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Book Synopsis The Great Western Railway Companion, and Guide to the Castle and Town of Windsor, Eton and Its College, and Virginia Water by : Arthur Freeling
Download or read book The Great Western Railway Companion, and Guide to the Castle and Town of Windsor, Eton and Its College, and Virginia Water written by Arthur Freeling and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Western Railway by :
Download or read book Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Western Railway written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of the Great Western Railway by : Colin Maggs
Download or read book A History of the Great Western Railway written by Colin Maggs and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative history of the most iconic railway company of the great age of steam.
Download or read book Dod's Parliamentary Companion written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Four-Coupled Tank Locomotive Classes Built by the Great Western Railway by : David Maidment
Download or read book Four-Coupled Tank Locomotive Classes Built by the Great Western Railway written by David Maidment and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive history of all twenty-six classes of four coupled tank engines commissioned by the Great Western Railway or built at their Wolverhampton and Swindon Works, from the Broad Gauge 2-4-0 and 4-4-0 tanks of the 1840s and 1850s to the well known Collett 0-4-2 branch line engines of classes 48XX (later renumbered 14XX) and 58XX of the 1930s. As well as the Broad Gauge engines, the strange looking ‘Covertibles’ of William Dean, a number of experimental ‘one-off’ designs, the numerous Wolverhampton 0-4-2Ts of the ‘517’ class and the Swindon built ‘2-4-0 ‘Metro Tanks’ are described with – where known – their allocation and operation. The book includes twenty weight diagrams and nearly 300 photographs, over 50 in color. The four-coupled tank engines absorbed by the Great Western from other companies at or before 1923 will be featured in a separate volume to follow.
Book Synopsis Appleton's Companion Hand-book of Travel ... Through the United States and the Canadas. With Colored Maps. Edited by T. A. Richards by : Daniel APPLETON (AND CO.)
Download or read book Appleton's Companion Hand-book of Travel ... Through the United States and the Canadas. With Colored Maps. Edited by T. A. Richards written by Daniel APPLETON (AND CO.) and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Appleton's Companion Hand-book of Travel by : Thomas Addison Richards
Download or read book Appleton's Companion Hand-book of Travel written by Thomas Addison Richards and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Appletons' Companion Hand-book of Travel to the United States and British Provinces by :
Download or read book Appletons' Companion Hand-book of Travel to the United States and British Provinces written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Appletons' Companion Hand-book of Travel by : Thomas Addison Richards
Download or read book Appletons' Companion Hand-book of Travel written by Thomas Addison Richards and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ladies' Companion written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Railway Times ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Early History of Railway Tunnels by : Hubert Pragnell
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 282 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.
Book Synopsis The Invention of the English Landscape by : Peter Borsay
Download or read book The Invention of the English Landscape written by Peter Borsay and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since at least the Reformation, English men and women have been engaged in visiting, exploring and portraying, in words and images, the landscape of their nation. The Invention of the English Landscape examines these journeys and investigations to explore how the natural and historic English landscape was reconfigured to become a widely enjoyed cultural and leisure resource. Peter Borsay considers the manifold forces behind this transformation, such as the rise of consumer culture, the media, industrial and transport revolutions, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the Gothic revival. In doing so, he reveals the development of a powerful bond between landscape and natural identity, against the backdrop of social and political change from the early modern period to the start of the Second World War. Borsay's interdisciplinary approach demonstrates how human understandings of the natural world shaped the geography of England, and uncovers a wealth of valuable material, from novels and poems to paintings, that expose historical understandings of the landscape. This innovative approach illuminates how the English countryside and historic buildings became cultural icons behind which the nation was rallied during war-time, and explores the emergence of a post-war heritage industry that is now a definitive part of British cultural life.
Book Synopsis Eyewitness Companions: Art by : Robert Cumming
Download or read book Eyewitness Companions: Art written by Robert Cumming and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-10-17 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title covers all of the key movements in Western art history, from Classicism to conceptual art - and profiles more than 780 of the world''s greatest artists. Specially commissioned illustrations and photographs, written by experts in each field, using the award winning design of the Eyewitness Travel Guides, Eyewitness Companions are the ultimate visual handbook to a wide range of subjects! Text previously published in ART: A Field Guide
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of the Birmingham Collection by : Birmingham Public Libraries
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Birmingham Collection written by Birmingham Public Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Railway Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Terror in the Tunnels by : Rosa Matheson
Download or read book Terror in the Tunnels written by Rosa Matheson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exciting early days of the railways were tempered with danger, as the Victorian concept of health and safety was rather different to ours. Going ‘into the dark’ was a frightening experience and tunneling under the ground and under water was a death-defying activity in nineteenth-century Britain – many workers and travellers paid the ultimate price. Flooding, collapses and explosions, as well as malodorous air and illness, were just some of the challenges workers faced in order to make tunnels passable. Even once the tunnels had been completed, accidents were still frequent, whether collisions, derailments or fires. In this fascinating history, Rosa Matheson explores the grim past of Britain’s well-known and lesser-known railway tunnel disasters, and how their ‘terror’ led to a safer future.
