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Book Synopsis Britain's Lost Railways by : John Minnis
Download or read book Britain's Lost Railways written by John Minnis and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beautifully restored St Pancras Station is a magisterial example of Britain’s finest Victorian architecture. Like the viaducts at Belah and Crumlin, cathedral-like stations such as Nottingham Victoria and spectacular railway hotels like Glasgow St Enoch's, it stands proud as testament to Britain's architectural heritage. In this stunning book, John Minnis reveals Britain's finest railway architecture. From the most cavernous engine sheds, like Old Oak Common, through the eccentric country halts on the Tollesbury line and the gantries of the Liverpool Overhead Railway, to the soaring viaducts of Belah and Cumlin, Britain’s Lost Railways offers a sweeping celebration of our railway heritage. The selection of images and the removable facsimile memorabilia, including tickets, posters, timetables and maps, allows the reader to step into that past, serving as a testimony to an age of ingenuity and ambition when the pride we invested in our railways was reflected in the grandeur of the architecture we built for them.
Book Synopsis Lost Railways of Leicestershire and Rutland by : Geoffrey Kingscott
Download or read book Lost Railways of Leicestershire and Rutland written by Geoffrey Kingscott and published by Countryside Books (GB). This book was released on 2006-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented in an illustrated format, this book traces the history of the area's railway lines from their opening in the 19th century and, in many cases, their closure in the 20th century.
Book Synopsis Lost Railways of Lancashire by : Gordon Suggitt
Download or read book Lost Railways of Lancashire written by Gordon Suggitt and published by Countryside Books (GB). This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the county's railway lines from their opening in the 19th century, their heyday around the turn of the century and, in many cases, their closure in the 20th century.
Book Synopsis Lost Railway Journeys from Around the World by : Anthony Lambert
Download or read book Lost Railway Journeys from Around the World written by Anthony Lambert and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the great cathedral-like railways stations of the steam age to obscure lines built through spectacular landscapes to open up countries before the advent of motorised road transport, this book is a celebration of our lost railway heritage and the lines that can no longer be travelled. Through stunning images, Lost Railway Journeys from Around the World evokes the romance and drama of these journeys, taking the reader as close as they can possibly get to this lost world of dining cars, sleeping cars, station porters and international rail travel. Organised by continent, all of these routes have stories to tell and the lost journeys are captured in the old postcards and posters that accompany photographs drawn from collections and archives across the world.
Book Synopsis Lost Railways of Derbyshire by : Geoffrey Kingscott
Download or read book Lost Railways of Derbyshire written by Geoffrey Kingscott and published by Countryside Books (GB). This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the railway lines in the county including branches of the Great Central Railway and Ashover Light Railway, from their opening in the mid 19th century and, in many cases, their closure in the 20th century. This book describes the reasons for their construction and for their subsequent closure. It also includes illustrations.
Book Synopsis Disused Railways in the Countryside of England and Wales by : James Henry Appleton
Download or read book Disused Railways in the Countryside of England and Wales written by James Henry Appleton and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This item is only available from the Stationery Office's On-Demand service (February 2001)
Book Synopsis Railways of Leicestershire in the Twenty-first Century by : John Jackson
Download or read book Railways of Leicestershire in the Twenty-first Century written by John Jackson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at the contemporary rail scene of the county of Leicestershire. Looking at the variety of traffic at work on the county’s main lines.
Book Synopsis Lost Railways of Herefordshire and Worcestershire by : Leslie Oppitz
Download or read book Lost Railways of Herefordshire and Worcestershire written by Leslie Oppitz and published by Countryside Books (GB). This book was released on 2002 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the railways in these two counties from their opening in the mid-19th century and, in many cases, their closure in the 20th.
Book Synopsis Nichols' Lost Leicestershire by : Stephen Butt
Download or read book Nichols' Lost Leicestershire written by Stephen Butt and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at how John Nichols’ Leicestershire has changed and developed over the years.
Book Synopsis A Lost Frontier Revealed by : Alan Fox
Download or read book A Lost Frontier Revealed written by Alan Fox and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A traveller through the length and breadth of England is soon aware of cultural differences, some of which are clearly visible in the landscape. The eminent English historian Charles Phythian-Adams has put forth that England, through much of the last millennium, could be divided into regional societies, which broadly coincided with groups of pre-1974 counties. These shire assemblages in turn lay largely within the major river drainage systems of the country. In this unusual study Alan Fox tests for, and establishes, the presence of an informal frontier between two of the proposed societies astride the Leicestershire-Lincolnshire border, which lies on the watershed between the Trent and Witham drainage basins. The evidence presented suggests a strong case for a cultural frontier zone, which is announced by a largely empty landscape astride the border between the contrasting settlement patterns of these neighbouring counties.
