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The Railway Experience
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Author : Paul Atterbury
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-02-23
The Railway Experience written by Paul Atterbury and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-23 with Transportation categories.
Britain is a country in love with its railway past. Nowhere else do the workhorses of the age of steam exert such a pull; in no other country is the nostalgia for the days when the railways extended to every corner of the kingdom so strong. However, the history of station buildings and signal boxes, steam and diesel engines, goods and postal services, main lines and branch lines is only part of the story told here. As a cherished part of Britain's heritage, it is the impact of the railways on a human level that has truly captured our imagination. In more than 50 photographs, many of which are previously unpublished, Paul Atterbury reveals the people who ran, maintained and used them – the people for whom the railways were a way of life.
The Railway Experience
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Author : Paul Atterbury
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-02-23
The Railway Experience written by Paul Atterbury and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-23 with Transportation categories.
Britain is a country in love with its railway past. Nowhere else do the workhorses of the age of steam exert such a pull; in no other country is the nostalgia for the days when the railways extended to every corner of the kingdom so strong. However, the history of station buildings and signal boxes, steam and diesel engines, goods and postal services, main lines and branch lines is only part of the story told here. As a cherished part of Britain's heritage, it is the impact of the railways on a human level that has truly captured our imagination. In more than 50 photographs, many of which are previously unpublished, Paul Atterbury reveals the people who ran, maintained and used them – the people for whom the railways were a way of life.
Amazing Train Journeys
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Author : Lonely Planet
language : en
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Release Date : 2018-10-01
Amazing Train Journeys written by Lonely Planet and has been published by Lonely Planet this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-01 with Travel categories.
Experience 60 of the world's greatest and most unforgettable train journeys, from classic long-distance trips like Canada's Rocky Mountaineer and Darwin to Adelaide's The Ghan, to little-known gems on regular commuting lines. Each profile contains practical information like ticket options and timetables, plus inspiring photos and illustrated maps.
An Indian Summer Of Steam
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Author : David Maidment
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2016-01-30
An Indian Summer Of Steam written by David Maidment and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-30 with Transportation categories.
An Indian Summer of Steam' is the second volume of David Maidment's 'railway' autobiography, following his first book 'A Privileged Journey', published in xxxx. David was a railway enthusiast who made the hobby his career. After management training on the Western Region, between 1961 and 1964, he became a stationmaster in a Welsh Valley, an Area Manager on the Cardiff _ Swansea main line and radiating valleys, the South Wales Train Planning Officer, the Head of Productivity Services for the Western Region and subsequently the British Railways Board, before four years from 1982 as Chief Operating Manager of the London Midland Region, the BRB's first Quality & Reliability Manager in 1986, and finally British Rail's Head of Safety Policy after the Clapham Junction train accident, until privatisation.rn This experience led to a number of years as an international railway safety consultant, and, as a result of an encounter on an Indian railway station during a business trip abroad, to found the 'Railway Children' charity to support street children living on the rail and bus stations of India, East Africa and the UK, described in 2012 by an officer of the United Nations Human Rights Commission as the largest charity in the world working exclusively for street children. All this is the background to the descriptions the author gives of the last years of steam and his many journeys and experiences during his training in South Wales and the South West, his travels all over BR from 1962 until the end of steam in 1968, his search for steam in France, East and West Germany and China and the steam specials in Britain, France, Germany and China after the demise of regular steam working. The book includes over 100 black and white and 100 colour photos, most taken by the author during his travels, and nearly forty pages of logs of locomotive performance in Britain and the continent. rn All royalties from the book are being donated by the author to the charity he founded, a brief description of which is included in the last chapter of the book.
Gricing
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Author : Carl Wilson
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-07-10
Gricing written by Carl Wilson and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-10 with categories.
Railways and train spotters Jim, but not as we know them. An antidote to bucolic railway rambles, sacred cows served up as mince 'n' tatties. From the railway sublime to the railway as a whole sewer full of snouts - Gricing is not a rose tinted tale written by an old engineman. Poets, vicars, villains, folk songs about runaway trains and railway heroes, the 6.05 special, railway children, smoke at 1000 a puff, the Maginot line, and Chattanooga Choo-choo, room for them all, and more, in this personal view of the railway and its influence on, culture, language, and modern life. Connections, which ones we make and the ones we don't, trains of thought trundling across the last 200 years of railway landscape, culture, and society - and over 100 lovely photos of engines great and small on the main lines and branch lines of our railway network and heritage railways."
A Treatise On Railways Or Railway Experience And Observations
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1854
A Treatise On Railways Or Railway Experience And Observations written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1854 with categories.
The Railway Adventures
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Author : Vicki Pipe
language : en
Publisher: September Publishing
Release Date : 2018-10-16
The Railway Adventures written by Vicki Pipe and has been published by September Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-16 with Travel categories.
Railway revelations and brilliant new trips. The railways are one of our finest engineering legacies - a web of routes connecting people to each other and to a vast network of world-class attractions. It is also the best route to enjoying the landscape of Great Britain. Within these pages Vicki Pipe and Geoff Marshall from All the Stations (YouTube transport experts and survivors of a crowd-funded trip to visit all the stations in the UK) help you discover the hidden stories that lie behind branch lines, as well as meeting the people who fix the engines and put the trains to bed. Embark on unknown routes, disembark at unfamiliar stations, explore new places and get to know the communities who keep small stations and remote lines alive. Please note this is a fixed-format ebook with colour images and may not be well-suited for older e-readers.
Railway Experiences
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Railway Experiences written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Railroads categories.
The Great Railway Bazaar
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Author : Paul Theroux
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2006-06-01
The Great Railway Bazaar written by Paul Theroux and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-01 with Travel categories.
The acclaimed author recounts his epic journey across Europe and Asia in this international bestselling classic of travel literature: “Compulsive reading” (Graham Greene). In 1973, Paul Theroux embarked on a four-month journey by train from the United Kingdom through Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. In The Great Railway Bazaar, he records in vivid detail and penetrating insight the many fascinating incidents, adventures, and encounters of his grand, intercontinental tour. Asia's fabled trains—the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Mandalay Express, the Trans-Siberian Express—are the stars of a journey that takes Theroux on a loop eastbound from London's Victoria Station to Tokyo Central, then back from Japan on the Trans-Siberian. Brimming with Theroux's signature humor and wry observations, this engrossing chronicle is essential reading for both the ardent adventurer and the armchair traveler.
Practical Railway Engineering 2nd Edition
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Author : Bonnett Clifford Frederick
language : en
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Release Date : 2005-06-08
Practical Railway Engineering 2nd Edition written by Bonnett Clifford Frederick and has been published by Imperial College Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-08 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This textbook covers the very wide spectrum of all aspects of railway engineering for all engineering disciplines, in a 'broad brush' way giving a good overall knowledge of what is involved in planning, designing, constructing and maintaining a railway. It covers all types of railway systems including light rail and metro as well as main line. The first edition has proved very popular both with students new to railways and with practicing engineers who need to work in this newly expanding area.In the second edition, the illustrations have been improved and brought up to date, particularly with the introduction of 30 colour pages which include many newly taken photographs. The text has been reviewed for present day accuracy and, where necessary, has been modified or expanded to include reference to recent trends or developments. New topics include automatic train control, level crossings, dot matrix indicators, measures for the mobility impaired, reinforced earth structures, air conditioning, etc. Recent railway experience, both technical and political, has also been reflected in the commentary.