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Book Synopsis Scotland's Lost Branch Lines by : David Spaven
Download or read book Scotland's Lost Branch Lines written by David Spaven and published by . This book was released on 2024-06-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The infamous 'Beeching Axe' swept away virtually every Scottish branch line in the 1960s. Conventional wisdom viewed these losses as regrettable yet inevitable in an era of growing affluence and rising car ownership. This ground-breaking analysis of Beeching's flawed approach to closures has unearthed strong evidence of a 'stitch-up' - the Beeching Report ignored the scope for sensible economies which would have allowed a significant number of axed routes to survive and prosper.David Spaven traces the birth, life and eventual death of Scotland's branch lines, and outlines the controversial closure process through the unique stories of how a dozen routes lost their trains in the 1960s: the lines to Ballachulish, Ballater, Callander, Crail, Crieff, Fraserburgh, Kelso, Kilmacolm, Leven, Peebles, Peterhead and St Andrews.He concludes by exploring a potential renaissance of branch lines, propelled by concerns over road congestion and the climate emergency.Features rarely seen photographic material including 96 photographs and maps.
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.
Book Synopsis Railway Returns for England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland ... by : Great Britain. Board of Trade
Download or read book Railway Returns for England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland ... written by Great Britain. Board of Trade and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Railway Season by : David St John Thomas
Download or read book Railway Season written by David St John Thomas and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate the days when trains were trains, individual expresses had their own character, serving their passengers in style in restaurant car, and connecting services ran over picturesque branch lines that were a very part of the countryside they served. Railway Season by David St John Thomas whose Country Railway sold an astonishing 170,000 copies, captures all our railway yesterdays with panache. This is indeed a railway book like no other, a portfolio of word portraits by an enthusiast who knows his subject intimately and is never at a loss for a telling example. From his imaginary but life-like 'Day in the life of a country terminus' to the ground-breaking stuff of the natural history of railways, and from the colourful history of excursions to a poignant reminder of what traffic used to be like on peak Summer Saturdays, an evocation of watching trains and a reminder of Christmases past, the book rolls irresistibly along ... and that only mentions a fraction of the chapters. Though this is not specifically a book about the country side inevitably it looms large since even intercity trains run through it ... as demonstrated in the chapter 'A country journey like no other', which also emphasizes the author's West Country background. But whatever your interest in railways and wherever your favourite part of the countryside, there is much here for you. The chapter on railways for pleasure perhaps sums it all up.
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 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Mather explores eastern Scotland's disused railway lines.
Book Synopsis Branch Line Britain by : Paul Atterbury
Download or read book Branch Line Britain written by Paul Atterbury and published by David & Charles Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an array of nostalgic photographs and ephemera, this work celebrates the heritage of branchline and rural Britain. It explores surviving lines, and lines no longer in use, visits preserved lines and travels on those lines long forgotten.
Book Synopsis The Scottish Law Review and Sheriff Court Reports by :
Download or read book The Scottish Law Review and Sheriff Court Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 29-47, 1913-1931 and v. 72-79, 1956-1963 include Scottish Land Court reports, v. 1-19 and v. 44-51.
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 354 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.
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 Railway Paths and Byways SCOTTISH BORDERS by : Allan Foster
Download or read book Railway Paths and Byways SCOTTISH BORDERS written by Allan Foster and published by Allan Foster. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of the 1960s closure had claimed most of the branch railway lines in the Scottish Borders. Yet, sad as their passing was, the railways left us a gift - not just of nostalgia, but the wonderful and practical gift of miles and miles of winding pathways, which were once the iron roads of steam: routes for walkers, cyclists and the footloose wanderer, all keen to traverse the countryside from a different perspective. This book will lead you through some of the best railway paths and byways in the Borders, exploring on the way its landscapes, folklore and long lost railway past. Plenty of books have been written about the lost railways of here, there and everywhere. But this book simply celebrates their parting gift: the railway path, which was born at great cost. During the 1960s 650 miles of railway lines in Scotland were axed. One of the most saddening of all these closures was the 98-mile Waverley Route from Edinburgh to Carlisle, which left the Scottish Borders the only region in Britain without a rail service, and Hawick the town furthest from any railway station. Throughout history branch railways have rarely made much of a profit due to their high operating costs; but, along with the Romans, they did help create the modern world. In the 1960s, however, the political world decided that the railways had had their day, and believed that the future lay in road transport. With hindsight it may seem easy to see the wrong turnings politicians and planners took, but in those days road congestion had yet to become a serious issue. Nonetheless, what happened to the railways during the sixties was way beyond a wrong turning: it was a cold-blooded slaughter that ignored social consequences and destroyed people's livelihoods. Since those days miles and miles of motorways and bypasses have carved up the countryside, and motoring has turned into a chaos we are forced to live with. The railways may have created the modern world, but the car is seemingly intent on destroying it. Although most of the old branch lines are gone today, a few, like the new Borders Railway that opened in 2015, are struggling back to life. But while for the most part they are just a dream remembered, it was in the aftermath of this mass destruction that our railway paths were spawned, and as a consequence of the closure of the railways we have been left a legacy of miles and miles of tranquil, traffic-free, winding pathways across the Borders in a landscape of tumbling hills and the mighty River Tweed. A true land of romance for all to explore, our means to enjoy it is thanks in no small part to the railways that once weaved their way across this glamour-haunted land.
