Download or read book The GWR Bristol to Bath Line written by Colin Maggs and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of a classic history of the railway line between Bristol and Bath, illustrated with over 200 pictures.
Download or read book A History of the Great Western Railway written by Colin Maggs and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative history of the most iconic railway company of the great age of steam.
Download or read book The GWR Handbook written by David Wragg and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many the GWR was synonymous with holidays by the sea in the West Country, but it was built to serve as a fast railway line to London, especially for the merchants and financiers of Bristol. Its operations stretched as far as Merseyside, it provided most services in Wales, and it was the main line to Cardiff, Bristol, Cornwall and Birmingham. This book, a classic first published in 2006, reveals the equipment, stations, network, shipping and air services, bus operations including Western National, and overall reach and history of the GWR. Forming part of a series, along with The LMS Handbook, The LNER Handbook and The Southern Railway Handbook, this new edition provides an authoritative and highly detailed reference of information about the GWR.
Download or read book The Railway Handbook Including an Index and a Supplement Forming a Chronicle of a Large Collection of Railway Publications and Relics of Dates from 1807 to 1894 Including Many of the Earliest Records of Railways and of Steam Locomotion at Home and Abroad Together with Some Archives of Steam Navigation written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The GWR Bristol to Taunton Line written by Colin Maggs and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a fascinating railway line
Download or read book The Great Western Railway Volume One Paddington to Bristol written by Stanley C. Jenkins and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the Great Western Railway has changed and developed over the last century between Paddington and Swindon.
Download or read book The Railway Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain written by Donald J. Grant and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Directory of British Railway Companies of Great Britain is a record of all the companies who sought to build a railway in Great Britain, both successful and unsuccessful. The Directory contains a full list of every company that obtained an Act of Parliament for the construction of a railway. If a railway was built without an Act of Parliament and played a part in the greater picture of Great Britain’s railway system, it is also included, which gives a fascinating glimpse into Great Britain’s colourful public transportation history. Readers will learn about each railway’s origin, opening, route, gauge and growth and its amalgamation with others, and find out which grouping company it finally ended up in. In an interesting additional section, the routes that unfinished railways and railways that never came to fruition would have taken are also included. The Directory of British Railway Companies of Great Britain has been meticulously researched, and as a result includes all railways, built or not, in the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands and Scottish Islands. Also included are brief descriptions of the most pertinent Acts relating to railways in Great Britain, providing readers with an insight into the complicated legal processes involved in the creation of a railway. The Directory of British Railway Companies of Great Britain is an all-in-one, easy to access and invaluable reference source. It will appeal to historians and transportation enthusiasts alike, as well as those who have always wondered how Great Britain’s railways came to be.
Download or read book Railway Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Western Railway Volume Six South Wales Main Line written by Stanley C. Jenkins and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the GWR South Wales Main Line has changed and developed over the last century.
Download or read book Time Tables of the Great Western Railway written by Great Western Railway (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Branch Lines of Somerset written by Colin Maggs and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated title from acknowledged railway expert Colin G. Maggs, presenting the story of Somerset's branch lines.
Download or read book The World s First Railway System written by Mark Casson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British railway network was a monument to Victorian private enterprise. Its masterpieces of civil engineering were emulated around the world. But its performance was controversial: praised for promoting a high density of lines, it was also criticised for wasteful duplication of routes. This is the first history of the British railway system written from a modern economic perspective. It uses conterfactual analysis to construct an alternaive 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. It reveals how weaknesses in regulation and defects in government policy resulted in enormous inefficiency in the Victorian system that Britain lives with today. British railway companies developed into powerful regional monopolies, which then contested each other's territories. When denied access to existing lines in rival territories, they built duplicate lines instead. Plans for an integrated national system, sponsored by William Gladstone, were blocked by Members of Parliament because of a perceived conflict with the local interests they represented. Each town wanted more railways than its neighbours, and so too many lines were built. The costs of these surplus lines led ultimately to higher fares and freight charges, which impaired the performance of the economy. The book will be the definitive source of reference for those interested in the economic history of the British railway system. It makes use of a major new historical source, deposited railway plans, integrates transport and local history through its regional analysis of the railway system, and provides a comprehensive, classified bibliography.
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 Railway Towns written by David Brandon and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2024-05-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The railways changed the world. They initiated a revolution in communications which continues to this day, ever more profoundly influencing our lives. They had an enormous economic and social impact in Britain, not least with its demography. Before 1914 places on the railway system felt they were connected to the wider world. Those left off the system often feared for their future. It was never actually as simple as that. Some places well served by railways prospered, other did not. Some with minimal or no railway connections managed to sustain themselves successfully. Others became complex railway hubs, perhaps with railway-based engineering works, extensive shunting yards and warehouses and a large requirement for labour. Some companies built large numbers of dwellings for their workers and their families. Sometimes they even built churches and parks, for example. Places of this character have often been described as 'railway towns' but what is actually meant by this term? In a pioneering attempt in book form to move towards an understanding of what constitutes a railway town, the author considers a wide range of cities, towns, villages and other settlements and asks to what extent they owed their nineteenth and early twentieth century development to the railways. This book should appeal to students of railway history, British topography and the economic, social and cultural impact of railways.
Download or read book A Treatise on the Law of Railways Railway Companies and Railway Investments written by Sir William Hodges and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 1150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steam Workshops of the GWR written by Ken Gibbs and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth century was a time of innovation and expansion across the industrial landscape, and nowhere more so than on the railways, as the new age of iron, steel and steam, literally, gathered pace. At the head of the race up was the iconic Great Western Railway. As this mighty corporation grew, it absorbed an astonishing 353 railway companies. Many of them had their own workshops, depots and manufacturing, often assembling locomotives to the designs of other companies. All these, along with the various designs, became the responsibility of the GWR on takeover, and followed its standardisation of components where this was possible. These works became the beating heart of the GWR’s vast empire, where majestic engines were built and maintained by some of the most skillful and inventive engineers of the day.Retired GWR railwayman Ken Gibbs presents a comprehensive portrait of the works from Brunel to the final days of steam in the mid-twentieth century, and beyond to the rediscovery and renovation of many of the workshops for their unique heritage.
