Author: Francis Whishaw
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 674

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Author: Andrew Dow
Publisher: Wharncliffe
ISBN: 1473822572
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 498

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Never before has a comprehensive history been written of the track used by railways of all gauges, tramways, and cliff railways, in Great Britain. And yet it was the development of track, every bit as much as the development of the locomotive, that has allowed our railways to provide an extraordinarily wide range of services. Without the track of today, with its laser-guided maintenance machines, the TGV and the Eurostar could not cruise smoothly at 272 feet per second, nor could 2,000-ton freight trains carry a wide range of materials, or suburban railways, over and under the ground, serve our great cities in a way that roads never could. ??Andrew Dow's account of the development of track, involving deep research in the papers of professional institutions as well as rare books, company records and personal accounts, paints a vivid picture of development from primitive beginnings to modernity. ??The book contains nearly 200 specially-commissioned drawings as well as many photographs of track in its very many forms since the appearance of the steam locomotive in 1804. Included are chapters on electrified railways, and on the development of mechanised maintenance, which revolutionised the world of the platelayer.

Author: George Drysdale Dempsey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Author: Francis WHISHAW
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 664

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Publisher: PediaPress
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 99

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Author: Charles Phillips
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 1399024736
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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This book is the first of two which covers the history of the Great Eastern Railway and its predecessors from the first proposal for a railway in the eastern counties in 1811 for a railway from Islington to Wallasea Island and Mucking to its absorption into the London and North Eastern Railway under the 1923 Grouping of Railways. This volume covers the period from 1811 up to the formation of the Great Eastern Railway in 1862. The history is the first history of the GER since Cecil J. Allen’s history of the railway which was first published in 1955 and which has long been out of print. The book makes use of both previously published works on the GER and its predecessors, but also contemporary documents such as the Directors’ reports to shareholders of the Eastern Counties Railway, timetables, reports in local and national newspapers as well as extracts from selected peoples' diaries. Some of which were not easily available to Allen when he wrote his history of the GER. Incorporating these other sources means the book sheds new light on the Railway’s history. The book is intended for anyone who is either interested in railways and particularly the Great Eastern Railway and the railways of the east of England, but also for anyone who is interested in general in the history of that part of England.

Author: Michael M. Chrimes
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351892630
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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Between 1750 and 1850 the British landscape was transformed by a transport revolution which involved engineering works on a scale not seen in Europe since Roman times. While the economic background of the canal and railway ages are relatively well known and many histories have been written about the locomotives which ran on the railways, relatively little has been published on how the engineering works themselves were made possible. This book brings together a series of papers which seek to answer the questions of how canals and railways were built, how the engineers responsible organised the works, how they were designed and what the role of the contractors was in the process.

Author:
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Category : Locomotives
Languages : en
Pages : 564

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Author: R. D. Collison Black
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107475287
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 315

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Originally published in 1960, this book presents a discussion of the relationship between economic theory and economic policy in relation to nineteenth-century Irish history. The text focuses on the period 1816-70 and covers a variety of areas, including the land system, absentee landlords, the poor law, private enterprise, free trade, public works, and emigration. A bibliography is included and detailed notes are incorporated throughout. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Irish history, British foreign policy and economic theory.

Author: Robert Dennis Collison Black
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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