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Author : George Measom
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The official illustrated guide to the Great western railway written by George Measom and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Maidment
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 178383109X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (838 download)
Download or read book The Great Western Eight Coupled Heavy Freight Locomotives written by David Maidment and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Western Eight-Coupled Heavy Freight Locomotives' is the first of a series of 'Locomotive Profiles' to be published by Pen & Sword. It will describe the conception, design, building and operation of the fleet of powerful locomotives built in the first half of the twentieth century to meet the demands of the growing South Wales coal and steel industries and the West Midlands area served by the Great Western Railway. Whilst concentrating mainly on the standard designs of the great locomotive engineer, George Jackson Churchward, the 28XX and 47XX 2-8-0 locomotives, it will also cover the 2-8-0 and 2-8-2 tank engines designed for the South Wales Valleys mining areas and coal exports through Newport, Cardiff, Barry and Swansea Docks, and other 2-8-0 locomotives acquired by the Great Western to cope with the increased industrial needs during both world wars - the RODs, Swindon built 8Fs, WDs and American S160s. It will also cover the earliest designs of the Barry and Port Talbot Railways intended to cope with the valley coal traffic. The book will be copiously illustrated with 150 black and white and 50 coloured photographs and is a comprehensive record of some outstanding freight locomotives, many of the oldest engines still operating to the end of steam on British Railways in the mid 1960s, sixty years after they were designed."
Author : David Maidment
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1399022571
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Four-Coupled Tank Locomotive Classes Built by the Great Western Railway written by David Maidment and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive history of all twenty-six classes of four coupled tank engines commissioned by the Great Western Railway or built at their Wolverhampton and Swindon Works, from the Broad Gauge 2-4-0 and 4-4-0 tanks of the 1840s and 1850s to the well known Collett 0-4-2 branch line engines of classes 48XX (later renumbered 14XX) and 58XX of the 1930s. As well as the Broad Gauge engines, the strange looking ‘Covertibles’ of William Dean, a number of experimental ‘one-off’ designs, the numerous Wolverhampton 0-4-2Ts of the ‘517’ class and the Swindon built ‘2-4-0 ‘Metro Tanks’ are described with – where known – their allocation and operation. The book includes twenty weight diagrams and nearly 300 photographs, over 50 in color. The four-coupled tank engines absorbed by the Great Western from other companies at or before 1923 will be featured in a separate volume to follow.
Author : Emma Smith
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408840197
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Great Western Beach written by Emma Smith and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ______________ 'Emma Smith has written a book that should - and I hope does - endure as a classic among memoirs of childhood. I savoured every page' - Miranda Seymour, Evening Standard 'A wonderful book, full of unexpected effects, and I suspect that it will become a classic of the genre ... so sincerely compassionate that I honestly can't read it without weeping' - Lynne Truss, Sunday Times 'Evocative, witty and profoundly moving' - Daily Telegraph 'Deserves to become an overnight classic and to find a home at holiday cottage bedsides from St. Ives to Great Yarmouth' - Patrick Gale, author of Notes on an Exhibition ______________ The Great Western Beach is Emma Smith's wonderfully atmospheric memoir of a 1920s childhood in Newquay, Cornwall. She recalls the rocks, the sea, the beaches, the picnics, the teas and pasties, the bracing walks, the tennis tournaments and bathing parties, the curious residents and fascinating holiday-makers - relishing every glorious, salty detail. But above all this is a portrait of a family from the astonishingly clear-eyed perspective of a nine-year-old girl: her furious, frustrated father, perpetually on his way to becoming a world famous artist but suffering the indignity of being a lowly bank clerk; her beautiful, unperceptive mother, made for better things perhaps but at least, with three fiancés killed in the Great War, married with children at last; the twins, fearless, defiant Pam and sickly, bewildered Jim, for whom life is always an uphill climb, and baby Harvey, brought on the same winds of change that mean that life, with all its complication and wonder, cannot stay still and the Cornish playground of Emma's childhood will one day be lost forever.
