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Book Synopsis Memories of Southern Railways by : Mike Jacobs
Download or read book Memories of Southern Railways written by Mike Jacobs and published by Ian Allen Pub. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2010 the first volume of Mike Jacob's enchanting memories of his railway childhood was published. 'MEMORIES OF ISLE OF WIGHT RAILWAYS' combined personal reminiscences with accurate factual information. This new volume continues the same theme, but at two differing periods. Firstly Mike Jacob's memories that pre-date his time on the Isle of Wight and then later, and as the title of this new book suggests, his visits to and travels on and around the Southern Region in the 1950s and early 1960s. Readers are privileged to see Hampshire railways in the 1940s, the time as a child he first saw a sailor carrying bananas at Portsmouth station - without knowing what they were: a strange machine that turned out to be the 'Leader' on a test run, and later still visits to Eastleigh and interviews with the Works Manager: which revealed some interested facets on Mr Bulleid and his engines! The story continues with equally wonderful descriptions of visits from Kent across to Cornwall. This new title is copiously illustrated with new material, a lot of which has never previously published. Just like the first volume, this is a compelling book which once started will be difficult to put down
Book Synopsis The Southern Railway: Further Recollections by : C. Pat Cates
Download or read book The Southern Railway: Further Recollections written by C. Pat Cates and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005-09-14 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on the heels of Images of Rail: The Southern Railway, this volume takes a more detailed look at a historic railroad that has served the South for over 100 years and continues to serve as the Norfolk Southern Railway. Included in these pages are stories of bravery in war and ingenuity in peace. From 1942 to 1945, the 727th Railway Operating Battalion'sponsored by the Southern Railway'served in North Africa and up the spine of Italy into Germany. The courageous unit received a citation from Gen. George S. Patton for its involvement in the Sicily Campaign.
Download or read book Southern Railway written by C. Pat Cates and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on the heels of Images of Rail: The Southern Railway, this volume takes a more detailed look at a historic railroad that has served the South for over 100 years and continues to serve as the Norfolk Southern Railway. Included in these pages are stories of bravery in war and ingenuity in peace. From 1942 to 1945, the 727th Railway Operating Battalion--sponsored by the Southern Railway--served in North Africa and up the spine of Italy into Germany. The courageous unit received a citation from Gen. George S. Patton for its involvement in the Sicily Campaign.
Author :Louis Decimus Rubin (Jr.) Publisher :Univ of South Carolina Press ISBN 13 :9781570033827 Total Pages :224 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (338 download)
Book Synopsis A Memory of Trains by : Louis Decimus Rubin (Jr.)
Download or read book A Memory of Trains written by Louis Decimus Rubin (Jr.) and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a literary critic and historian, uses over 100 of his own photographs to recall his life-long love of trains.
Download or read book Myths and Memories written by Cindy Lane and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the perceptions of European travelling writers about southern Western Australia between 1850 and 1914. Theirs was a narrow vision of space and people in the region, shaped by their individual personalities, their position in society, and the prevailing discourses and ideologies of the age. Christian, Enlightenment, and Romantic philosophies had a major influence on their responses to the land – its cultivation and conservation, and its aesthetic qualities – and on their views of both indigenous and settler colonial society – their class and assumptions of race and ethnicity. The travelling men and women perpetuated an idealised view of a colonised landscape, and a “pioneer” community that eliminated class struggle and inequality, even though an analysis of their observations suggests otherwise. Nevertheless, although limited, their narratives are invaluable as a reflection of opinions, attitudes and knowledge prevalent during an age of imperialism. Their perspectives reveal unique viewpoints that differ from those of immigrants who wrote about their hopes and fears in making a new life for themselves. These travellers were economically secure, literate and educated; foundations which provide an insight into the way power and privilege, implicit in their writings, governed the way they imagined Western Australia in the colonial and immediate post-federation period. The tinted lenses through which European travelling writers narrowly observed space and people, presented a mythical, imagined sense of southern Western Australia.
Book Synopsis Iron Confederacies by : Scott Reynolds Nelson
Download or read book Iron Confederacies written by Scott Reynolds Nelson and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During Reconstruction, an alliance of southern planters and northern capitalists rebuilt the southern railway system using remnants of the Confederate railroads that had been built and destroyed during the Civil War. In the process of linking Virginia, th
Download or read book Purley Days written by David Monk-Steel and published by . This book was released on 2007* with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Alfred Raworth's Electric Southern Railway by : Peter Steer
Download or read book Alfred Raworth's Electric Southern Railway written by Peter Steer and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 703 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southern Railway between 1923 and 1939 was the only British company to carry out a sustained programme of electrification which became known as the Southern Electric. Unlike many recent projects, each incremental step was completed on time and within budget. This successful project was more impressive as it was achieved during a period of economic stagnation (including the ‘great depression’) and despite government disapproval of the method of electrification. The driving force behind this endeavor was the railway’s general manager, Sir Herbert Walker, but at his side was his electrical engineer, Alfred Raworth, the man one journalist described as an ‘electrification genius’. Alfred Raworth’s career began working with his father the eminent consulting engineer and entrepreneur, John Smith Raworth. Following the collapse of his father’s business Alfred joined the railway industry and devised an ambitious and innovative electrification design. This was discarded when the railways of southern England were ‘grouped’ into the Southern Railway after which he took responsibility for the implementation of the electrification schemes. With Walker’s retirement in 1937, those who continued to support steam traction took the policy lead. A marginalised Raworth retired but was later to witness the fruition of many of his discarded ideas.
