Book Description
A portrait of Glasgow’s public transport history from the nineteenth century through to the present day.
Author : Michael Meighan
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 15,73 MB
Release : 2024-04-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1398115835
A portrait of Glasgow’s public transport history from the nineteenth century through to the present day.
Author : Museum of Transport and Technology (Glasgow, Scotland)
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,11 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Street-railroads
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Author : Glasgow (Scotland). Corporation. Transport Department
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,55 MB
Release : 1934
Category : Glasgow (Scotland)
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Author : Eric J. Graham
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 20,80 MB
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1788853903
The period 1650 to 1790 was such a turbulent one for Scottish seafarers that much of this fast-flowing narrative reads like Treasure Island. Colourful characters abound in a story teeming with incident and excitement: John Paul Jones descends upon the Scottish coast creating widespread panic; press gangs prowl the coastal towns; wartime conditions turn merchantmen into privateers fighting the French, the Spanish and the American Colonists – almost anyone flying a different flag; quaintly named vessels like The Provoked Cheesemaker are on the lookout for trouble. And the stakes were high. Glasgow became wealthy through the tobacco trade. Glasgow merchantmen could beat the English ships and sail to Chesapeake Bay in record time. Eric Graham traces the development of the Scottish marine and its institutions during a formative period, when state intervention and warfare at sea in the pursuit of merchantilist goals largely determined the course of events. He charts Scotland's frustrated attempts to join England in the Atlantic economy and so secure her prosperity – an often bitter relationship that culminated in the Darien Disaster. In the years that followed, maritime affairs were central to the move to embrace the full incorporating Act of 1707. After 1707, Scottish maritime aspirations flourished under the protection of the British Navigation Acts and the windfalls of the endemic warfare at sea.
Author : Gordon D. Webster
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,72 MB
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0750957204
The city of Glasgow, formerly one of the largest industrial centres in the world, was once responsible for building about one-quarter of the world's railway locomotives. This was complemented by a massive urban railway network: the second largest in the UK. However, the Beeching Report of 1963 inevitably took its toll on Glasgow. This book examines the changing face of Glasgow's railways ever since that infamous report, starting with the period of rationalisation and industrial decline that followed. It also explores the revival enjoyed in the last few decades, with lines reopened and modern rolling stock introduced. Furthermore, with Glasgow hosting the 2014 Commonwealth Games, it looks at the emphasis being placed on the railway as further development work takes place.
Author : David Turnock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 10,78 MB
Release : 2005-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521892292
This is the first book to take a comprehensive view of the historical geography of Scotland since the Union. The period is divided into sections separated by the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War, and each section offers a general view followed by detailed studies giving a balanced coverage of regional and urban-rural criteria, and the economic infrastructure. The book contains a number of original researches and Dr Turnock attempts to set the Scottish experience in a framework of general ideas on modernisation.
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Publisher :
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 27,42 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Transportation
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Author : Michael Meighan
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445618869
A new history of Glasgow tracing the growth of the city from prehistoric days to its rise as one of the Great Victorian cities.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 23,99 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Glasgow (Scotland)
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Author : Peter Waller
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,94 MB
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1914079558
The second of two volumes covering the history of tramcar operation in Glasgow. The book narrates the story of the city's impressive network from the immediate post-war years, when the system was regarded as one of the most secure in the country, through the 1950s, when a change of policy initially saw a limited conversion policy instituted before complete abandonment was adopted, to the early 1960s when the final services were operated. This volume focuses on locations in the northern half of the city including City Centre, Clydebank, Keppochhill Road and University.