Author : Laurence Waters
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1526707055
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Great Western: Railway Gallery written by Laurence Waters and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It could be argued that the great Western or 'Gods' Wonderful Railway' was for many years the most famous railway in England. Much of the railway that we see today was the work of one of the greatest engineers of his time, Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The company was also served by locomotive engineers such as Gooch, Armstrong, Churchward, Collett and Hawksworth, who produced a series of locomotives that were well designed, elegant and powerful.Serving many holiday resorts of the south west, with trains such as 'The Cornish Riviera Express,' the publicity department exploited to great effect that the 'Great Western' was the 'Holiday Line.' It is probably true to say that in the years before the Second World War the company was producing some of the most effective publicity material in England.Using previously unpublished material from the extensive 'Great Western Trust' collection at Didcot Railway Centre, the book illustrates in both black and white and color many facets that made the Great Western 'Great"
Author : Great western railway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The official guide to the Great western railway written by Great western railway and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George S. Measom
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Official Illustrated Guide to the Midland Great Western, and Dublin and Drogheda Railways written by George S. Measom and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amyas Crump
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909328662
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (286 download)
Download or read book Great Western Railway Architecture written by Amyas Crump and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Railway Correspondence and Travel Society
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Locomotives of the Great Western Railway written by Railway Correspondence and Travel Society and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Railway Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Maidment
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1399054724
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Great Western, 0-6-0 Tender Goods Locomotive Classes written by David Maidment and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive history of all the 0-6-0 tender locomotives built by the Great Western Railway or by railways absorbed by the GWR from the very earliest broad gauge engines designed by Daniel Gooch to the Collett 2251 class of the 1930s some of which were still under construction at nationalisation. It includes the Joseph Armstrong ‘Standard Goods’ and the famous Dean Goods, many of which served overseas in the two world wars. The text of 40,000 words describes the design, construction and operation of eight GW and five ‘Absorbed’ broad gauge classes, and thirteen GW and thirteen ‘Absorbed’ standard gauge classes. The book has over 250 black and white and 30 color photos, weight diagrams and drawings.
Author : David Maidment
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473869315
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Great Western: Moguls and Prairies written by David Maidment and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Traces the bloodline of its 2-6-0 and 2-6-2T classes . . . a comprehensive history of the classes from Churchward to BR days, with excellent photographs.” —Steam Railway Great Western Moguls & Prairies is a volume in Pen & Swords series, Locomotive Profiles. It describes the conception, design, building and operation of the fleet of Prairie 2-6-2 tank engines and the Mogul 2-6-0s designed by Churchward in the early part of the twentieth century and perpetuated by his successor, Charles Collett, in the 1920s and 1930s. These engines formed the backbone of the GWR locomotive fleet for secondary passenger and freight work for over half a century and were some of those that remained to the end of steam traction on the Western Region of British Railways. The book also covers some of the lesser known Moguls developed in the Dean/Churchward transition at the end of the nineteenth century and briefly looks at the Mogul and Prairie designs proposed by Churchward, Collett and Hawksworth but were never built. The book is copiously illustrated with over 250 black and white and 60 colored photographs and is a comprehensive record of a group of locomotives found throughout the Great Western and its successor, the Western Region, for over fifty years. “Lavishly illustrated in both colour and black and white, with pictures from the archive and the modern day, there is much here both for the beginner and the seasoned enthusiast, with the book presenting a structured and fresh view of a popular subject.” —Railway Magazine
Author : Andrew Martin
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1782830251
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Belles and Whistles written by Andrew Martin and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the heroic days of rail travel, you could dine on kippers and champagne aboard the Brighton Belle; smoke a post-prandial cigar as the Golden Arrow closed in on Paris, or be shaved by the Flying Scotsman's on-board barber. Everyone from schoolboys to socialites knew of these glamorous 'named trains' and aspired to ride aboard them. In Belles and Whistles, Andrew Martin recreates these famous train journeys by travelling aboard their nearest modern day equivalents. Sometimes their names have survived, even if only as a footnote on a timetable leaflet, but what has usually - if not always - disappeared is the extravagance and luxury. As Martin explains how we got from there to here, evocations of the Golden Age contrast with the starker modern reality: from monogrammed cutlery to stirring sticks, from silence on trains to tannoy announcements, from compartments to airline seating. For those who wonder whatever happened to porters, dining cars, mellow lighting, timetables, luggage in advance, trunk murders, the answers are all here. Martin's five journeys add up to an idiosyncratic history of Britain's railways, combining humour, historical anecdote and reportage from the present and romantic evocations of the past.
