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Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (867 download)
Download or read book The Standedge Canal Tunnel and Railway Tunnels written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Wells
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Standedge railway tunnels written by J. Wells and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hubert Pragnell
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1399049429
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
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.
Author : Stanley Chadwick
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Through the Backbone of England written by Stanley Chadwick and published by . This book was released on 1945* with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Trevor Ellis
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ISBN 13 : 9781527215542
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (155 download)
Download or read book The Standedge Tunnels written by Trevor Ellis and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gösta E. Sandström
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Tunnels written by Gösta E. Sandström and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expert technological account of tunneling from prehistoric times to 20th century marvels.
Author : Stanley Chadwick
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Through the Backbone of England written by Stanley Chadwick and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Blower
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Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Download or read book British Railway Tunnels written by Alan Blower and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Owen Ashmore
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719008207
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (82 download)
Download or read book The Industrial Archaeology of North-west England written by Owen Ashmore and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : ALLAN C. BAKER
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ISBN 13 : 9781911038627
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (386 download)
Download or read book HARECASTLE'S CANAL AND RAILWAY TUNNELS. written by ALLAN C. BAKER and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert William Rennison
Publisher : Thomas Telford
ISBN 13 : 9780727725189
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (251 download)
Download or read book Civil Engineering Heritage written by Robert William Rennison and published by Thomas Telford. This book was released on 1996 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide covers the northern counties of England, from the border with Scotland to the southern extremities of South Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, and Merseyside - as well as the Isle of Man. It describes the many examples of these regions' civil engineering heritage: the best of many types of structure; works which played a major role in development of these areas; and those which achieve some special aesthetic qualtiy.
Author : Gösta E. Sandström
Publisher : London : Barrie and Rockliff
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The History of Tunnelling written by Gösta E. Sandström and published by London : Barrie and Rockliff. This book was released on 1963 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael M. Chrimes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351892630
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The Civil Engineering of Canals and Railways before 1850 written by Michael M. Chrimes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1750 and 1850 the British landscape was transformed by a transport revolution which involved engineering works on a scale not seen in Europe since Roman times. While the economic background of the canal and railway ages are relatively well known and many histories have been written about the locomotives which ran on the railways, relatively little has been published on how the engineering works themselves were made possible. This book brings together a series of papers which seek to answer the questions of how canals and railways were built, how the engineers responsible organised the works, how they were designed and what the role of the contractors was in the process.
Author : William Lowell Putnam
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786489200
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Great Railroad Tunnels of North America written by William Lowell Putnam and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-07-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describing and detailing the boring of major railroad tunnels throughout Canada, the United States, and Mexico, this book covers the period from the creation of Virginia's Blue Ridge Tunnel in the 1850s to Copper Canyon's Continental and El Descanso tunnels in the early 1960s. Other notable tunnels featured here include Massachusetts' notoriously expensive and slow-progressing Hoosac Tunnel; Colorado's rail and water Moffat Tunnel; Montana's Flathead Tunnel; and several major tunnels along the Canadian Pacific's main line. In addition to providing details on the tunnels, the author considers the reasons they were created, their engineers, and their use. The book includes more than 50 period and contemporary photos. A glossary explains concepts related to railroad construction and maintenance.
Author : Clifford Alfred Pequignot
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Tunnels and Tunnelling written by Clifford Alfred Pequignot and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Railway Year Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
