Download or read book The Minehead Branch and the West Somerset Railway written by Colin Gordon Maggs and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Minehead Branch 1848 1971 written by Ian Coleby and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Saving the West Somerset Railway written by John Parsons and published by History Press. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saving the West Somerset railway
Download or read book The West Somerset Railway written by John Stretton and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running from Bishops Lydeard to Minehead, at over 21 miles the WSR is the longest preserved line in the UK, so deserves to be classed among the premier heritage railways. It incorporates many classic ingredients of a traditional GWR branch line: steam-hauled trains and beautiful stations set in a countryside of rolling hills and seaside resorts.
Download or read book Ticket to Minehead written by Alan Hammond and published by . This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apart from the range of photographs, featuring staff, passengers, local characters and even trains and stations, there are memories from 25 different people of the West Somerset line. These stories are mostly railway driven but the authors have added insights into the contributors lives, making this book a document of social history of the area.
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 Tales of the West Somerset Railway written by Ian Coleby and published by . This book was released on 2019-12 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 The West Somerset Railway written by John Stretton and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Spirit of the West Somerset Railway written by Don Bishop and published by Halsgrove. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Beeching Legacy written by Phil Horton and published by Silver Link. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of this popular volume has been out of print for several years and has become much sought after. Produced in black and white, the first edition was the first volume in the series, taking a detailed regional look at the Beeching Report, its proposals for closures and modifications of the UK railway network. The report has become legendary and the interest and debate it generated is no less today than it has ever been since first published. Indeed, with railways now rejuvenated and passenger numbers growing ever larger, the reflection on what Beeching got right and what perhaps in hindsight got very badly wrong makes for fascinating reading. This new, expanded second edition has been completely reworked and is now published with color illustrations both new and replacing the original black and white images where possible. The text has been expanded and updated as appropriate and there are 32 extra pages, bringing the new edition to 192 pages.
Download or read book West Somerset Railway Country Walks from Our Stations written by Malcolm Short and published by Silver Link Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book West Somerset Railway written by Richard Jones and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book West Somerset Railway written by M. K. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Guide to Stations and Buildings written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
