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Author : John Neville Greaves
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909757325
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (573 download)
Download or read book Sir Edward Watkin 1819-1901: the Last of the Railway Kings written by John Neville Greaves and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Hodgkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781898937494
Total Pages : 713 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (374 download)
Download or read book The Second Railway King written by David Hodgkins and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Last of the Railway Kings written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. F. Bosher
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1450059635
Total Pages : 839 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Imperial Vancouver Island written by J. F. Bosher and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 839 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During the century 1850-1950 Vancouver Island attracted Imperial officers and other Imperials from India, the British Isles, and elsewhere in the Empire. Victoria was the main British port on the north-west Pacific Coast for forty years before the city of Vancouver was founded in 1886 to be the coastal terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway. These two coastal cities were historically and geographically different. The Island joined Canada in 1871 and thirty-five years later the Royal Navy withdrew from Esquimalt, but Island communities did not lose their Imperial character until the 1950s."--P. [4] of cover.
Author : Colin Divall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134808593
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Transport Policy: Learning Lessons from History written by Colin Divall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The key aim of this volume is to demonstrate ways in which an understanding of history can be used to inform present-day transport and mobility policies. This is not to say that history repeats itself, or that every contemporary transport dilemma has an historical counterpart: rather, the contributors to this book argue that in many contexts of transport planning a better understanding of the context and consequences of past decisions and processes could lead to more effective policy decisions. Collectively the authors explore the ways in which the methods and approaches of historical research may be applied to contemporary transport and policy issues across a wide range of transport modes and contexts. By linking two bodies of academic research that for the most part remain separate this volume helps to inform current transport and mobility policies and to stimulate innovative new research that links studies of both past and present mobilities.
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 : Christian Wolmar
Publisher : Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1848872534
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)
Download or read book The Subterranean Railway written by Christian Wolmar and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Victorian era, London's Underground has had played a vital role in the daily life of generations of Londoners. Christian Wolmar celebrates the vision and determination of the 19th-century pioneers who made the world's first, and still the largest, underground passenger railway: one of the most impressive engineering achievements in history. From the early days of steam to electrification, via the Underground's contribution to 20th-century industrial design and its role during two world wars, the story comes right up to the present with its sleek, driverless trains, and the wrangles over the future of the system. This book reveals London's hidden wonder in all its glory, and shows how the railway beneath the streets helped create the city we know today.
Author : Stephen Halliday
Publisher : F+W Media, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1446356655
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (463 download)
Download or read book Amazing & Extraordinary London Underground Facts written by Stephen Halliday and published by F+W Media, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating and useful reference to the history of the London Underground that reveals new insights into the history of the iconic transport system - the perfect gift for commuters, tourists and railway enthusiasts alike. For anyone who has lived, worked, visited or even passed through London, the tube is one of the iconic and defining characteristics of the city. Amazing & Extraordinary London Underground Facts takes you from the famous roundel symbol and standing on the right of the escalators, to the instantly recognizable and hugely influential route map. This title helps to discover the tales of the building of the first lines in the mid-nineteenth century and the steam trains that ran along them, the ever expanding network of routes, the abandoned ghost stations, the notorious incidents and colorful characters that have all played a part in the amazing and extraordinary history of the London Underground.
Author : Andrew Smith
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773575006
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book British Businessmen and Canadian Confederation written by Andrew Smith and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without pressure from a small but influential group of London financiers, Confederation would not have occurred in 1867, if at all. These financiers supported the unification of the British North American colonies because they believed it would rescue their under-performing investments and keep British North America within the British Empire.
Author : Russell Haywood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317071646
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Railways, Urban Development and Town Planning in Britain: 1948–2008 written by Russell Haywood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical overview of the relationships between planning and railway management and development during the key period in the 20th Century when the railway was in public ownership: 1948-94. It assesses the strength of the relationships when working in collaboration with the private sector. The book then focuses on the interplay between planning and railway since privatization in 1994 and points to best practice for the future in institutional structures and policy development to secure improved outcomes.
