The Story Of Crossrail
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The Story Of Crossrail
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Author : Christian Wolmar
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-11-01
The Story Of Crossrail written by Christian Wolmar and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-01 with Transportation categories.
The story of an engineering marvel of the twenty-first century, from Britain's bestselling railway writer. Crossrail, first conceived just after the Second World War in the era of Attlee and Churchill, has cost more than £15bn and is expected to serve 200 million passengers annually. From Reading and Heathrow in the west, the Elizabeth line will extend to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east, including 42 kilometres of new tunnels dug under central London. The author sets out the complex and highly political reasons for Crossrail's lengthy gestation, tracing the troubled progress of the concept from the rejection of the first Crossrail bill in the 1990s through the tortuous parliamentary processes that led to the passing of the Crossrail Act of 2008. He also recounts in detail the construction of this astonishing new railway, describing how immense tunnel-boring machines cut through a subterranean world of rock and mud with unparalleled accuracy that ensured none of the buildings overhead were affected. A shrewdly incisive observer of postwar transport policy, Wolmar pays due credit to the remarkable achievement of Crossrail, while analysing in clear-eyed fashion the many setbacks it encountered en route to completion. With a new afterword to mark the opening of Crossrail in 2022.
Crossrail The Whole Story
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Author : Christian Wolmar
language : en
Publisher: Apollo
Release Date : 2022-02-03
Crossrail The Whole Story written by Christian Wolmar and has been published by Apollo this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-03 with Subways categories.
The story of an engineering marvel of the twenty-first century, from Britain's bestselling railway writer. Crossrail, first conceived just after the Second World War in the era of Attlee and Churchill, has cost more than £15bn and is expected to serve 200 million passengers annually. From Reading and Heathrow in the west, the Elizabeth line will extend to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east, including 42 kilometres of new tunnels dug under central London. The author sets out the complex and highly political reasons for Crossrail's lengthy gestation, tracing the troubled progress of the concept from the rejection of the first Crossrail bill in the 1990s through the tortuous parliamentary processes that led to the passing of the Crossrail Act of 2008. He also recounts in detail the construction of this astonishing new railway, describing how immense tunnel-boring machines cut through a subterranean world of rock and mud with unparalleled accuracy that ensured none of the buildings overhead were affected. A shrewdly incisive observer of postwar transport policy, Wolmar pays due credit to the remarkable achievement of Crossrail, while analysing in clear-eyed fashion the many setbacks it encountered en route to completion. With a new afterword to mark the opening of Crossrail in 2022.
Breakthrough
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Author : Sarah Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Breakthrough written by Sarah Allen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
Journey To Crossrail
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Author : Stephen Halliday
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2018-11-26
Journey To Crossrail written by Stephen Halliday and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-26 with Transportation categories.
Why did London have to wait so long for a main-line railway beneath its streets? For a few years in the mid-nineteenth century, Isambard Kingdom Brunel's broad-gauge Great Western trains ran from Reading to Faringdon. Now, after many false starts, his vision is being realised as the Elizabeth Line prepares to carry passengers from Reading to the City once again, and beyond to Essex and Kent, using engineering that would have earned the admiration of the greatest Victorian engineers. London historian Stephen Halliday presents an engaging discussion of Crossrail's fascinating origins and the heroic engineering that made it all possible.
The Subterranean Railway
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Author : Christian Wolmar
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Release Date : 2009-10-01
The Subterranean Railway written by Christian Wolmar and has been published by Atlantic Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-01 with History categories.
Since the Victorian era, London's Underground has had played a vital role in the daily life of generations of Londoners. In The Subterranean Railway, Christian Wolmar celebrates the vision and determination of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made the world's first, and still the largest, underground passenger railway: one of the most impressive engineering achievements in history. From the early days of steam to electrification, via the Underground's contribution to twentieth-century industrial design and its role during two world wars, the story comes right up to the present with its sleek, driverless trains and the wrangles over the future of the system. The Subterranean Railway reveals London's hidden wonder in all its glory and shows how the railway beneath the streets helped create the city we know today.
Railways
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Author : Christian Wolmar
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-12-12
Railways written by Christian Wolmar and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-12 with Transportation categories.
