Download or read book Britain s 100 Best Railway Stations written by Simon Jenkins and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect new gift from the bestselling author of Britain's 1000 Best Churches It is the scene for our hopeful beginnings and our intended ends, and the timeless experiences of coming and going, meeting, greeting and parting. It is an institution with its own rituals and priests, and a long-neglected aspect of Britain's architecture. And yet so little do we look at the railway station. Simon Jenkins has travelled the length and breadth of Great Britain, from Waterloo to Wemyss Bay, Betws-y-Coed to Beverley, to select his hundred best. Blending his usual insight and authority with his personal reflections and experiences - including his founding the Railway Heritage Trust - the foremost expert on our national heritage deftly reveals the history, geography, design and significance of each of these glories. Beautifully illustrated with colour photographs throughout, this joyous exploration of our social history shows the station's role in the national imagination; champions the engineers, architects and rival companies that made them possible; and tells the story behind the triumphs and follies of these very British creations. These are the marvellous, often undersung places that link our nation, celebrated like never before.
Download or read book London s Great Railway Stations written by Oliver Green and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavish photographic history of all the key railway stations of London for transport buffs and anyone interested in the rich history of London.
Download or read book The English Railway Station written by Steven Parissien and published by Historic England. This book was released on 2014 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the architectural development, the social significance and, in the last century, the dramatic fall and rise of the English railway station.
Download or read book The Digested Read written by John Crace and published by RDR Books. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary ombudsman John Crace never met an important book he didn't like to deconstruct. From Salman Rushdie to John Grisham, Crace retells the big books in just 500 bitingly satirical words, pointing his pen at the clunky plots, stylistic tics and pretensions of Big Ideas, as he turns publishers' golden dream books into dross.
Download or read book British Railway Stations Illustrated written by British Railway Stations and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain written by M. E. Quick and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great British Railways written by Vicki Pipe and published by September Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a journey of discovery and explore the top 50 things to see and do on Great British railways. Find the rarest train routes, learn about the railways' people and animal friends, marvel at iconic stations, whizz over amazing bridges, steam through tremendous tunnels and visit the most spectacular railway sights. You can: - Ride across dramatic viaducts. - Visit Britain's busiest railway hub and its least-used station. - Stop at Britain's highest station. - Meet the railway cats and dogs.This lively, interactive book will inspire children – and adults – to seize the moment and explore the wonderful world of Great Britain's railways. Written by Vicki Pipe with additional fun facts from Geoff Marshall, the dynamic duo behind the YouTube channel's All the Stations and authors of The Railway Adventures.
Download or read book Great Western Railway Stations written by Allen Jackson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated survey of a wide range of GWR stations.
Download or read book Maintaining and Improving Britain s Railway Stations written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2005-07-20 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Network Rail owns most of Britain's 2507 stations and is responsible for their structural repair and renewal. It also operates and manages 17 large stations, known as managed stations. It leases the remainder, known as franchised stations, to 22 Train Operating Companies (TOCs) responsible for station maintenance, cleaning and operations. The Strategic Rail Authority (SRA) sets minimum standards, including facilities and services required at franchised stations, monitors TOCs' compliance with requirements and helps fund stations' operation and improvement. In this report, NAO examines whether passengers are satisfied with station facilities and services and whether station requirements are being met, the barriers to station improvement and what is being done to overcome them. There has been a little improvement in passengers' satisfaction over recent years. National Passenger Survey data show that satisfaction increased from 59 per cent to 63 per cent between 1999 and 2005, but the greatest levels of dissatisfaction are with the more than 2000 small and medium-sized stations which are unstaffed, or staffed for only part of the day, and which have few facilities. But there is a gap between rising passenger expectations on the one hand, and value for money and what the government and the industry can afford to spend on the other. Funding constraints constitute the biggest barrier to further improvement. Having originally envisaged spending £225 million on new facilities at 980 stations in its Modern Facilities at Stations programme, the SRA shrank the programme to £25 million and 68 stations to match the amount of money the Department for Transport made available.
Download or read book British Railway Stations written by John Horsley Denton and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Railway Station written by Jeffrey Richards and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This delightful and wide-ranging compendium' (Books and Bookmen) captures the mystique of railway stations by crossing the disciplines of history, literature, art, and architecture in a sweeping global survey unique in its scope.
Download or read book Directory of British Railways written by Paul Smith and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your comprehensive and indispensable guide to operational British Railway stations—including facilities available—from A to Z. Following nationalization in 1948, British Railways closed many branch lines and reduced the number of stations on the network. In January 1978, there were 2,358 and by January 2018 there were 2,560 stations on the network. The object of this book is to record those stations that are re-opened or are new stations to the system. The book gives: locations, facilities, chronology, statistics and passenger usage. “This useful reference work describes all the 200 or so stations opened or re-opened over the last 70 years, with a recent photograph of each and listed alphabetically. Print quality is excellent.” —West Somerset Railway Association “Authors Paul Smith and his stepdaughter Sally Salmon . . . have travelled widely to compile their Directory of British Railways and hunt down reopened stations, brand new stations, old stations which have been revived or reopened on adjacent sites, replacements, and private or non-timetabled stations which have become public stations.” —Express & Star
Download or read book The Directory of Railway Stations written by R. V. J. Butt and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an alphabetical listing of all names ever carried by railway stations in the British Isles
Download or read book British Railway Stations Illustrated Book One written by Railway and technical press and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The British Railway Station written by Gordon Biddle and published by David & Charles Publishers. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railway Stations written by Tim Bryan and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railway stations are among Britain’s most special buildings. The start and end point of the daily commute and the magical holiday, they vary hugely in style and size. This book is the perfect introduction to the subject.
