Author : Gordon Suggitt
Publisher : Countryside Books (GB)
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 13,35 MB
Release : 2003-10-01
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9781853068010
Traces the history of the county's railway lines from their opening in the 19th century, their heyday around the turn of the century and, in many cases, their closure in the 20th century.
Author : Mark Jones
Publisher : Countryside Books (GB)
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 16,10 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9781846741210
Author : Trevor Yorke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 32,84 MB
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1784423726
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 : John Minnis
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 36,51 MB
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1781317739
The beautifully restored St Pancras Station is a magisterial example of Britain’s finest Victorian architecture. Like the viaducts at Belah and Crumlin, cathedral-like stations such as Nottingham Victoria and spectacular railway hotels like Glasgow St Enoch's, it stands proud as testament to Britain's architectural heritage. In this stunning book, John Minnis reveals Britain's finest railway architecture. From the most cavernous engine sheds, like Old Oak Common, through the eccentric country halts on the Tollesbury line and the gantries of the Liverpool Overhead Railway, to the soaring viaducts of Belah and Cumlin, Britain’s Lost Railways offers a sweeping celebration of our railway heritage. The selection of images and the removable facsimile memorabilia, including tickets, posters, timetables and maps, allows the reader to step into that past, serving as a testimony to an age of ingenuity and ambition when the pride we invested in our railways was reflected in the grandeur of the architecture we built for them.
Author : Gordon Suggitt
Publisher : Countryside Books (GB)
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,31 MB
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9781853068690
Traces the history of the area's railway lines from their opening in the 19th century, their heyday around the turn of the century and, in many cases, their closure in the 20th century.
Author : Geoffrey Kingscott
Publisher : Countryside Books (GB)
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,47 MB
Release : 2006-01
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9781853069918
Presented in an illustrated format, this book traces the history of the area's railway lines from their opening in the 19th century and, in many cases, their closure in the 20th century.
Author : Thomas Normington
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 35,77 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Author : Geoffrey Kingscott
Publisher : Countryside Books (GB)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,68 MB
Release : 2007-11
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9781846740428
Traces the history of the railway lines in the county including branches of the Great Central Railway and Ashover Light Railway, from their opening in the mid 19th century and, in many cases, their closure in the 20th century. This book describes the reasons for their construction and for their subsequent closure. It also includes illustrations.
Author : David Smith
Publisher : Mortons Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,67 MB
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Transportation
ISBN :
The first railway chemical laboratory was opened in 1864 by the London & North Western Railway at Crewe, and the last ones lost their direct link to the rail industry on their privatisation in 1996. Whatever their expertise, every railway chemist or 'stink' has been asked the same question: "What do you actually do"? That is precisely the question this book attempts to answer. It covers many aspects of the work, from a BR chemist going to San Francisco to blow up a water melon to declaring an empty coal wagon a confined space; from whitewashing a passenger train, in service, in a couple of seconds to questioning, on chemical grounds, the mental state of the chairman of British Rail; from gassing weevils to setting fire to a canal in Derby. British Railway Stinks tells the unusual, astonishing and sometimes downright hilarious story of the railway 'nuts' who decided what exactly the 'wrong kind of leaves' were.
Author : Martyn Hilbert
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 28,59 MB
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1398114723
The history of the railways in Lancashire from 1978 to the present, from the end of the BR regional era, through sectorisation to privatisation.
