Book Description
A lavishly illustrated title from acknowledged railway expert Colin G. Maggs, presenting the story of Somerset's branch lines.
Author : Colin Maggs
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 14,33 MB
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445625644
A lavishly illustrated title from acknowledged railway expert Colin G. Maggs, presenting the story of Somerset's branch lines.
Author : Colin G. Maggs
Publisher : Branch Lines of
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,77 MB
Release : 2011-03
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781848683471
A lavishly illustrated title from acknowledged railway expert Colin G. Maggs, presenting the story of Berkshire's branch lines.
Author : IAN. HARRISON
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 46,49 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
ISBN : 9781911038528
Author : Richard Harman
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 23,74 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9781899889402
Author : Colin Maggs
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 23,93 MB
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445612348
A lavishly illustrated title from acknowledged railway expert Colin G. Maggs, presenting the story of Dorset’s branch lines.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 15,80 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Author : David Wright
Publisher : Crowood
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,77 MB
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1785000209
This comprehensive book is aimed at all those railway modellers who wish to create a realistic model of a branch line. First of all it examines the origins, developments and future of branch lines in Britain and then provides useful insights into how to select a suitable branch line to model. It discusses in detail how to create scenic realism and an appropriate setting for the model, with reference to the landscape, the infrastructure, the lineside and the use of authentic colour. Detailed information about a selection of several real, and some fictitious, branch lines are presented in order to inspire the modeller and help him to select a suitable subject to faithfully recreate. Finally, track plans and superb drawings of the whole scene are shown which provides the modeller with a visual intepretation of what the completed model should look like. Superbly illustrated with 71 drawings and diagrams and 307 digital colour and black & white photographs.
Author : Paul D Shannon
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,7 MB
Release : 2023-12-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1399089919
This book examines in words and pictures the network of British branch lines and other secondary routes that survived the mass closures of the 1960s. While nearly 4,000 route miles were lost between 1963 and 1970, the cuts were less severe than they might have been. Some lines were reprieved because of their social importance, even though they would never pay their way in purely commercial terms. They included some lengthy rural routes, such as those serving the Far North of Scotland, Central Wales and the Cumbrian Coast, as well as some urban backwaters such as Romford to Upminster and the St Albans Abbey branch. As the 1970s progressed, closures became scarce, but cost-cutting measures included the singling of some lines as well as scaled-down stations and simplified signalling. Yet even today, some pockets of traditional operation survive. Mechanical signal boxes still control many hundreds of miles across the network, in areas as diverse as West Cornwall, East Lincolnshire and South West Scotland. This book also celebrates several reopened and new lines, ranging from the major Borders Railway project in Scotland to the Stansted Airport and Barking Riverside branches in South East England - making the point that the branch line concept is far from dead.
Author : Oswald Stevens Nock
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,48 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Author : Vic Mitchell
Publisher : Middleton Press (MD)
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 30,69 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9781873793909