Author : David Maidment
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1399095374
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Great Western Castle Class 4-6-0 Locomotives - The Final Years 1960- 1965 written by David Maidment and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author’s second volume about the Great Western’s classic express locomotives covers their final six years in British Railways service. In 1960 the Castles, many now modernized with double chimneys and 4-row superheaters, were still in charge of most of the Western Region’s expresses, but by the summer of 1963 their regular express work was limited to the London – Worcester route. Their declining numbers in the last couple of years covered special summer and relief trains, parcels and freight work, deputizing for failed or unavailable diesels and a flurry of excursions and railtours where their prowess could still be demonstrated. The author worked and lived alongside them in these years and the book includes much of his own personal experience on the footplate, on their trains and on shed. The book recaps briefly their first 25 years and covers their history, operation and performance in their final years and is copiously illustrated including over 100 color photographs.
Author : David Wright
Publisher : The Crowood Press
ISBN 13 : 178500168X
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Modelling Ports and Inland Waterways written by David Wright and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide ranging and informative book, which is brimming with practical advice, is aimed at all those who wish to create authentic models of ports, canals, quays, wharfs and their associated railway infrastructure. Topics covered in this new book include the history of ports and inland waterways, and the important role played by the railways in facilitating their operation; layout plans and ideas, all based on prototypes, that are aimed specifically at the scratch builder; a selection of modelling projects are included with dioramas of both a canal wharf and two different estuary ports, supported by nearly 400 hundred step-by-step colour photographs, drawings and track plans. Finally, it covers the modelling and painting techniques that can be used to create realistic-looking water and how models can be made more convincing and brought to life by the addition of appropriate colouring and weathering. This practical guide is aimed at railway modellers of all abilities, and will also be of interest to modellers in general. Beautifully illustrated with 394 colour step-by-step photographs, drawings and track plans.
Author : David Maidment
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1399095331
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Great Western Castle Class 4-6-0 Locomotives, 1923–1959 written by David Maidment and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Western Castles were one of the most successful locomotive designs of the twentieth century in terms of both performance and efficiency. Designed by Charles Collett in 1923, based on the 1907 Churchward ‘Star’ class, 155 were constructed almost continuously, apart from the war years, between 1923 and 1950, in addition to fifteen rebuilt ‘Stars’ and one rebuilt from the Great Bear pacific. Many were modernised with increased superheat and double-chimneys in the late 1950s and the class continued to be the mainstay of all Western Region express passenger services to the West Country, South Wales, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and the West Midlands until replaced by the WR diesel hydraulic fleet in the early 1960s. This book covers their design in a chapter written by Bob Meanley, who masterminded the restoration at Tyseley Works of the Castles Earl of Mount Edgcumbe and Clun Castle, and their history, operation and performance from the high speed of the 1930s through to their rejuvenation in the 1950s, leaving experience of their last years and preservation to another volume. David Maidment had close experience of the class when working at Old Oak Common between 1957 and 1962 and includes his personal experiences there and on the road from his first encounter with one as a six-year old boy. The book includes 350 photographs, some 40 in color, and 23 detailed Swindon technical drawings.
Author : Great Western Railway (Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Report of the Directors of the Great Western Railway Company to the Proprietors written by Great Western Railway (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
