West, Edzell, Barnhill, Johnshaven, St Cyrus, Kirriemuir, Forfar, Guthrie, Auldbar Road, Dubton, Hillside and Newtonhill.
Book Synopsis Discovering Britain's Lost Railways by : Paul Atterbury
Download or read book Discovering Britain's Lost Railways written by Paul Atterbury and published by Aa Pub. This book was released on 2009 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by best-selling railway author Paul Atterbury, this updated second edition explores the closed lines of Britain's vanished railway heritage. Paul has uncovered the most interesting of these lines, retraced their routes, explored their relics, and looked back with nostalgia to the days when the railway was an essential part of country life. The text is accompanied by high-quality black and white photographs taken in the heyday of these lines, along with specially commissioned color photography of what remains today. There are also detailed route maps and information panels on recognized footpaths, cycleways, and nearby attractions of interest to railway enthusiasts.
Book Synopsis Ayrshire's Forgotten Railways by : Alasdair Wham
Download or read book Ayrshire's Forgotten Railways written by Alasdair Wham and published by John Donald. This book was released on 2013 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Hidden Ways by : Alistair Moffat
Download or read book The Hidden Ways written by Alistair Moffat and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards In The Hidden Ways, Alistair Moffat traverses the lost paths of Scotland. Down Roman roads tramped by armies, warpaths and pilgrim routes, drove roads and rail roads, turnpikes and sea roads, he traces the arteries through which our nation's lifeblood has flowed in a bid to understand how our history has left its mark upon our landscape. Moffat's travels along the hidden ways reveal not only the searing beauty and magic of the Scottish landscape, but open up a different sort of history, a new way of understanding our past by walking in the footsteps of our ancestors. In retracing the forgotten paths, he charts a powerful, surprising and moving history of Scotland through the unremembered lives who have moved through it.
Book Synopsis The Trains Now Departed by : Michael Williams
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 352 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.
Download or read book Lost Lines written by Nigel Welbourn and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Discovering Scotland's Lost Local Lines by : Julian Holland
Download or read book Discovering Scotland's Lost Local Lines written by Julian Holland and published by Waverley Books Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of Scotland's lost railway heritage is still out there waiting to be discovered. This book opens the door to this secret world for the enthusiast as well as those with an interest in Scotland and its transport.
Download or read book Railways written by Julian Holland and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of British railway facts and stories. The book includes lists of longest tunnels, widest bridges and powerful locomotives, as well as looking at the dismal failure of Brunel's atmospheric railway in South Devon and the rags-to-riches tale of Frank Hornby.
Book Synopsis Lost Railway Lines South of Glasgow by : Alasdair Wham
Download or read book Lost Railway Lines South of Glasgow written by Alasdair Wham and published by . This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: