Great Western Steam in the West Country
Author : Mike Arlett
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 16,6 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Locomotives
ISBN : 9780860934806
Author : Mike Arlett
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 16,6 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Locomotives
ISBN : 9780860934806
Author : 4588
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 24,89 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Locomotives
ISBN : 9780851532882
Author : Andrew Roden
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,66 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Railroad companies
ISBN : 9781781310151
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 : Allen Jackson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,52 MB
Release : 2017-04-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445670127
A lavishly illustrated survey of a wide range of GWR stations.
Author : Keith Widdowson
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 35,98 MB
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0750999772
In mid-1964, Keith Widdowson got wind that the Western Region was hell-bent on being the first to eliminate the steam locomotive on its tracks by December 1965. The 17-year-old hurriedly homed in on train services still in the hands of GWR steam power, aiming to catch runs with the last examples before their premature annihilation. The Great Western Steam Retreat recalls Widdowson's teenage exploits, soundtracked by hits from the Beatles, the Kinks and the Rolling Stones, throughout the Western Region and former Great Western Railway lines. He documents the extreme disorder that resulted from that decision, paying tribute to the train crews who managed to meet demanding timings in the face of declining cleanliness, the poor quality of coal and the major problem of recruiting both footplate and shed staff. This book completes the author's Steam Chase series and provides a snapshot into the comradery that characterised the final years of steam alongside the long-gone journeys that can never be recreated.
Author : Allen Jackson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 50,22 MB
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1398109649
The latest volume in Allen Jackson's series examining the locomotives of the Great Western Railway. Profusely illustrated throughout.
Author : Michael S. Welch
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 23,26 MB
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9781854143273
The Great Western Railway promoted its holiday lines with enterprise and imagination. Using quality images, this album looks back at the last years of steam on the former Great Western routes in Devon and Cornwall which retained much of their distinctive atmosphere well into the 1960s.
Author : John Payne
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 28,51 MB
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 190849350X
The English West Country is a land of exceptional landscapes: many miles of wild, unspoilt coastline and vast expanses of wild moorland; great cities such as Exeter, Plymouth, Bath and Bristol; and market towns, villages and hamlets. Farming, mining, quarrying, fishing and trade are the traditional industries of the counties of Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall. On one level, the West Country is the most English of all English regions, home of clotted cream, thatch, church spires, folksong, hobby horses and Cecil Sharp. Yet the area was trading with Mediterranean Europe before the Romans. For many years Bristol was the centre of the slave trade, and many of its great mansions were built on the proceeds of slavery. Great swathes of land in Dorset, Wiltshire and Devon are still used by the military and are off-bounds to visitors. And within the West Country is the special case of Celtic Cornwall, and the even more remote Isles of Scilly. People lived in the West Country long before Britain, or England, were invented. From the great stone circles of Avebury and Stonehenge in Wiltshire to the menhirs of Cornwall, and the wealth of prehistoric remains on the Isles of Scilly, this has always been an inhabited landscape, crafted by men and women working closely with nature and natural forces. John Payne explores this culturally rich and varied region, revealing many facets of its distinctive and much-loved identity.
Author : Brian Reading
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 49,69 MB
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1398100013
With stunning previously unpublished photographs documenting the end of steam railways of the G.W.R.
Author : Allen Jackson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 50,97 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445693038
A fascinating and lavishly illustrated guide to this iconic Great Western Railway locomotive Manor Class.