Author : William T. Jackman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 35,68 MB
Release : 1962-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780714613260
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Author : Anthony Dawson
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,18 MB
Release : 2020-12-28
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1473899141
What day-to-day life was like for those who traveled and worked on the world’s first intercity railway in early nineteenth-century England. Much has been written about the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, especially how it came into being and the Rainhill Trials, but very little has been said about what happened after the grand opening on 15 September 1830. Drawing on years of research, and practical experience of working with the replica of Stephenson’s Planet at Manchester’s Museum of Science and Industry, this book shows how the Liverpool & Manchester Railway worked in its day-to-day operations, including passenger and goods working, timetabling, signaling, and when things went wrong. Chapters describe what it was like to work and travel on the railway, and study the evolution of passenger accommodation and working and safety practices. Finally the book looks at how the Liverpool & Manchester fits into the wider picture, how its operational practices and rules and regulations became the basis of national practices in 1841.
Author : Beverley Cole
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 29,63 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781856690140
Between 1923 and 1947 the railway poster in Britain was in its heyday. These were the years of the so-called 'Big Four' companies: the Great Western Railway, Southern Railway, London Midland and Scottish Railway, and London and North Eastern Railway. In the competition for passengers, each of the companies developed its own distinctive style of poster advertising. This book contains over 200 of the most striking and innovative designs of the period.
Author : William T. Jackman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 14,53 MB
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0429614365
Published in 1962: In offering this work as a modest contribution to our knowledge of the economic development of England from the standpoint of transportation, the author must say, in the first place that he has endeavoured to adhere rigidly to the subject in hand, withour making deviations into collateral fields
Author : David Turnock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 22,93 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1351958933
Although a great deal has been published on the economic, social and engineering history of nineteenth-century railways, the work of historical geographers has been much less conspicuous. This overview by David Turnock goes a long way towards restoring the balance. It details every important aspect of the railway’s influence on spatial distribution of economic and social change, providing a full account of the nineteenth-century geography of the British Isles seen in the context of the railway. The book reviews and explains the shape of the developing railway network, beginning with the pre-steam railways and connections between existing road and water communications and the new rail lines. The author also discusses the impact of the railways on the patterns of industrial, urban and rural change throughout the century. Throughout, the historical geography of Ireland is treated in equal detail to that of Great Britain.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1158 pages
File Size : 37,43 MB
Release : 1930
Category : Labor unions
ISBN :
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Publisher : London : Allen & Unwin
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 38,35 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Author : Anthony Dawson
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 18,89 MB
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1526763990
The Liverpool & Manchester Railway was Britain’s first mainline, intercity railway; opened in 1830 it was at the cutting edge of railway technology. Engineered by George Stephenson and his team – John Dixon, William Allcard, Joseph Locke – the project faced many obstacles both before and after opening, including local opposition and the choice of motive power, resulting in the Rainhill Trials of 1829. Much of the success of the line can be attributed to the excellence of its engineering but also its fleet of pioneering locomotives built by Robert Stephenson & Co. of Newcastle. This is the story of those locomotives, and the men who worked on them, at a time when the locomotive was still in its infancy. Using extensive archival research, coupled with lessons learned from operating early replica locomotives such as Rocket and Planet, Anthony Dawson explores how the locomotive rapidly developed in response to the demands of the first intercity railway, and some of the technological dead ends along the way.
Author : Chapman Frederick Dendy Marshall
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,5 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Transportation
ISBN :
Author : A. Rupert Hall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 22,18 MB
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 135001799X
The annual collections in the History of Technology series look at the history of technological discovery and change, exploring the relationship of technology to other aspects of life and showing how technological development is affected by the society in which it occurred.
