Download or read book The Locomotives of the Great Northern Railway 1847 1902 written by George Frederick Bird and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Northern Railway Gallery written by Michael A. Vanns and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A simply fascinating and impressively informative illustrated history” of the British steam railway by the author of The Leicester Gap (Midwest Book Review). The Great Northern Railway was one of 120 companies that ran trains in Britain during the Victorian and Edwardian period. Formed in 1846, it traded independently for seventy-six years until absorbed into the London & North Eastern Railway on 1 January 1923. Operating a network of nearly 700 route miles it ran trains between King’s Cross, London and York, into the Eastern Counties and the East Midlands, the West Riding of Yorkshire, into Lancashire and even south of the Thames. It developed distinctive characteristics, both in the way it managed its affairs and in the appearance of its trains, stations, signals and signalboxes. Numerous photographs were taken, particularly from the 1890s onwards, by dedicated amateurs attracted to the lineside by the sight of speeding steam locomotives in apple green livery, hauling polished teak carriages. Goods trains and the endless procession of coal trains were not such popular photographic subjects, but by searching out these and images of staff, stations and signalboxes, this book aims to capture something of the spirit of a once-great organization in the heyday of Britain’s steam railways. “With the welcome increase in the pre-Grouping scene engendered by projects such as the Hatton’s ‘Genesis’ coaches, books such as this will find a new audience, which is no bad thing.” —Railway Modeller “Vanns certainly presents a splendid collection of period images displaying numerous aspects of the railway’s operations.” —Best of British
Download or read book The Official Guide to the Great Northern Railway written by Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of The Great Northern Railway written by Charles H. Grinling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1903, this book provides a complete account of the origin and development of the Great Northern Railway Company from its inception to the year 1802, a period of around 60 years.
Download or read book The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland written by Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Passed in the 1807 69 written by Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 1312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland written by and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Official Guide to the Great Northern Railway Illustrated written by Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Midland Great Northern Joint Railway Through Time written by Steph Gillett and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steph Gillett documents the history of this fascinating line, marking the sixtieth anniversary since its closure.
Download or read book Locomotives of the Great Northern Railway written by G. F. Bird and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating account of the GNR's locomotives was originally published in 1910. Profusely illustrated with over 120 line drawings it has been brought bang up to date with a new introduction and numerous photographs.
Download or read book The Official Guide to the Great Northern Railway written by Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Steam Military Connections LNER Steam Locomotives Tornado written by Keith Langston and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page 324 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.
Download or read book The Official Guide To The Great Northern Railway written by Gordon Roberts and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-08-02 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no one living today who has personal experience of the Great Northern Railway (GNR), since it ceased to exist in 1923. However, seated in a favourite armchair with this guide in hand, it is possible to drift back in time and experience Victorian railway travel in the year 1892, the year that this book was originally published by Cassell & Company. Imagine beginning your travels at the magnificent London terminus of King's Cross. The advertisements in this book will inform you that the refreshment-room tariff includes a basin of soup for one shilling, mutton or veal and ham pie for three pence, or a plate of meat for six pence. Port, sherry or claret is available at six pence per glass, whiskey, gin, or rum at four pence per glass, ale or stout at two pence per glass. For younger travellers lemonade soda can be had for two pence a bottle, ginger beer for three pence. Or perhaps you prefer to take your food with you on the train. In this case luncheon baskets, hot or cold, are available at three shillings each. But whistles are blowing and the "Flying Scotsman" is about to depart for Edinburgh, Glasgow and the Highlands. Reaching Edinburgh, we might seek accommodation at John MacPherson's Cockburn Hotel on Waverley Bridge, where a night porter is kept, French, German and Italian are spoken, and a bed and attendance (on the fourth floor) can be had for two shillings and sixpence. This is a temperance hotel so, Mr. MacPherson sternly warns, no spiritous liquors are available. This type of hotel finds great favour with Victorian lady travellers, who have vowed that "lips which touch spirits shall never touch mine". On another journey by the Great Northern, we might travel on the York to Newcastle line and alight at Darlington Bank Top Station. The main line here is a vast thoroughfare for traffic, averaging considerably over one hundred passenger trains daily. The new and handsome station has a letterbox, postal-telegraph office, bookstall, and refreshment rooms, on the island platform. Cabs (that is, horse-drawn hansom cabs, not motor taxis) attend all trains. And so on and on-scores of different but equally delightful journeys, through hundreds of stations, villages and towns big and small, all alluringly described in the guide in over three hundred and sixty pages. Many pages contain delightful engravings depicting high streets with chickens scratching in gutters and horse drawn wagons plodding by, where today the same scene is usually a choked confusion of gridlocked traffic, raucous noise, and mad rush. A further eighty pages are full of beguiling contemporary advertisements that are worth browsing in their own right. Truly, with the Official Guide to the Great Northern Railway in hand, not only is it possible to experience Victorian railway travel at its height, but also to time-travel back to the days before motor cars and yellow lines blighted village and town, before motorways scarred the countryside and their hideous noise drove people nearly insane. A time also when the only things in the sky were songbirds and not screaming jetliners. From your armchair, today, with the Official Guide, you can recapture a time when only a puff of smoke, the hiss of steam and the rattle of carriage wheels marked the passage of a train, only briefly disturbing the quiet townscape or rural idyll. When uniformed hotel porters with their luggage barrows met all trains and no one had to struggle, as today, up and down stairs with their own cumbersome suitcases on wheels. When meals in dining cars were cooked on the train in real ovens and served by waiters in white jackets and black ties, with all the panache of the London Savoy. When drinks were served in glass and china and not disagreeable cardboard. When sleeping cars ensured a sound nights rest on long overnight journeys. Ah-bliss! Discover it all with this wonderful book, and let your imagination know no bounds.
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Download or read book The Golden Years of the Great Northern Railway written by Robert McCullough Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire Into and Report Upon the Means of Locomotion and Transport in London written by Great Britain. Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire into and Report upon the Means of Locomotion and Transport in London and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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