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Author : Francis Whishaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Railways of Great Britain and Ireland Practically Described and Illustrated written by Francis Whishaw and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Dow
Publisher : Wharncliffe
ISBN 13 : 1473822572
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book The Railway written by Andrew Dow and published by Wharncliffe. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never before has a comprehensive history been written of the track used by railways of all gauges, tramways, and cliff railways, in Great Britain. And yet it was the development of track, every bit as much as the development of the locomotive, that has allowed our railways to provide an extraordinarily wide range of services. Without the track of today, with its laser-guided maintenance machines, the TGV and the Eurostar could not cruise smoothly at 272 feet per second, nor could 2,000-ton freight trains carry a wide range of materials, or suburban railways, over and under the ground, serve our great cities in a way that roads never could. ??Andrew Dow's account of the development of track, involving deep research in the papers of professional institutions as well as rare books, company records and personal accounts, paints a vivid picture of development from primitive beginnings to modernity. ??The book contains nearly 200 specially-commissioned drawings as well as many photographs of track in its very many forms since the appearance of the steam locomotive in 1804. Included are chapters on electrified railways, and on the development of mechanised maintenance, which revolutionised the world of the platelayer.
Author : George Drysdale Dempsey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Railways written by George Drysdale Dempsey and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis WHISHAW
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Railways of Great Britain and Ireland, Practically Described and Illustrated ... Second Edition, with Some Additional Useful Plates written by Francis WHISHAW and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : PediaPress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book History of Rail Transport in Great Britain written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Phillips
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1399024736
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Great Eastern Railway, The Early History, 1811-1862 written by Charles Phillips and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first of two which covers the history of the Great Eastern Railway and its predecessors from the first proposal for a railway in the eastern counties in 1811 for a railway from Islington to Wallasea Island and Mucking to its absorption into the London and North Eastern Railway under the 1923 Grouping of Railways. This volume covers the period from 1811 up to the formation of the Great Eastern Railway in 1862. The history is the first history of the GER since Cecil J. Allens history of the railway which was first published in 1955 and which has long been out of print. The book makes use of both previously published works on the GER and its predecessors, but also contemporary documents such as the Directors reports to shareholders of the Eastern Counties Railway, timetables, reports in local and national newspapers as well as extracts from selected peoples' diaries. Some of which were not easily available to Allen when he wrote his history of the GER. Incorporating these other sources means the book sheds new light on the Railways history. The book is intended for anyone who is either interested in railways and particularly the Great Eastern Railway and the railways of the east of England, but also for anyone who is interested in general in the history of that part of England.
Author : Anthony Dawson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445667819
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book The Early Railways of Leeds written by Anthony Dawson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully illustrated, this book by railway historian Anthony Dawson will explore how the railways came to Leeds.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book Professional Papers of the Corps of R. Engineers written by and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 424 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.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Locomotive News and Railway Contractor written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. W. Skempton
Publisher : Mansell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book British Civil Engineering, 1640-1840 written by A. W. Skempton and published by Mansell. This book was released on 1987 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. D. Collison Black
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107475287
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Economic Thought and the Irish Question 1817–1870 written by R. D. Collison Black and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1960, this book presents a discussion of the relationship between economic theory and economic policy in relation to nineteenth-century Irish history. The text focuses on the period 1816-70 and covers a variety of areas, including the land system, absentee landlords, the poor law, private enterprise, free trade, public works, and emigration. A bibliography is included and detailed notes are incorporated throughout. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Irish history, British foreign policy and economic theory.
Author : Robert Dennis Collison Black
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Economic Thought and the Irish Question 1817-1970 written by Robert Dennis Collison Black and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1960 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Duncan Gager
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228023157
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Slow Train to Arcadia written by Duncan Gager and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2024-11-12 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railway commuting is today a mundane and routine necessity, yet for the Victorians it was a novel experience. It opened up new possibilities of living at a remove from the crowded urban centre while staying connected to its places of work. Commuting helped transform London’s urban landscape, as the compact city of Dickens’s London gave way to the suburban sprawl of the British capital in the early twentieth century. Slow Train to Arcadia is a history of London’s suburban railway network from the 1830s to 1921 and its impact on urban mobility. The book charts the relationship between the three main actors in the formation of the suburban railway: the state, the railway companies, and the travelling public. While the railway age came quickly to Victorian Britain, commuting took a slower journey to commonplace status. In the 1840s William Gladstone sought to make railway travel accessible to all, but commuting was experienced differently according to class and gender. Slow Train to Arcadia explains why the democratization of commuting proved to be an elusive goal. Today’s workers are living through a fundamental reversal in the relationship between home and the workplace. For many, a daily commute is being consigned to history, a shift that will have long-term social and economic consequences. Slow Train to Arcadia is a timely exploration of the origins of mass commuting, a similarly transformative period for the daily patterns of working life.
Author : Peter Burman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136745009
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Conserving the Railway Heritage written by Peter Burman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Britain not only invented the main-line railway but has also led the way in it's preservation - not just locomotves and carriages but also the buildings and structures that bear witness to the confidence of railway developers, architects and engineers. This book defines the nature of the railway heritage - from signalboxes, viaducts, tunnels and locomotive depots - and then discusses priorities and the best practice for it's conservation. The subject is a strongly topical one due to current concern over privatization, the effects of planned high-speed rail links and lively debates concerning the role of the enthusiast in railway preservation.
Author : Hubert Pragnell
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1399049445
Total Pages : 282 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 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.
Author : Edward Terence MacDermot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book pt. 1 & 2. 1833-1863 written by Edward Terence MacDermot and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
