Download or read book Britain s Railways Together Building a Railway to be Proud of written by Railway Forum and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Building of Britain s Railways written by Catherine Chambers and published by Raintree. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British railway system is the oldest in the world. This fascinating book describes the early days in the British railway industry, from the opening of the first public steam inter-city railway line in 1830 and Robert Stephenson's Rocket, through to the glory days of the Flying Scotsman and the expansion of the national rail networks in the 1940s to form British Railways. With a biography of George Stephenson the Father of the Railways and his son Robert, a timeline and Track Facts, this book is a must for anyone with an interest in trains and train travel.
Download or read book Railways Their Rise Progress and Construction written by Robert Ritchie and published by General Books. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: is in proportion to the load, the opposing resistance diminishes the effect, or positive gain. The important principle in railway construction becomes therefore, at once apparent?that the more level the way, the straighter and fewer the curves it presents, the less will be the loss of power. RAILWAYS INVENTED. The characteristic distinction of the railway from that of wheel-tracks or stone tramroads is, that the railway is formed of parallel rails or bearers laid on a level, or as near a level as possible; these rails being placed at a uniform distance apart, to suit the gauge of the wheels of carriages adapted purposely for the track or way, and having a margin, or what is termed a flanch, to guide them. When cast-iron plate rails were invented, the flanch was made on the rail itself; but some time after the introduction into the country of cast-iron wheels, which is understood to have taken place about 1754, the plan was reversed, and the flanch was cast on the wheel. It is not accurately ascertained when railways on this principle were first introduced into Britain. They were originally termed tram or dram roads, or waggon-ways, the name tram-way being applied both to railways of this description and to stone wheel-tracks, though it is now commonly given to the latter. They were at first, probably, nothing but continuous parallel logs of wood, with a smooth surface. It is generally understood that wooden railways were first applied as a substitute for common roads at the collieries, between the years 1602 and 1649, for the purpose of more easily transmitting the produce of the coal-fields and other minerals from the mouths of the pits to the place of shipment, and of enabling the horses to draw greater loads. A description is given of a railway in 1766, then in use ...
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Download or read book The Building of Britain s Railways written by Catherine Chambers and published by Raintree. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Investing in Britain s future written by Great Britain: H.M. Treasury and published by Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper the Government announces an increase in capital spending plans by £3 billion a year, from 2015, which means an additional £18 billion of investment over the next parliament. The Government is taking a long-term approach to infrastructure, to overcome decades of short-term decision making and uncertainty in funding, financing and failures in delivery. Plans include over £70 billion of investment in transport, over £20 billion in schools and £10 billion in science, housing and flood defences. Specific commitments include funding for HS2, the biggest programme of investment in roads since the 1970s, and superfast broadband provision will be expanded so 95 per cent of UK premises will have access to superfast broadband by 2017.Action is being taken to provide the support needed to enable up to £100 billion of private sector energy investment, including through the further roll-out and extension of the UK guarantees scheme. Lessons on successful project delivery will be learnt from the Olympics and similar examples.
Download or read book Britain from the Rails written by Benedict Le Vay and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2009 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's a magical romance about trains that no other form of transport can capture. Meeting under an iconic station clock at a grand terminus. Gathering speed through city, town and country, swooping across viaducts, rattling across huge junctions and whistling through tunnels. At long last you are in a small Sussex beachside halt, or a Welsh valley country station, beside a quiet Norfolk waterway, or winding through a remote forest high above a Scottish loch. Dreamily you think, 'Do those same twin ribbons of steel really lead all the way back to the greatest city in Europe? Can this really be the very same seat?'Britain from the Rails travels to a world far from the endless queues and prodding security of ugly airport terminals. It abandons the cars to their motorway jams and soaring petrol prices, and revels instead in the gems of Britain's historic railway system.
Download or read book The Railways of Britain written by William Henry Boulton and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Britain and America 1850 1939 written by Philip S. Bagwell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-31 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1970, Britain and America 1850–1939 is a key text for anyone seeking to trace and interpret the development of the two great trans-Atlantic economies. The authors present a comparative survey of the economic development of Britain and America. The book compares and contrasts the economic and social progress of the two countries in the period of rapid industrialization and dramatic social change between 1850 and 1939. Throughout, the authors explain the interaction of the two economies upon each other and give reasons – social and political as well as economic – for the outstanding differences in the economic life of the two countries. Separate chapters give a comprehensive account of agriculture, transport, trade unions, banking, overseas trade, industry, and social problems. Among the individual topics considered are the economic significance of the Civil War, the influence of the railways, migration of labour and export of capital, the retardation of the British economy, the great slump of the 1930s and the New Deal. The authors support their arguments with numerous statistical tables, charts, and diagrams. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of economics and history.
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