Download or read book Lost Railways of Co Antrim written by Stephen Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful Co. Antrim is lucky enough to still have remnants of its railway network. Unfortunately, it is now only a shadow of its former self as is strikingly demonstrated in this comprehensive history containing over fifty rare period photographs. Featured also are stunning pictures of the Giant's Causeway, Portrush and the Bush Valley Tramway, which for sixty years was a marvel of the north Antrim coast.
Download or read book The Railway Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British railway enthusiasm written by Ian Carter and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback, this is the first academic book to study railway enthusiasts in Britain. Far from a trivial topic, the post-war train spotting craze swept most boys and some girls into a passion for railways, and for many, ignited a lifetime’s interest. British railway enthusiasm traces this post-war cohort, and those which followed, as they invigorated different sectors in the world of railway enthusiasm – train spotting, railway modelling, collecting railway relics – and then, in response to the demise of main line steam traction, Britain’s now-huge preserved railway industry. Today this industry finds itself riven by tensions between preserving a loved past which ever fewer people can remember and earning money from tourist visitors. The widespread and enduring significance of railway enthusiasm will ensure that this groundbreaking text remains a key work in transport studies, and will appeal to enthusiasts as much as to students and scholars of transport and cultural history.
Download or read book Lost Railways of Co Down and Co Armagh written by Stephen Johnson and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost Railways of Co Derry written by Stephen Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only two lines now remain in Co. 'Derry, an area which once boasted an extensive railway network. The county town itself once featured a number of important stations and nearly twenty photographs of these form the centrepiece of this volume. As always some lines had their own eccentricities such as the Lough Swilly line. Containing fifty-one pictures in total and accompanied by a detailed text by Stephen Johnson - this is the last word in Northern Irish railway history.
Download or read book The Trains Long Departed written by Tom Ferris and published by Gill & MacMillan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trains Long Departed tells the story of Ireland's lost railways, the repository of optimism, disappointment and nostalgia.
Download or read book Lost Railways of Co Tyrone and Co Fermanagh written by Stephen Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Tyrone and Fermanagh both once had an extensive railway network, today nothing is left. The lines, stations and engines, all now gone, are recalled in this book which features over fifty rare photographs and a comprehensive account of the counties' railway history by Irish railway expert, Stephen Johnson. Featuring sections on the Clogher Valley Railway and its amazing steam railcars (see the front cover where a CVR railcar rolls up the middle of Caledon main street) and the wonderful Fintona Horse Tram.
Download or read book Lost Railways of Co Dublin and the South East written by Stephen Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dublin was an early target for railway development; in fact it boasted the world's second passenger railway (and the first to serve a capital city) which opened in 1834 between Dublin and Kingstown. This was swiftly followed by railway expansion throughout Ireland. In the south east it was the Dublin & South Eastern and the Great Southern & Western Railways that dominated. By 1925 they had amalgamated to become Great Southern Railways, but soon after there followed a period of fluctuating fortunes due to war and fuel shortages. In the 1950s competition from road transport led to drastic cost-cutting measures. Unlike the railways in Britain however, the region has enjoyed a revival since the 1980s with line electrifications and development of a modern tramway within the capital; as at date of publication there is now even an underground system being considered for the city. The whole history of the region's railways is told here in detail accompanied by a collection of 52 photographs. Locations featured include stations at Dun Laoghaire, Rosslare, Shankhill, Templeogue, the Guinness Brewery, Broadstone, Dublin Harcourt Street, Terenure, Embankment, Blessington, Poulaphouca, Sutton, Hill of Howth, Liffey Junction, Carbury, Edenderry, Tullow, Abbeyleix, Kilkenny, Mountmellick, Woodenbridge Junction, Shillelagh, Goresbridge, Borris, Ballywilliam, Palace East, Macmine Junction, Rathgarogue, Glenmore, Kilmeadan, Durrow, Dungarvan, Ballyduff, Waterford Manor, Waterford, Tramore, and Avoca.
Download or read book Lost Railways of County Donegal written by Stephen Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remote and beautiful county of Donegal provides the back-drop for this history of railway building and decline in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In the retrospective collection of photographs and fascinating accompanying details, the adventure and romance of rail travel in its heyday is captured for the reader to enjoy.
Download or read book Books Ireland written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Little Book of Antrim written by Barry Flynn and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little Book of Antrim is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County Antrim. Here you will find out about Antrim's people and places, its business and industry, its spectacular coasts and glens and its proud sporting heritage. Through quaint villages and bustling towns, this book takes the reader on a journey through County Antrim and its vibrant past. A reliable reference book and a quirky guide, this can be dipped into time and time again to reveal something new about the people, the heritage and the secrets of this ancient county.
Download or read book A History of the Narrow gauge Railways of North east Ireland The Ballymena Lines written by Edward Mervyn Patterson and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Railway World written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railway Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Railway Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 1316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland written by William Alan McCutcheon and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major study of the growth and decline of transport and industry in Ulster, this extremely detailed and comprehensive book throws new light on the infrastructure of corn grinding, spade forging, paper making, and other industries, and examines the mechanics of early road, bridge, and canal construction, more than 850 photographs and charts are contained in this volume.
Download or read book An Historical Geography of Railways in Great Britain and Ireland written by David Turnock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although a great deal has been published on the economic, social and engineering history of nineteenth-century railways, the work of historical geographers has been much less conspicuous. This overview by David Turnock goes a long way towards restoring the balance. It details every important aspect of the railway’s influence on spatial distribution of economic and social change, providing a full account of the nineteenth-century geography of the British Isles seen in the context of the railway. The book reviews and explains the shape of the developing railway network, beginning with the pre-steam railways and connections between existing road and water communications and the new rail lines. The author also discusses the impact of the railways on the patterns of industrial, urban and rural change throughout the century. Throughout, the historical geography of Ireland is treated in equal detail to that of Great Britain.
