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Fire and Steam

Author : Christian Wolmar
Publisher : Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1848872615
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Fire and Steam written by Christian Wolmar and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, Fire and Steam tells the dramatic story of the people and events that shaped the world's first railway network, one of the most impressive engineering achievements in history. The opening of the pioneering Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830 marked the beginning of the railways' vital role in changing the face of Britain. Fire and Steam celebrates the vision and determination of the ambitious Victorian pioneers who developed this revolutionary transport system and the navvies who cut through the land to enable a country-wide network to emerge. The rise of the steam train allowed goods and people to circulate around Britain as never before, stimulating the growth of towns and industry, as well many of the facets of modern life, from fish and chips to professional football. From the early days of steam to electrification, via the railways' magnificent contribution in two world wars, the checkered history of British Rail, and the buoyant future of the train, Fire and Steam examines the social and economical importance of the railway and how it helped to form the Britain of today.

The First Railways

Author : Derek Hayes
Publisher : Times Books
ISBN 13 : 9780008249489
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book The First Railways written by Derek Hayes and published by Times Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly illustrated volume covering the emergence of the modern railway in a unique, essentially geographical way. Contemporary maps, many never before published, showing the locations and routes of the early railways.

Railways Began Here...

Author : Paul Rees
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Railways Began Here... written by Paul Rees and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nothing Like It In the World

Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743203173
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Nothing Like It In the World written by Stephen E. Ambrose and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-11-06 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.

The Railway Journey

Author : Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520957903
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Railway Journey written by Wolfgang Schivelbusch and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern society. But this was not always the case; as Wolfgang Schivelbusch points out in this fascinating study, our adaptation to technological change—the development of our modern, industrialized consciousness—was very much a learned behavior. In The Railway Journey, Schivelbusch examines the origins of this industrialized consciousness by exploring the reaction in the nineteenth century to the first dramatic avatar of technological change, the railroad. In a highly original and engaging fashion, Schivelbusch discusses the ways in which our perceptions of distance, time, autonomy, speed, and risk were altered by railway travel. As a history of the surprising ways in which technology and culture interact, this book covers a wide range of topics, including the changing perception of landscapes, the death of conversation while traveling, the problematic nature of the railway compartment, the space of glass architecture, the pathology of the railway journey, industrial fatigue and the history of shock, and the railroad and the city. Belonging to a distinguished European tradition of critical sociology best exemplified by the work of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, The Railway Journey is anchored in rich empirical data and full of striking insights about railway travel, the industrial revolution, and technological change. Now updated with a new preface, The Railway Journey is an invaluable resource for readers interested in nineteenth-century culture and technology and the prehistory of modern media and digitalization.

The Complete Book of North American Railroading

Author : Kevin EuDaly
Publisher : Crestline Books
ISBN 13 : 0785833897
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Book of North American Railroading written by Kevin EuDaly and published by Crestline Books. This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate over 150 years of the North American railroad with this visual history. You'll be amazed by over 400 modern and vintages photographs of these trains!

The Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

Author : Ron Brown
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459717791
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book The Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore written by Ron Brown and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the "green" benefits of rail travel, Canada has lost much of its railway heritage. Across the country stations have been bulldozed and rails ripped up. Once the heart of communities large and small, stations and tracks have left little more than a gaping hole in Canada's landscapes. This book revisits the times when railways were the country's economic lifeline, and the station the social centre. Here was where we worked, played, listened to political speeches, or simply said goodbye to loved ones never knowing when they would return. The landscapes which grew around the station are also explored and include such forgotten features as station hotels, restaurants, gardens and the once common railway YMCA. Railway companies often hired the world's leading architects to design grand station buildings which ranged in style from chateau-esque to art deco. Even small town stations and wayside shelters displayed an artistic flare and elegance. Although most have vanished, the book celebrates the survival of that heritage in stations which have been saved or indeed remain in use. The book will appeal to anyone who has links with our rail era, or who simply appreciates the value of Canada's built heritage.

The Railways of Jamaica

Author : James Horsford
Publisher : Mainline & Maritime
ISBN 13 : 9781900340205
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Railways of Jamaica written by James Horsford and published by Mainline & Maritime. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jamaica Railway Company opened in 1845 with British finance and locomotives and expanded to open up the interior of the island, transporting bananas, sugar, rum, and other produce to the ports. American steam started to appear in the years prior to WW1, however, Englishman P.C. Dewhurst was the CME during the early 20th Century. The Jamaica Government Railway owned the system from 1900 and in 1960 this became the state-owned but independent Jamaica Railway Corporation. Dieselisation with British-built locos and railcars developed from the mid-1950s, indeed the JRC even bought some ex-LMS Stanier coaches from BR in 1964. Other diesels came from Canada, and France. The history is described fully and the routes are followed in detail with track diagrams and photos showing many key locations and the traffic operating. Steam & diesel locomotives, railcars and rolling stock all have their own chapters to give comprehensive coverage.

Ghosts of Gold Mountain

Author : Gordon H. Chang
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 : 1328618579
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (286 download)

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Download or read book Ghosts of Gold Mountain written by Gordon H. Chang and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2019 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now.

