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 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a fascinating railway line

Download or read book The GWR Bristol to Taunton Line written by Colin Gordon Maggs and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sorely neglected by railway authors, the line between Bristol and Taunton was part of the Bristol & Exeter Railway. A fascinating line, it was built to serve a moribund coalfi eld and a grand harbour scheme which proved a dismal failure. The line had many interesting features: two short dock branches, one of which had a telescopic bridge; several industrial concerns with their own locomotives; vital wartime factories; the busy holiday and excursion traffi c to Weston-super-Mare, which required a special station. Wind strength had its effect on the railway, as on the horse-worked Weston-super-Mare branch, when an adverse wind blew it was quicker to get out and walk. The line has also had more than its fair share of accidents and mishaps. The B&ER favoured express tank locomotives, some magnifi cent specimens with 9-foot-diameter fl angeless driving wheels. The human side is not to be ignored, however: there are details of navvies' lives and deaths, of a spat between Brunel and his resident engineer, and the daring robbery of a mail train. Colin G. Maggs, one of the country's leading railway historians, covers all these details and more in this gripping and well-researched story, illustrated with over 200 images.

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 443 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 452 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 Great Western Railway Volume Two Bristol to Plymouth written by Stanley C. Jenkins and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the GWR line between Bristol and Plymouth 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 Steam Workshops of the Great Western Railway written by Ken Gibbs and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 247 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.

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 128 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 Locomotive News and Railway Contractor written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dr Beeching s Axe 50 Years On written by Julian Holland and published by F+W Media, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julian Holland's Dr Beeching's Axe 50 Years On is a unique memorial to all that was lost following the publication of the ‘Beeching Report’ on 27 March 1963. Uniquely, the author has tried to include every railway line that was closed as a result of the ‘Beeching Report’, and more. They are all shown on Map 9 in Part 2 of the ‘Report’ and have been annotated for clarity at the beginning of each regional chapter in the book. Needless to say it is not plain sailing: there are lines that were marked for closure on the maps but were closed before publication of the ‘Report’; there are lines that were not originally on Beeching’s original hit list but which were closed anyway; there are lines that were originally marked down for closure but which were fortunately reprieved. There are even one or two which seem to have not existed at all! The author has included them all.

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Download or read book The People of Devon in the First World War written by Dr David Parker and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thematically divided, this fascinating study explores the experiences of many of Devon's people during the First World War: soldiers; aliens and spies (real and imagined); refugees; conscientious objectors; nurses and doctors; churchmen; the changing roles of women and children; and finally the controversies surrounding farming and agriculture. It provides a moving tribute to the price paid by Devon and its people during the War to End all Wars.

Download or read book Black s Guide to Devonshire written by Adam and Charles Black (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Black s Guide to Devonshire written by Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Black s Guide to Exeter and East Devon written by Adam and Charles Black (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Britain s Industrial Revolution in 100 Objects written by John Broom and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2023-02-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period of Britain’s Industrial Revolution was perhaps the most transformative era in the nation’s history. Between about 1750 and 1914, life and work, home and school, church and community changed irreversibly for Britain’s rapidly expanding population. Lives were transformed, some for the better, but many endured abysmal domestic and workplace conditions. Eventually improvements were made to Britain’s social fabric which led to the prospect of richer and more fulfilled lives for working men, women and even children. Focusing on 100 objects that either directly influenced, or arose from, these changes, John Broom offers a distinctive insight into this fascinating age. With plentiful illustrations and suggestions for visits to hundreds of places of historical interest, this book makes an ideal companion for a journey into Britain’s industrial past.