Book Synopsis The Fifth Leicestershire by : John David Hills
Download or read book The Fifth Leicestershire written by John David Hills and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Fifth Leicestershire" (A Record Of The 1/5th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment, T.F., During The War, 1914-1919) by John David Hills. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Book Synopsis Life on the Leicester Line by : Anthony Gregory
Download or read book Life on the Leicester Line written by Anthony Gregory and published by Twayne Publishers. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Little Book of Leicestershire by : Natasha Sheldon
Download or read book The Little Book of Leicestershire written by Natasha Sheldon and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little Book of Leicestershire is a compendium full of information which will make you say, 'I never knew that!' Contained within is a plethora of entertaining facts about Leicestershire's famous and occasionally infamous men and women, its literary, artistic and sporting achievements, customs ancient and modern, transport, battles and ghostly appearances. A reliable reference book and a quirky guide, this can be dipped in to time and time again to reveal something new about the people, the heritage, the secrets and the enduring fascination of the county. A remarkably engaging little book, this is essential reading for visitors and locals alike.
Book Synopsis The Early History of Railway Tunnels by : Hubert Pragnell
Download or read book The Early History of Railway Tunnels written by Hubert Pragnell and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2024-08-30 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the early railway traveller, the prospect of travelling to places in hours rather than days hitherto was an inviting prospect, however a journey was not without its fears as well as excitement. To some, the prospect of travelling through a tunnel without carriage lighting, with smoke permeating the compartment and the confined noise was a horror of the new age. What might happen if we broke down or crashed into another train in the darkness? To others it was exciting, with the light from the footplate flickering against the tunnel walls or spotting the occasional glimpses of light from a ventilation shaft. To the directors of early railway companies, planning a route was governed by expense and the most direct way. Avoiding hills could add miles but tunnelling through them could involve vast expense as the Great Western Railway found at Box and the London and Birmingham at Kilsby. Creating a cutting as an alternative was also costly not only in labour and time, but also in compensation for landowners, who opposed railways on visual and social grounds having seen their land divided by canals. Construction involved millions of bricks or blocks of stone for sufficiently thick walls to withstand collapse. However, the entrance barely seen from the carriage window might be an impressive Italianate arch as at Primrose Hill, or a castellated portal worthy of the Middle Ages as at Bramhope. This book sets out to tell the story of tunnelling in Britain up to about 1870, when it was a question of burrowing through earth and rock with spade and explosive powder, with the constant danger of collapse or flooding leading to injury and death. It uses contemporary accounts, from the dangers of railway travel by Dickens to the excitement of being drawn through the Liverpool Wapping Tunnel by the young composer Mendelssoln. It includes descriptions from early railway company guide books, newspapers and diaries. It also includes numerous photographs and colored architectural elevations from railway archives.
Book Synopsis History of the 1st & 2nd Battalions, the Leicestershire Regiment, in the Great War by : Harold Carmichael Wylly
Download or read book History of the 1st & 2nd Battalions, the Leicestershire Regiment, in the Great War written by Harold Carmichael Wylly and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Fifth Leicestershire by : John David Hills
Download or read book The Fifth Leicestershire written by John David Hills and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Historical Geography of Railways in Great Britain and Ireland by : David Turnock
Download or read book An Historical Geography of Railways in Great Britain and Ireland written by David Turnock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although a great deal has been published on the economic, social and engineering history of nineteenth-century railways, the work of historical geographers has been much less conspicuous. This overview by David Turnock goes a long way towards restoring the balance. It details every important aspect of the railway’s influence on spatial distribution of economic and social change, providing a full account of the nineteenth-century geography of the British Isles seen in the context of the railway. The book reviews and explains the shape of the developing railway network, beginning with the pre-steam railways and connections between existing road and water communications and the new rail lines. The author also discusses the impact of the railways on the patterns of industrial, urban and rural change throughout the century. Throughout, the historical geography of Ireland is treated in equal detail to that of Great Britain.
