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Author : Michael Robert Bonavia
Publisher : Trafalgar Square Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Four Great Railways written by Michael Robert Bonavia and published by Trafalgar Square Publishing. This book was released on 1980 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 054752515X
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book The Great Railway Bazaar written by Paul Theroux and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author recounts his epic journey across Europe and Asia in this international bestselling classic of travel literature: “Compulsive reading” (Graham Greene). In 1973, Paul Theroux embarked on a four-month journey by train from the United Kingdom through Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. In The Great Railway Bazaar, he records in vivid detail and penetrating insight the many fascinating incidents, adventures, and encounters of his grand, intercontinental tour. Asia's fabled trains—the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Mandalay Express, the Trans-Siberian Express—are the stars of a journey that takes Theroux on a loop eastbound from London's Victoria Station to Tokyo Central, then back from Japan on the Trans-Siberian. Brimming with Theroux's signature humor and wry observations, this engrossing chronicle is essential reading for both the ardent adventurer and the armchair traveler.
Author : Geoff Plumb
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 147386979X
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book British Railways in the 1960s written by Geoff Plumb and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “profusely illustrated” and “impressively informative” look at the end of the steam locomotive era on one of UK’s Big Four railway lines (Midwest Book Review). After the Second War, Britain’s railways were rundown and worn out, requiring massive investment and modernization. The Big Four railway companies were nationalized from 1948, and the newly formed British Railways embarked on a program of building new Standard steam locomotives to replace older types. These started to come on stream from 1951. This program was superseded by the 1955 scheme to dieselize and electrify many lines and so the last loco of the Standard types was built in 1960 and the steam locomotives had been swept entirely from the BR network by 1968. This series of books, The Geoff Plumb Collection, is a photographic account of those last few years of the steam locomotives, their decline and replacement during the transition years. Each book covers one of the former Big Four, the Southern Railway, London Midland & Scottish Railway, Great Western Railway and London & North Eastern Railway, including some pictures of the Scottish lines of the LMS and LNER. Though not a complete history of the railways, the books bring a sense of occasion to the last run of a locomotive type or a stretch of line about to be closed down. Pictures are of the highest quality that could be produced with the equipment then available, but they do reflect real life and real times. In simple terms, a look at a period not so long ago but now gone forever. “An evocative collection of views of the twilight of BR steam.” —Railway Modeller
Author : David Maidment
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1399095463
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Four-coupled Tank Locomotive Classes Absorbed by the Great Western Railway written by David Maidment and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2023-10-30 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive history of the four coupled tank engines absorbed by the Great Western Railway – locomotives of nine Broad Gauge companies, nineteen Standard Gauge companies, mainly in the South West which became part of the GWR between the 1870s and 1914, and a further eighteen companies, mainly in South Wales absorbed by the GWR in 1922 and 1923 at the formation of the ‘Big Four’ Grouping. The locomotives described and illustrated range from the 4-4-0 Broad Gauge saddle tanks of the South Devon and Bristol & Exeter Railways to the large 4-4-4 tank locomotives of the Midland & South Western Junction Railway, not forgetting the numerous and varied 0-4-0 pug saddle tanks of the Swansea Harbour Trust and the Powlesland & Mason company. The book includes thirty-two weight diagrams and nearly 200 photographs, many of exotic and rare locomotives.
Author : Andrew Roden
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781781310151
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Great Western Railway written by Andrew Roden and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roden’s comprehensive new history of this remarkable railway company tells the story of nothing less than the opening-up of the isolated Southwest of England to the trade and tourism of the modern age. It has left us with soaring termini like Paddington and Bristol Temple Meads as well as glorious railway institutions like the Night Riviera overnight sleeper to Cornwall that endure to this day (not least thanks to the author’s own campaigning!). While the GWR’s green locomotives and chocolate and cream carriages may have given way to purple, anyone who wants to return to the golden age of the railways will find the company’s history an enthralling journey.
Author : William Quinn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108369359
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Boom and Bust written by William Quinn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? In order to answer these questions, William Quinn and John D. Turner take us on a riveting ride through the history of financial bubbles, visiting, among other places, Paris and London in 1720, Latin America in the 1820s, Melbourne in the 1880s, New York in the 1920s, Tokyo in the 1980s, Silicon Valley in the 1990s and Shanghai in the 2000s. As they do so, they help us understand why bubbles happen, and why some have catastrophic economic, social and political consequences whilst others have actually benefited society. They reveal that bubbles start when investors and speculators react to new technology or political initiatives, showing that our ability to predict future bubbles will ultimately come down to being able to predict these sparks.