Book Synopsis Nature and Space in Contemporary Scottish Writing and Art by : Camille Manfredi
Download or read book Nature and Space in Contemporary Scottish Writing and Art written by Camille Manfredi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how contemporary Scottish writers and artists revisit and reclaim nature in the political and aesthetic context of devolved Scotland. Camille Manfredi investigates the interaction of landscape aesthetics and strategies of spatial representation in Scotland’s twenty-first-century literature and arts, focusing on the apparatuses designed by nature writers, poets, performers, walking artists and visual artists to physically and intellectually engage with the land and re-present it to themselves and to the world. Through a comprehensive analysis of a variety of site-specific artistic practices, artworks and publications, this book investigates the works of Scotland-based artists including Linda Cracknell, Kathleen Jamie, Thomas A. Clark, Gerry Loose, John Burnside, Alec Finlay, Hamish Fulton, Hanna Tuulikki and Roseanne Watt, with a view to exploring the ongoing re-invention of a territory-bound identity that dwells on an inclusive sense of place, as well as on a complex renegotiation with the time and space of Scotland.
Book Synopsis Trains of Recollection Drawn from Fifty Years of Railway Service in Scotland and Canada by : David Blyth Hanna
Download or read book Trains of Recollection Drawn from Fifty Years of Railway Service in Scotland and Canada written by David Blyth Hanna and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reference Book to the incorporated Railway Companies of Scotland by : Henry Glynn
Download or read book Reference Book to the incorporated Railway Companies of Scotland written by Henry Glynn and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Scottish Railway Atlas by : David Spaven
Download or read book The Scottish Railway Atlas written by David Spaven and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2016-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich diversity of Scotland's railway network has never before been the subject of a specialist atlas. This book showcases 181 topographical and railway maps, telling the story of the country's railways from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Researched and written by David Spaven - who co-wrote the best-selling Mapping the Railways on the history of Britain's rail network - this beautiful atlas allows the reader to understand the bigger story of the effects of the railways on the landscape and the impact of Scotland's distinctive geography on the pattern of railway development over a period of nearly 200 years. The unique map selection is supported by an informative commentary of key cartographic, geographic and historical features. This sumptuous atlas will appeal not just to railway enthusiasts and those who appreciate the beauty of maps, but also to readers fascinated by the role of railways in Scotland's modern developments.
Book Synopsis Through Scotland by the Caledonian Railway by : George Eyre-Todd
Download or read book Through Scotland by the Caledonian Railway written by George Eyre-Todd and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Scotland's Railways in the 1980s & 1990s by : Peter J. Green
Download or read book Scotland's Railways in the 1980s & 1990s written by Peter J. Green and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A book full of nostalgia for those who thought railways after the end of steam would be an endless stream of lookalike boxes . . . a revelation.” —Rail Advent In the 1980s and early 1990s, Scotland was an excellent destination for the railway enthusiast. The many locomotive hauled trains running through splendid scenery, together with the surviving railway infrastructure and mechanical signaling, provided many fine photographic opportunities. Peter J. Green’s first railway visit to Scotland was on board the Fair Maid railtour to Perth, behind Flying Scotsman in 1983. The following year, he again traveled to Scotland, this time on the F & W Railtours’ The Skirl o’ the Pipes 4, to Kyle of Lochalsh and Mallaig, his first visit to the Scottish Highlands. Green had previously been traveling abroad for railways, but impressed by what he saw, he decided that he would quickly return to photograph the Scottish railway scene, before it changed too much. This was the start of a series of visits, each for one or two weeks, between 1984 and June 1991, covering the whole country. This book is a photographic record of the locomotives, trains and infrastructure of the railways of Scotland and the landscapes through which the trains ran, as recorded by Green’s various cameras during the period of his visits. “Lots to enjoy, not just the Scottish locomotives themselves, but their trains and the world beyond, which in some cases has changed beyond recognition in the years since these photographs were taken. Highly recommended.” —The Railway Magazine
Book Synopsis Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland and in the House of Lords on Appeal from Scotland by :
Download or read book Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland and in the House of Lords on Appeal from Scotland written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