From Britain's most popular railway historian, a concise, authoritative and fast-paced telling of how the railways changed the world. The arrival of the railways in the first half of the nineteenth century and their subsequent spread across every one of the world's continents acted as a spur for economic growth and social change on an extraordinary scale. The 'iron road' stimulated innovation in engineering and architecture, enabled people and goods to move around the world more quickly than ever before, and played a critical role in warfare as well as in the social and economic spheres. Christian Wolmar describes the emergence of modern railways in both Britain and the USA in the 1830s, and elsewhere in the following decade. He charts the surge in railway investment plans in Britain in the early 1840s and the ensuing 'railway mania' (which created the backbone of today's railway network), and the unstoppable spread of the railways across Europe, America and Asia. Above all, he assesses the global impact of a technology that, arguably, had the most transformative impact on human society of any before the coming of the Internet, and which, as it approaches two centuries of existence, continues to play a key role in human society in the twenty-first century. 'A lucid and engaging account of the far-reaching effects that trains have had upon society' The Railway & Canal Historical Society
The Tunnel Through Time
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Author : Gillian Tindall
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2016-09-01
The Tunnel Through Time written by Gillian Tindall and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-01 with History categories.
Crossrail, the ‘Elizabeth’ line, is simply the latest way of traversing a very old east–west route through what was once countryside to the city and out again. Visiting Stepney, Liverpool Street, Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street, Gillian Tindall traces the course of many of these historical journeys across time as well as space. The Tunnel Through Time uncovers the lives of those who walked where many of our streets still run. These people spoke the names of ancient farms, manors and slums that now belong to our squares and tube stations. They endured the cycle of the seasons as we do; they ate, drank, worked and laughed in what are essentially the same spaces we occupy today. As Tindall expertly shows, destruction and renewal are a constant rhythm in London’s story.
The Black Locomotive
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Author : Rian Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2021-08-05
The Black Locomotive written by Rian Hughes and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-05 with Fiction categories.
London is built from concrete, steel and the creative urge. Old technology gives way to the new. Progress is inevitable - but is it more fragile than its inhabitants realise? A strange anomaly is uncovered in the new top-secret Crossrail extension being built under Buckingham Palace. It is an archeological puzzle, one that may transform our understanding of history - and the origins of London itself. And if our modern world falls, we may have to turn to the technology of the past in order to save our future.
A Journey Through Time
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Author : GRAHAM. SPURR
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-03-15
A Journey Through Time written by GRAHAM. SPURR and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-15 with Excavations (Archaeology) categories.
Has the Thames always looked like it does today, confined to the same course, muddy, brackish and tidal? Through analysis of thearchaeology investigated along the Crossrail south-east line, which diverts from the main west-east route across the Thamesfloodplain from Stepney Green to Abbey Wood, this book tells the story of the lower Thames throughout the Holocene (fromc 10,000 years ago to the present). At six sites along the route, geoarchaeologists were called in to assist with understanding the deep floodplain sediments, theenvironments they reflect and how, if at all, the Thames has affected (and been affected by) the people who lived along its banksthrough the ages. Introducing the techniques and theories used in geoarchaeology, this book uses the platform of the Crossrail sitesto understand the wider, lower Thames area from Erith to Greenwich, Canning Town to Hornchurch. The Thames has suffered thefate of many other river systems across southern Britain, but the story of its transformation is remarkable and relevant today.
Cathedrals Of Steam
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Author : Christian Wolmar
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2020-11-05
Cathedrals Of Steam written by Christian Wolmar and has been published by Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-05 with Transportation categories.
'Fascinating' 'Books of the Year', Financial Times 'London's twelve great rail termini are the epic survivors of the Victorian age... Wolmar brings them to life with the knowledge of an expert and the panache of a connoisseur.' Simon Jenkins 'A wonderful tour, full of vivid incident and surprising detail.' Simon Bradley London hosts twelve major railway stations, more than any other city in the world. They range from the grand and palatial, such as King's Cross and Paddington, to the modest and lesser known, such as Fenchurch Street and Cannon Street. These monuments to the age of the train are the hub of London's transport system and their development, decline and recent renewal have determined the history of the capital in many ways. Built between 1836 and 1899 by competing private train companies seeking to outdo one another, the construction of these terminuses caused tremendous upheaval and had a widespread impact on their local surroundings. What were once called 'slums' were demolished, green spaces and cemeteries were concreted over, and vast marshalling yards, engine sheds and carriage depots sprung up in their place. In a compelling and dramatic narrative, Christian Wolmar traces the development of these magnificent cathedrals of steam, provides unique insights into their history, with many entertaining anecdotes, and celebrates the recent transformation of several of these stations into wonderful blends of the old and the new.