Discovering Lost Railways
Author : Frederick George Cockman
Publisher :
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 35,63 MB
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9780852632314
Author : Frederick George Cockman
Publisher :
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 35,63 MB
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9780852632314
Author : Paul Atterbury
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,15 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Railroad tracks
ISBN : 9780749563714
Author : Julian Holland
Publisher : Collins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,41 MB
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9780008139537
Exploring Britain s Lost Railways gives the historical background to over 50 lost railway lines, along with descriptions of the route today for walking and cycling."
Author : Nigel Welbourn
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 48,50 MB
Release : 2023-02-16
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1399096184
Many readers will be familiar with Nigel Welbourn’s long running series of books, covering lost railways in Britain and Ireland. This new book Lost Railways of the World is the latest by this author on the subject of disused railways. The material for this volume has been collected and researched over a period of almost fifty years of world travel by the author. Informative text records the fortunes of the world’s lost railways and every country with significant disused railways is included. Lost railways are a unifying theme, being found throughout the world, from the hottest African desert to the coldest steppes of Russia. The book has a surprisingly British flavor as historically many railways throughout the world used British equipment and operating practices. On his first trip in the 1970s the author discovered British signaling equipment in Europe. In 2020 he discovered the same firms’ equipment in South America. The world’s top ten lost lines are listed, from the seven-mile-long sea bridge on a line that ran through the Florida Keys, to the rugged mountain splendor of the Khyber Pass Railway. Some of the oldest, largest, longest, most northerly, southerly, expensive, crookedest, steepest, highest, lowest and most notorious lost railways are included. Quirky and other unique tales from lost railways are included, such as the disappearing phantom bridge, a line destroyed by molten lava, to one that sank under the sea, another that conveyed giant turtles, to a memorial to a brave railway elephant. The author also visited remote areas of Argentina and provides more information on the mysterious disappearance of the ex-Lynton & Barnstaple Railway locomotive Lew. A large number of the 300 color illustrations have not been published before, maps and stories from around the world will delight not only the railway enthusiast, but appeal to a wider cadre of readers with an interest in nostalgia, history, geography and travel. To some the book will be an informative source of information, to others it is written in a way that highlights the most amazing lost railways in the world, but either way it is a fascinating and unique book.
Author : Julian Holland
Publisher : Collins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,72 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9780007505418
Exploring Britain’s Lost Railways gives the historical background to 50 lost railway lines, along with details of the route today and clear directions for the walker and the cyclist.
Author : Trevor Yorke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 32,54 MB
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1784423696
The drastic railway closures of the 1960s led to the slow decay and re-purposing of hundreds of miles of railway infrastructure. Though these buildings and apparatus are now ghosts of their former selves, countless clues to our railway heritage still remain in the form of embankments, cuttings, tunnels, converted or tumbledown wayside buildings, and old railway furniture such as signal posts. Many disused routes are preserved in the form of cycle tracks and footpaths. This colourfully illustrated book helps you to decipher the fascinating features that remain today and to understand their original functions, demonstrating how old routes can be traced on maps, outlining their permanent stamp on the landscape, and teaching you how to form a mental picture of a line in its heyday.
Author : Julian Holland
Publisher : Waverley Books Limited
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 16,72 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9781902407807
Author : Anthony Lambert
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 36,88 MB
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1781318530
From the great cathedral-like railways stations of the steam age to obscure lines built through spectacular landscapes to open up countries before the advent of motorised road transport, this book is a celebration of our lost railway heritage and the lines that can no longer be travelled. Through stunning images, Lost Railway Journeys from Around the World evokes the romance and drama of these journeys, taking the reader as close as they can possibly get to this lost world of dining cars, sleeping cars, station porters and international rail travel. Organised by continent, all of these routes have stories to tell and the lost journeys are captured in the old postcards and posters that accompany photographs drawn from collections and archives across the world.
Author : Alasdair Wham
Publisher : Gwasg y Bwthyn
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 46,60 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9781872350349
The latest in the 'Lost Railways' series. It tells the history of these railways, walks and industrial archaeology after the last train departed and their history since closing.
Author : Nigel Welbourn
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,77 MB
Release : 2023-02-16
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1399096206
Many readers will be familiar with Nigel Welbourn’s long running series of books, covering lost railways in Britain and Ireland. This new book Lost Railways of the World is the latest by this author on the subject of disused railways. The material for this volume has been collected and researched over a period of almost fifty years of world travel by the author. Informative text records the fortunes of the world’s lost railways and every country with significant disused railways is included. Lost railways are a unifying theme, being found throughout the world, from the hottest African desert to the coldest steppes of Russia. The book has a surprisingly British flavor as historically many railways throughout the world used British equipment and operating practices. On his first trip in the 1970s the author discovered British signaling equipment in Europe. In 2020 he discovered the same firms’ equipment in South America. The world’s top ten lost lines are listed, from the seven-mile-long sea bridge on a line that ran through the Florida Keys, to the rugged mountain splendor of the Khyber Pass Railway. Some of the oldest, largest, longest, most northerly, southerly, expensive, crookedest, steepest, highest, lowest and most notorious lost railways are included. Quirky and other unique tales from lost railways are included, such as the disappearing phantom bridge, a line destroyed by molten lava, to one that sank under the sea, another that conveyed giant turtles, to a memorial to a brave railway elephant. The author also visited remote areas of Argentina and provides more information on the mysterious disappearance of the ex-Lynton & Barnstaple Railway locomotive Lew. A large number of the 300 color illustrations have not been published before, maps and stories from around the world will delight not only the railway enthusiast, but appeal to a wider cadre of readers with an interest in nostalgia, history, geography and travel. To some the book will be an informative source of information, to others it is written in a way that highlights the most amazing lost railways in the world, but either way it is a fascinating and unique book.