The Great Railroad Revolution

Author : Christian Wolmar
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610391802
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Great Railroad Revolution written by Christian Wolmar and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line -- the first American railroad -- in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries and built through heroic effort, the American railroad network was bigger in every sense than Europe's, and facilitated everything from long-distance travel to commuting and transporting goods to waging war. It united far-flung parts of the country, boosted economic development, and was the catalyst for America's rise to world-power status. Every American town, great or small, aspired to be connected to a railroad and by the turn of the century, almost every American lived within easy access of a station. By the early 1900s, the United States was covered in a latticework of more than 200,000 miles of railroad track and a series of magisterial termini, all built and controlled by the biggest corporations in the land. The railroads dominated the American landscape for more than a hundred years but by the middle of the twentieth century, the automobile, the truck, and the airplane had eclipsed the railroads and the nation started to forget them. In The Great Railroad Revolution, renowned railroad expert Christian Wolmar tells the extraordinary story of the rise and the fall of the greatest of all American endeavors, and argues that the time has come for America to reclaim and celebrate its often-overlooked rail heritage.

The Stephensons' Rocket

Author : Michael Reeves Bailey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Stephensons' Rocket written by Michael Reeves Bailey and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1999, Michael Bailey and John Glithero undertook a major survey of the original Rocket, involving an examination of all its components and detailed research into the documentation relating to its history. This book is based on their findings. It describes Rocket, its main components and the way in which they worked. Setting the locomotive in its historical context, the book emphasises the importance of the father-and-son engineers, George and Robert Stephenson. It also tells of the fame that Rocket achieved in 1829 and its brief career at the very beginning of the railway era.

The Railways

Author : Simon Bradley
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847653529
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book The Railways written by Simon Bradley and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunday Times History Book of the Year 2015 Currently filming for BBC programme Full Steam Ahead Britain's railways have been a vital part of national life for nearly 200 years. Transforming lives and landscapes, they have left their mark on everything from timekeeping to tourism. As a self-contained world governed by distinctive rules and traditions, the network also exerts a fascination all its own. From the classical grandeur of Newcastle station to the ceaseless traffic of Clapham Junction, from the mysteries of Brunel's atmospheric railway to the lost routines of the great marshalling yards, Simon Bradley explores the world of Britain's railways, the evolution of the trains, and the changing experiences of passengers and workers. The Victorians' private compartments, railway rugs and footwarmers have made way for air-conditioned carriages with airline-type seating, but the railways remain a giant and diverse anthology of structures from every period, and parts of the system are the oldest in the world. Using fresh research, keen observation and a wealth of cultural references, Bradley weaves from this network a remarkable story of technological achievement, of architecture and engineering, of shifting social classes and gender relations, of safety and crime, of tourism and the changing world of work. The Railways shows us that to travel through Britain by train is to journey through time as well as space.

History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad

Author : Maury Klein
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813129150
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad written by Maury Klein and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1972 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The History of the First Public Railway

Author : Michael Heavisides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The History of the First Public Railway written by Michael Heavisides and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Train

Author : Tom Zoellner
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698151399
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Train written by Tom Zoellner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic and revelatory narrative of the most important transportation technology of the modern world In his wide-ranging and entertaining new book, Tom Zoellner—coauthor of the New York Times–bestselling An Ordinary Man—travels the globe to tell the story of the sociological and economic impact of the railway technology that transformed the world—and could very well change it again. From the frigid trans-Siberian railroad to the antiquated Indian Railways to the Japanese-style bullet trains, Zoellner offers a stirring story of this most indispensable form of travel. A masterful narrative history, Train also explores the sleek elegance of railroads and their hypnotizing rhythms, and explains how locomotives became living symbols of sex, death, power, and romance.

Early American Railroads

Author : Franz Anton Ritter von Gerstner
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804724234
Total Pages : 908 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (242 download)

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Download or read book Early American Railroads written by Franz Anton Ritter von Gerstner and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English translation of the most comprehensive and detailed work on the development, construction, finance, and operation of early American railroads and canals.

Camden and Amboy Railroad; Origin and Early History

Author : John Elfreth Watkins
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230427836
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book Camden and Amboy Railroad; Origin and Early History written by John Elfreth Watkins and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ... THE CAMDEN AND AMBOY RAILROAD. Origin, Early History, And Present Position In A Consolidated Railway System. By j. ELFRETH WATKINS, C. E. Curator of the Section of Transportation and Engineering U. S. National Museum, Washington. The wheel is a dial by which can be reckoned the degree of progress of every civilization When a people learn how to make and use it, the crooked ways are made straight--the rough places smooth. Footpaths are replaced by level highways, bridges are built over streams once forded, intercommunication is accelerated, commerce is stimulated, and a rapid national development follows. Such is the sequence of events frequently recorded in the history of the remote past, a history again forcibly repeated in this century of progress, when the construction of the iron highway closely followed the invention and perfection of the steam-driven wheel, the introduction of which in America united North and South and East and West in one grand empire. From the beginning mankind has been equally dependent upon the road-maker and the wheelwright for safe and rapid movement over land. So we, who are assembled here to-day to view the handsome stone erected by a generous parent to commemorate an important event in the infancy of an adopted child, are glad to pay homage to the memories of Watt, Trevithick, the two vStephensons, and the other mechanical engineers whose genius made it possible, here, to put the iron horse to work on the Camden and Amboy Railway, in the first movement by steam in the State of New Jersey, three-score years ago to-day. Nor shall we fail to recall with gratitude the remembrance of the labor of the great civil engineer who designed the original rails -- the type now in use in many lands, but first laid upon...