Author : James Taylor
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0861933230
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (619 download)
Download or read book Creating Capitalism written by James Taylor and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growth of joint-stock business in Victorian Britain re-evaluated, showing in particular the resistance to it. Winner of the Economic History Society's Best First Monograph award 2009 The emergence of the joint-stock company in nineteenth-century Britain was a culture shock for many Victorians. Though the home of the industrialrevolution, the nation's economy was dominated by the private partnership, seen as the most efficient as well as the most ethical form of business organisation. The large, impersonal company and the rampant speculation it was thought to encourage were viewed with suspicion and downright hostility. This book argues that the existing historiography understates society's resistance to joint-stock enterprise; it employs an eclectic range of sources, fromnewspapers and parliamentary papers to cartoons, novels and plays, to unearth this forgotten economic debate. It explores how the legal system was gradually restructured to facilitate joint-stock enterprise, a process culminatingin the limited liability legislation of the mid-1850s. This has typically been interpreted as evidence for the emergence of new, positive attitudes to speculation and economic growth, but the book demonstrates how traditional outlooks continued to influence legislation, and the way in which economic reforms were driven by political agendas. It shows how debates on the economic culture of nineteenth-century Britain are strikingly relevant to current questions over the ethics of multinational corporations. James Taylor is Senior Lecturer in British History at Lancaster University.
Author : David Long
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752462369
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book The Little Book of the London Underground written by David Long and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2010-12-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did You Know? In 1884 the Circle Line opened and was described in The Times as 'a form of mild torture which no person would undergo if he could conveniently help it.' According to one psychologist, Tube commuters can experience greater levels of stress than a police officer facing a rioting mob or even a fighter pilot going into a dogfight. Underground trains have only twice been used to transport deceased people in coffins: William Gladstone and Dr Barnardo. Some of the most bizarre items handed in to lost property include 250lb of sultanas, a 14ft canoe, a child's garden slide, a harpoon gun, a pith helmet, an artificial leg, someone's brother's ashes and a sealed box containing three dead bats. WITH well over a billion passengers a year, more than 250 miles of track, literally hundreds of different stations and a history stretching back at least 160 years, the world's oldest underground railway might seem familiar, but how well do you actually know it? This book offers a feast of Tube-based trivia for travellers and lovers of London alike.
Author : Wigan (England). Free Public Library. Reference Dept
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalogue of Books written by Wigan (England). Free Public Library. Reference Dept and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Howard L. Malchow
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804718073
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Gentlemen Capitalists written by Howard L. Malchow and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Stanford University Press classic.
Author : Peter J Kitson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000558940
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part I Vol 2 written by Peter J Kitson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods.
Author : Terry Gourvish
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134165447
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book The Official History of Britain and the Channel Tunnel written by Terry Gourvish and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commissioned by the Cabinet Office and using hitherto untapped British Government records, this book presents an in-depth analysis of the successful project of 1986-94. This is a vivid portrayal of the complexities of quadripartite decision-making (two countries, plus the public and private sectors), revealing new insights into the role of the British and French Governments in the process. This important book, written by Britain’s leading transport historian, will be essential reading for all those interested in PPPs, British and European economic history and international relations. The building of the Channel Tunnel has been one of Europe’s major projects and a testimony to British-French and public-private sector collaboration. However, Eurotunnel’s current financial crisis provides a sobering backcloth for an examination of the British Government’s long-term flirtation with the project, and, in particular, the earlier Tunnel project in the 1960s and early 1970s, which was abandoned by the British Government in 1975.
Author : Mark Yonge
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 139901854X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Unfinished Lines written by Mark Yonge and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Yonge had, for many years, wanted to write a book about railway projects that were started but never completed. The physical evidence of these works throughout England although rapidly vanishing, can still be seen in places to this day. The reader can view several examples which include viaducts, earthworks, bridges, partially completed tunnels, an abandoned tunnel boring machine and the beginnings of a major London airport. Behind all these tales are stories of intrigue, manipulation, interference by the armed forces and sometimes great sadness brought about by personal ambition and ruin. These remaining assets are in the main, not protected by legislation and are thus at risk of demolition at any time. It is to be hoped that this record of their existence in the 2020s may go a little way towards recording some of our more interesting and neglected features of railway history for the benefit of future generations.
