Download or read book Railways Around Bedfordshire written by John Jackson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superb photographs documenting Bedfordshire's railway scene. Taking a more detailed look at these services that speed through the county.
Download or read book The Railway Age in Bedfordshire written by Frederick George Cockman and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1974 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account of the impact made by railways on Victorian society in Bedfordshire between 1846 and 1890. There are chapters about the main railway lines through and within the county; schemes that failed; contractors and navvies, travelling by rail; accidents; railwaymen; and crime. Two maps illustrate railways built 1846-1872 and those proposed but not built 1844-1910. Appendices contain a selection of timetables and fares (including five special excursion timetables) of LNWR, MR and GNR and their branches.
Download or read book The Railway Age in Bedfordshire written by Frederick George Cockman and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1974 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account of the impact made by railways on Victorian society in Bedfordshire between 1846 and 1890. There are chapters about the main railway lines through and within the county; schemes that failed; contractors and navvies, travelling by rail; accidents; railwaymen; and crime. Two maps illustrate railways built 1846-1872 and those proposed but not built 1844-1910. Appendices contain a selection of timetables and fares (including five special excursion timetables) of LNWR, MR and GNR and their branches.
Download or read book The Railway Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World s First Railway System written by Mark Casson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British railway network was a monument to Victorian private enterprise. Its masterpieces of civil engineering were emulated around the world. But its performance was controversial: praised for promoting a high density of lines, it was also criticised for wasteful duplication of routes. This is the first history of the British railway system written from a modern economic perspective. It uses conterfactual analysis to construct an alternaive network to represent the most efficient alternative rail network that could have been constructed given what was known at the time - the first time this has been done. It reveals how weaknesses in regulation and defects in government policy resulted in enormous inefficiency in the Victorian system that Britain lives with today. British railway companies developed into powerful regional monopolies, which then contested each other's territories. When denied access to existing lines in rival territories, they built duplicate lines instead. Plans for an integrated national system, sponsored by William Gladstone, were blocked by Members of Parliament because of a perceived conflict with the local interests they represented. Each town wanted more railways than its neighbours, and so too many lines were built. The costs of these surplus lines led ultimately to higher fares and freight charges, which impaired the performance of the economy. The book will be the definitive source of reference for those interested in the economic history of the British railway system. It makes use of a major new historical source, deposited railway plans, integrates transport and local history through its regional analysis of the railway system, and provides a comprehensive, classified bibliography.
Download or read book The Railway Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 1516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The history of Bedford and visitor s guide written by Thomas Allen Blyth and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book London and North Western Railway Panoramic Guide Edited by R K Philp written by Robert Kemp PHILP and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Steam Military Connections London Midland and Scottish Railway Steam Locomotives written by Keith Langston and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This British Railways history explores the long-held tradition of naming steam locomotives in honor of the military. The naming of steam locomotives was a beloved British tradition since the first railway locomotives appeared in 1804. Many of the names were chosen in honor of military personnel, regiments, squadrons, naval vessels, aircraft, battles, and associated historic events. This volume looks specifically at the steam locomotives with military-inspired names that were built by the London & North Eastern Railway, which joined the British Railways stock in 1948. A large number of the company’s Jubilee class locomotives were given names with a military connection, as were a small number of Black Five class engines. Famously the majority of the much-admired Royal Scot class of engines carried names associated with the military in general and regimental names in particular. Many of the nameplates were adorned with ornate crests and badges. Long after the demise of mainline steam, rescued nameplates have become prized collectors’ items. This generously illustrated publication highlights the relevant steam locomotives and explains the origins and social history surrounding their military names.
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Download or read book Post office directory of Berkshire Northamptonshire Oxfordshire with Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire and Huntingdonshire afterw The Post office directory of Northamptonshire Huntingdonshire Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire Berkshire and Oxfordshire written by Kelly's directories, ltd and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 1108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bedfordshire Farm Worker in the Nineteenth Century written by Nigel E. Agar and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of extracts from Parliamentary Papers and documentary material in Bedfordshire County Record Office to describe the life of the farm worker in nineteenth-century Bedfordshire. A general overview is followed by sections concerned with the poor law, the life of the labourer, migration and emigration, housing, access to land and education, and the Agricultural Labourers' Union. The volume begins with a tribute In Memoriam to Harold Owen White, secretary of BHRS 1965-1980.
Download or read book Select Committee on London and York Railway Bill Group X written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-20 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Download or read book The Railway Register and Record of Public Enterprise for Railways Mines Patents and Inventions written by Hyde Clark and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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