Download or read book The Cambridge to King s Lynn Line written by Mike Beckett and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously unpublished photographs documenting the many changes experienced by this railway line since electrification.
Download or read book Cambridge Station written by Rob Shorland-Ball and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why build a Railway to Cambridge? This is the first substantive illustrated book about Cambridge Station which explores the opening of the station in 1845; the four principal railway companies which all worked to and from the station in a tangle of mutual inconvenience; the extensive goods traffic which was handled in the several goods yard around the station; and the way the Station operated from early beginnings, to what Abellio East Anglia and Network Rail offer today. Cambridge Station is renowned for having one of the longest single platforms in the UK, served by Up and Down trains. Ingenious trackwork and extensive signalling could satisfy passengers who were told at the central booking hall entrance: 'Turn left for Kings Lynn or right for London.' The book contains several pictures never before published, showing how the Eastern Counties and then the Great Eastern Railway Companies contrived Cambridge Station and the Engine Sheds, Goods Yards, Signal Boxes and extensive sidings to serve East Anglia. And it tells people stories too, because the author worked on the station in the 1950s and 1960s and knows Cambridge and East Anglia well. He is a geographer and writes with knowledge, wisdom and humour.
Download or read book British Railway Trains Sstations Book Two written by Mark Chatterton and published by Hadleigh Books. This book was released on 2017-02-12 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Railway Trains & Stations Book Two - East Anglia gives details of fifteen different railway stations found in the area of East Anglia and the trains that pass through them. It includes the stations of Norwich, Colchester, Ipswich, Cambridge, Peterborough and Ely, and has many colour photographs
Download or read book Signal Boxes and Semaphores written by Gordon D. Webster and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the decline of mechanical signalling in the UK.
Download or read book The World s First Railway System written by Mark Casson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first history of the British railway system written from a modern economic perspective. It uses conterfactual analysis to construct an alternative network to represent the most efficient alternative rail network that could have been constructed given what was known at the time - the first time this has been done.
Download or read book The Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Eastern Railway Cambridge Line written by George S. Measom and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railways of the Eastern Counties Since 1970 written by John Law and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The railways of the Eastern Counties have seen a great number of changes over the years. With previously unpublished photographs this book documents the east of England's rail scene.
Download or read book Britain by Britrail 2012 13 written by Laverne Ferguson-Kosinski and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain by BritRail––the best-selling and most respected rail guide to the British train system––is back with this revised and updated new edition. This time-tested book provides all the information you need on fares, schedules, and pass options. It is also packed with travel tips, including information on keeping costs down, traveling light, conquering jet lag, and exchanging currency. Learn how to use London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Cardiff as base cities for more than forty rail trips and day excursions to outlying areas and points of interest in England, Scotland, and Wales, from the medieval city of York to Dover and its famous cliffs.
Download or read book Railway Renaissance written by Gareth David and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “David’s superb book looks at the defiant renaissance of such heritage railways . . . in contrast to Beeching’s vision of a streamlined railway network.” —Books Monthly When a 35 mile stretch of the former Waverley route from Edinburgh to Carlisle reopened on 6 September 2015, it became the most significant reopening of any UK railway since the infamous Beeching Report, “The Reshaping of British Railways,” was published in March 1963. In his report, Dr. Richard Beeching recommended sweeping closures of lines across the UK to improve the financial performance of British railways, which led to wholesale closures over the following decade and a reduction in the UK rail network from 18,000 miles in 1963, to some 11,000 miles a decade later. But since that low point was reached in the early 1970s a revolution has been taking place. Passenger traffic on the railways is now at its highest level since the 1940s and from Alloa to Aberdare, as well as from Mansfield to Maesteg, closed lines have reopened and the tide of Beeching closures has been gradually rolled back. Scores of stations have been reopened and on many of the newly revived lines, passenger traffic is far exceeding the forecasts used to support their reopening. In this comprehensive survey of new and reopened railways and stations across England, Scotland and Wales, Gareth David asks what it tells us about Dr. Beeching’s report, looking at how lines that were earmarked for closure in that report, but escaped the axe, have fared and reviews the host of further routes, which are either set to be reopened or are the focus of reopening campaigns.
Download or read book Electric Railway Society Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Iron in the Blood written by Richard Morris and published by Memoirs Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Morris started his career on British Rail in 1970 with the unlikely background of a degree in Classics. It helped that he had 'iron in the blood'; his family connections with the railways went back three generations. 42 years on he has held down some of the most demanding senior jobs at British Rail and Eurotunnel and taken responsibility for everything from dealing with major accidents to the personal travel arrangements of the Royal Family. Along the way he has made many friends and encountered a variety of remarkable personalities, from Her Majesty the Queen to one of the Kray twins. Iron in the Blood is the story of his career.
Download or read book Student Book written by Klaus Boehm and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive annually-updated guide to higher education offering practical advice on courses and places to study. The book deals with the mechanics of applying to college, and also information on matters from finance and accommodation to a glossary of unfamiliar terms.
Download or read book Where to Watch Birds in East Anglia written by David Callahan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive site guide to three of Britain's most bird-rich counties – Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. East Anglia – the jewel in the crown of British birding. The counties of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire represent the most popular region for birders and naturalists to visit in the British Isles, whether to see wintering flocks of geese and waders, rare vagrants, scarce breeding birds such as cranes and bitterns, or just to soak up the countryside, be it fen, broad, coastal dune, breckland, heath or down. This new book by David Callahan is the definitive guide to the birding highlights of the region. It contains a comprehensive review of all the major sites, and many lesser-known ones, with maps, notes on access, and information on target species and when to visit. Where to Watch Birds in East Anglia is indispensable for any birder heading to this bird-rich corner of England.
Download or read book Great Eastern Railway Magazine written by London and North Eastern Railway and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Way the Truth and the Dead written by Francis Pryor and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeologist and detective, Alan Cadbury, returns for his second adventure. In The Lifers’ Club, he unravelled the background to a violent death on an archaeological dig in the Fens, a wild marshy region in the east of England. The Way, the Truth and the Dead takes us to the black peatlands of the south, around the glorious cathedral city of Ely. It’s a watery landscape where the many ancient dykes, drains and rivers conceal dark secrets. Alan finds himself the Director of an important Roman and early Medieval excavation at the little hamlet of Fursby, not far from Littleport. But shortly before he starts work, he is contacted by his old friend, Detective Chief Inspector Richard Lane. Lane needs help – a body has been found in a river near the dig. And the dead person is an archaeologist, an old friend of Alan’s. It soon becomes clear that this will be no ordinary excavation: the remains are of national importance and their preservation is outstanding. So it comes as no surprise when a major television series decides to adopt it as a flagship project, opening the dig up to the public at a time when the rural community would rather keep things quiet...
Download or read book A Z London written by Geographers' A-Z Map Company and published by Hunter Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2002 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London cabbies train for years and the London A-Z is their bible. This highly detailed city atlas is found in every car in the country. It shows all the streets, lanes and courtyards, as well as train stations, gardens, parks and points of interest. 40,000 thoroughfares are indexed. All-color maps for easy reading. Don't go to London without this book.