Book Synopsis On the Wings of Memory by : Ahmed. M
Download or read book On the Wings of Memory written by Ahmed. M and published by Prowess Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A periodic autobiographical narrative from Independence to millennium, a bildungsroman, ‘a coming of age stories’ of formation, education culture; covers important events during fifty tumultuous years of post independence India; the scenes of turmoil during Hyderabad liberation in 1948 and the harrowing scenes of immigrants returning to Madras composite state from Nizam’s territory; the reorganization of states on lingual base; life in Kurnool and years of father-bereft family of a widow mother, siblings; back to Hyderabad, an event filled life.
Download or read book Southern Railway written by Tom Murray and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2007-12-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few railroads are as deeply associated with the regions they serve as the Southern Railway. This illustrated account of the venerable Southern is both the story of the railroads 88-year tenure as the transportation force in the region and a fascinating chapter of Southern history. The Southern Railway--the first major U. S. railroad to completely convert to diesel--eventually incorporated some 150 individual predecessor railroads into its system. Author Tom Murray explores this complex prehistory before examining the Southern's nearly nine decades of freight and passenger service, right up to its 1982 merger with Norfolk & Western to form Norfolk Southern. Financier J. P. Morgan makes an appearance in the story, which takes in points of interest such as the 21.5-mile trestle across Louisianas Lake Pontchartrain and legendary passenger trains like the Crescent and the Southerner. Wonderful archival photos capture the railways motive power and rolling stock against the regions cityscapes and scenic countryside. The book also includes system maps, period ads, and timetables.
Book Synopsis Memories and Music by : Sir Dan Godfrey
Download or read book Memories and Music written by Sir Dan Godfrey and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Memories of an S.O.E. Historian by : M. R. D. Foot
Download or read book Memories of an S.O.E. Historian written by M. R. D. Foot and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2009-04-29 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historian of the British World War II intelligence organization chronicles his life and service career in this memoir. Michael (M.R.D.) Foot enjoys the rare distinction of being the only person referred to by his real name in a John Le Carré novel. A highly significant tribute to the man entrusted with writing the official record of the Special Operations Executive. He authored first (1966) the History of SOE in France and twenty years later the highly sensitive accounts of SOE operations in Belgium and Holland (which the Germans infiltrated with disastrous results). With his own war service background and academic reputation M.R.D. was an inspired choice for these historic tasks. He was fearless in pursuit of the truth and in thwarting bureaucratic attempts to muzzle him. His war exploits make thrilling reading. His behind-the-lines mission to track down a notorious SD interrogator went badly wrong, and he only just escaped with his life. His career has brought him into close contact with an astonishing cast of characters, and his tongue-in-cheek account of academic life makes lively reading.
Download or read book The Railway Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Forgeries of Memory and Meaning by : Cedric J. Robinson
Download or read book Forgeries of Memory and Meaning written by Cedric J. Robinson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cedric J. Robinson offers a new understanding of race in America through his analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. He argues that economic, political, and cultural forces present in the eras of silent film and the early "talkies" firmly entrenched limited representations of African Americans. Robinson grounds his study in contexts that illuminate the parallel growth of racial beliefs and capitalism, beginning with Shakespearean England and the development of international trade. He demonstrates how the needs of American commerce determined the construction of successive racial regimes that were publicized in the theater and in motion pictures, particularly through plantation and jungle films. In addition to providing new depth and complexity to the history of black representation, Robinson examines black resistance to these practices. Whereas D. W. Griffith appropriated black minstrelsy and romanticized a national myth of origins, Robinson argues that Oscar Micheaux transcended uplift films to create explicitly political critiques of the American national myth. Robinson's analysis marks a new way of approaching the intellectual, political, and media racism present in the beginnings of American narrative cinema.
Book Synopsis Colorado & Southern Railway by : Allan C. Lewis
Download or read book Colorado & Southern Railway written by Allan C. Lewis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1860, thousands journeyed to the Colorado Territory, beckoned by reports of gold discoveries in the mountains west of Denver. In the early 1870s, W.A.H. Loveland built a railroad connecting Denver to the Clear Creek Mining District-the Colorado Central Railroad. Over the next 28 years, other lines were established, bought, sold, extended, and merged to service the mining towns of Black Hawk, Central City, Idaho Springs, and Silver Plume. In 1898, the Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf, and the Denver Leadville & Gunnison were combined to form the Colorado & Southern Railway. After more than 40 years of dedication to the Clear Creek District, the railroad was scrapped in 1941. However, tourism would revitalize the area, and in the years to come a group of enthusiasts began to rebuild a portion of the old right of way. Toady, the spirit of the C&S is alive again, and rail fans can make the same journey over "The Loop" that thrilled tourists a century ago.
Book Synopsis Southern Region Memories by : John Sharp
Download or read book Southern Region Memories written by John Sharp and published by Noodle Books. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis In Memoriam Samuel Spencer by : Southern Railway (U.S.). General committee of employees
Download or read book In Memoriam Samuel Spencer written by Southern Railway (U.S.). General committee of employees and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
