Download or read book British Railways Atlas 1947 and RCH Junction Diagrams written by Ian Allan Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Railways Atlas 1947 written by Ian Allan and published by Ian Allen Pub. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available for the first time in hardback, British Railways Atlas 1947: The Last Days of the Big Four helps to recall a long-lost era when railways were still the dominant form of transport for both passengers and freight all over the country. Originally published in 1948 as a permanent record of the British railway system as it was at the end of private ownership in December 1947, British Railways Atlas 1947 is a graphic reminder of the scale of the railway industry in the period before Nationalisation. Each of the lines of the Big Four railway companies is differentiated by a colour - Great Western (yellow), London, Midland & Scottish (red), London & North Eastern (blue) and Southern (green). Also shown are the myriad minor railways that had managed to maintain their independence after the Grouping of 1923 but which were to disappear along with their larger neighbours into the new British Railways: lines such as the Kent & East Sussex and the East Kent which had jealously guarded their independence were to be swallowed up. This reprint of the ever popular Rail Atlas comes back bigger and better than before, and of course in Hard back for the first time ever.
Download or read book British Railways Atlas 1947 written by Ian Allan (Firm) and published by Ian Allan Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1948 as a permanent record of the British railway system as it was at the end of private ownership, this book is a graphic reminder of the scale of the railway industry in the period before nationalisation.'
Download or read book British Railway Atlas 1955 written by Ian Allan Ltd and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compilers of this new atlas have delved through the records to provide a comprehensive railway atlas covering the state of Britain's railways in January 1955, at the dawn of the modernisation era.
Download or read book ABC British Railway Atlas written by Michael G. Ball and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pocket guide to the railways of Great Britain and Ireland, now fully updated to take account of all recent network developments and changes since the last edition was published 10 years ago.
Download or read book Routledge Revivals The Atlas of British Railway History 1985 written by Michael Freeman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1985, this Atlas uses over 50 specially drawn maps to trace the rise and fall of the railways’ fortunes, and is supported by an interesting and authoritative text. Financial and operating statistics are clearly presented in diagrammatic form and provide a wealth of information rarely available to the student of railway history. Freeman and Aldcroft provide the basis for a new understanding of the way in which the railways transformed Britain by the scale of their engineering works, by shrinking national space and reorganising the layouts of urban areas. Maps show the evolution of early wagon routes into the first railway routes, the frenetic activity of the ‘Railway Mania’ years, and the consolidation of these lines into a national network. This exciting presentation of railway development will interest the enthusiast as well as the more general student of British transport history.
Download or read book British Railways Atlas written by Michael G. Ball and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Rail Atlas written by Ian Allan Publishers and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sectional Maps of the British Railways as at December 1947 written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Comprehensive Guide to Railway Request Stops written by Anthony Hart and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rail By Request is an enthusiast’s personal story and tells how the author visited, photographed, and spent time at every request stop on mainland Britain. It also explains where his love of railways is rooted, why he began this odyssey and how it became a very different and important experience to him. Journeying across the whole railway map to capture these often ignored stops – not just for posterity, but for the journey. The lure of request stops and the practicalities of completing the journey to discover them, is the core of the story. Researching every request stop in Britain and planning how to get there and overcoming any difficulties, became a source of great satisfaction. Every stop is described and has at least one illustration. Some historical context to the stops is included, with current statistics. The story also shows how, he ticked off each stop, but unexpectedly found himself passing the time engaged in a form of railwayana mindfulness – allowing the world to rush past whilst being alive in the moment. It shows a calmer slower world does exist.
Download or read book An Atlas and Survey of South Asian History written by Karl J. Schmidt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical atlas is devoted primarily to India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, while also covering Napal, Bhutan and Ceylon/Sri Lanka. The maps are accompanied by text which illuminates recent political, economic, social and cultural developments.
Download or read book Railway Guns written by John Goodwin and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century the War Office showed little interest in developing large heavy artillery for its land forces, preferring instead to equip its warships with the biggest guns. Private initiatives to mount a gun on a railway truck pulled by a steam engine were demonstrated before military chiefs in the Southern Counties, but not taken up. However, the development of longer-range guns, weighing up to 250 tons, to smash through the massive armies and trench systems on the Western Front in 1916, led to a rethink. The only way to move these monsters about quickly in countryside thick with mud was to mount them on specially built railway trucks towed by locomotives. The railway guns were to be put on little-used country lines where they could fire on beaches, road junctions and harbors. The locations and cooperation given by the independent railway companies is explained, as are the difficulties of using the same lines for war and civilian traffic. The First World War also saw the emergence of large training camps for railway men. When the war ended most railway guns were dismantled and lost in ordnance depots. The Army Council was uncertain about artillery needs in a future war, so training, and development stopped. This book largely concentrates on the realities of the time, the type of gun, the locomotives, artillery targets, locations, and what it was like when firing took place. It is fully illustrated with pictures, maps and plans covering different aspects of railway guns their locomotives and equipment.
Download or read book The Routledge Atlas of British History written by Martin Gilbert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolving story of the British Isles forms the central theme of this fascinating and compelling atlas, which covers England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales – and the expansion and gradual disintegration of Britain’s overseas empire. This new edition includes: Politics – from the Saxon kingdoms and the collapse of England’s French Empire to the Tudors and Stuarts, the English Civil War, the Restoration, Parliamentary Reform, the Commonwealth and Europe, the European Union and the Coalition Government formed in 2010 War and conflict – from Viking attacks and the Norman Invasion to the Armada, two World Wars and the end of empire, the Falklands War, the Gulf War, British forces overseas, terror at home and the wars in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq Trade and industry – from the post-Norman economy and Tudor trade to industrial unrest and the opening of international trade routes, imports and exports, arms sales and British humanitarian aid overseas Religion – from the Saxon Church to the Reformation and the multi-cultural Britain of modern times Society and economics – from civilian life in Roman Britain to the Industrial and Agricultural revolutions, the General Strike and the growth of universities, unemployment, homelessness, charitable activities and government expenditure Immigration – the growth of immigrant communities, the wide range of countries from which immigrants came, citizenship applications and citizenship granted. Sir Martin Gilbert is Winston Churchill’s official biographer, and one of Britain’s leading historians, having written eighty-two books in total. He is an Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and a Distinguished Fellow of Hillsdale College, Michigan. He has also most recently served on the committee of the Iraq Inquiry set up by the British Government. For more information, please visit www.martingilbert.com.
Download or read book History of Rail Transport in Great Britain written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Rail Atlas and Gazetteer written by Railway Publications Ltd and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Railways Pre grouping Atlas and Gazetteer written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Railways Pre Grouping Atlas and Gazetteer Compiled by W P Conolly and U A Vincent Fifth Edition written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