Author : David Maidment
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1526772515
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Midland Railway and L M S 4-4-0 Locomotives written by David Maidment and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Maidment has unravelled the complex history of the Johnson, Deeley and Fowler 4-4-0 locomotives of the Midland Railway and its LMS successor, covering their design, construction, operation and performance in this book with over 400 black and white photographs. It recounts their working on the Midland main lines from St Pancras to Derby, Manchester, Leeds and Carlisle, the latter via the celebrated Settle & Carlisle line, and the later work of the Fowler LMS engines on the West Coast main line. The book also describes the history of the Midland 4-4-0s built for the Somerset & Dorset and Midland & Great Northern Railways. The book covers the period from the first Midland 4-4-0 built in 1876 to the last LMS 2P withdrawn in 1962 and includes performance logs, weight diagrams and dimensions and statistical details of each locomotive.
Author : Christian Wolmar
Publisher : Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1848872615
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)
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.
Author : Keith Robbins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198224969
Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (249 download)
Download or read book A Bibliography of British History, 1914-1989 written by Keith Robbins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing over 25,000 entries, this unique volume will be absolutely indispensable for all those with an interest in Britain in the twentieth century. Accessibly arranged by theme, with helpful introductions to each chapter, a huge range of topics is covered. There is a comprehensiveindex.
Author : Andrew Dow
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801882923
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations written by Andrew Dow and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-04-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations is an authoritative compendium of quotations about railways from 1608 to the present day. More than 3,400 entries are drawn from over 1,300 writers and speakers and a wide range of original sources both British and American—Acts of Parliament, poetry, songs, journals, advertisements, obituaries, novels, histories, plays, films, office memoranda, speeches, newspapers, television and radio broadcasts, and private documents and conversations. Here Andrew Dow records remarkable, memorable words—from the well-known to the abstruse, from the commonplace to the vital. The selected quotations are arranged by subject matter and searchable by speaker, subject, and keyword. Dow's Dictionary will inform and captivate railway enthusiasts along with readers interested in railway architecture, engineering, geography, and history.
Author : Philip Bagwell
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781852855901
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (559 download)
Download or read book Transport in Britain written by Philip Bagwell and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-10-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting long term themes in Britain's transport history, this book looks at the dilemmas facing modern society and suggests several possible solutions. It covers all the major forms of transport, from the horse to the aeroplane, setting them in their historical context.
Author : Colin G. Maggs
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 1803992298
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Story of the Big Four Railway Companies written by Colin G. Maggs and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GWR, LMS, LNER and SR: these initials arouse memories of the Cornish Riviera Express, the streamlined Coronation Scot, the streamlined Coronation with its beaver tail, and the Southern Electrics, yet three of these companies only enjoyed a life of 25 years. Colin G. Maggs, who was born in this era and is one of the country’s leading railway historians, is perfectly placed to tell the story of how these Big Four companies came into being and their enormous success following the rundown of the railways during the First World War, which system of neglect led to 26 companies becoming 4. The remarkable, if surprisingly brief, era of the Big Four saw great changes and achievements, including streamlining; speed records; electrification; diesel power; railway-owned buses and aircraft; and a real sense of cooperation between companies at last.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Biographical Notices of William James, Esq., Projector of the Railway System in England written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Braithwaite POOLE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Economy of Railways as a Means of Transit, Comprising the Classification of the Traffic, in Relation to the Most Appropriate Speeds for Theconveyance of Passengers and Merchandise ... Edited by C. Manby, Etc written by Braithwaite POOLE and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Turnock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351958933
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
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.
Author : Edgar J. Larkin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349080748
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Railway Workshops of Britain, 1823-1986 written by Edgar J. Larkin and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-06-18 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated history of Britain's railway workshops, covering the period from 1823 to 1986, this book deals with the history of the main railway workshops of Britain, a subject of wide-ranging mechanical and electrical engineering interest.
Author : William Galt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Railway Reform; Its Expediency and Practicability Considered written by William Galt and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
