Download or read book The Settle Carlisle Railway written by Paul Salveson and published by Crowood Press UK. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The line from Settle to Carlisle is one of the world's great rail journeys. It carves its way through the magnificent landscape of the Yorkshire Dales - where it becomes the highest main line in England - descending to Cumbria's lush green Eden Valley with its view of the Pennines and Lakeland fells. But the story of the line is even more enthralling. From its earliest history the line fostered controversy: it probably should never have been built, arising only from a political dispute between two of the largest and most powerful railway companies in the 1860s. Its construction, through some of the most wild and inhospitable terrain in England, was a herculean task. Tragic accidents affected those who built, worked and travelled the line. After surviving the Beeching cuts of the 1960s, the line faced almost certain closure in the 1980s, only to be saved by an unexpected last-minute reprieve. The Settle-Carlisle Railway describes the history behind the inception and creation of the line; the challenges of constructing the 72-mile railway and its seventeen viaducts and fourteen tunnels; the locomotives that worked on the line and disasters which befell the railway, and finally, the threat of closure in the mid-1980s and the campaign to save it.
Download or read book The Settle Carlisle Railway written by Paul Salveson and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The line from Settle to Carlisle is one of the world's great rail journeys. It carves its way through the magnificent landscape of the Yorkshire Dales - where it becomes the highest main line in England - descending to Cumbria's lush green Eden Valley with its view of the Pennines and Lakeland fells. But the story of the line is even more enthralling. From its earliest history the line fostered controversy: it probably should never have been built, arising only from a political dispute between two of the largest and most powerful railway companies in the 1860s. Its construction, through some of the most wild and inhospitable terrain in England, was a herculean task. Tragic accidents affected those who built, worked and travelled the line. After surviving the Breeching cuts of the 1960s, the line faced almost certain closure in the 1980s, only to be saved by an expected last-minute reprieve. This book describes the history behind the inception and creation of the line; the challenges of constructing the 72-mile railway and its seventeen viaducts and fourteen tunnels; threat of closure in the mid-1980s and the campaign to save it, and finally, the line today and its future.
Download or read book The Settle Carlisle Railway written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Walking The Line written by Stan Abbott and published by Saraband. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative guide to the history, landscape and lore along the scenic English train line between Settle and Carlisle, by an established travel writer and railway aficionado. Widely known as England's most picturesque line, the enduring Settle-Carlisle Railway crosses the north Pennines between Yorkshire and Cumbria, traversing stunning scenery from the Dales through the lonely and lofty fells to the limestone pavements of Westmorland, and on into the lush, green Eden Valley. The line was built by the Midland Railway company in the 1870s, to forge an independent route connecting its English network with Scotland. Uniquely for a railway in the UK, the entire infrastructure is a Conservation Area in its own right—comprising viaducts, stations, bridges, tunnels, trackside structures and railway workers' cottages.
Download or read book The Settle to Carlisle Railway written by Gordon Edgar and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Settle - Carlisle line has survived the threat of closure to become one of Britain's best-loved and most spectacular railway routes.
Download or read book Settle Carlisle Railway written by Roger Hardingham and published by . This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stations Structures of the Settle Carlisle Railway written by Vernon Roy Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study rectifies the omission and incorporates much material from official sources and railway records to provide a comprehensive survey of the stations and structures of the Settle & Carlisle route. This edition also contains a 24-page colour section of previously unpublished historical colour photographs of the Settle & Carlisle line in the early 1960s.
Download or read book One Hundred Tales of the Settle Carlisle Railway written by William Reginald Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Settle Carlisle Railway Centenary written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Settle Carlisle Railway written by William Reginald Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cumbrian Steam written by Gordon Edgar and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A close-up look at Cumbria’s steam railways.
Download or read book Settle to Carlisle Way written by Vivienne Crow and published by . This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?The Settle to Carlisle Way is a newly developed route that runs from station to station, mostly within sight of the famous railway. It goes for 97 miles (156 km) northward from Settle, soon enjoying great views of the Three Peaks as it progresses through the Yorkshire Dales National Park, past the Ribblehead Viaduct and over Blea Moor tunnel. Entering Cumbria via lonely Mallerstang, the Way passes beneath Wild Boar Fell and descends gently through the delightful valley of the River Eden. Here it passes Long Meg and her Daughters stone circle and moves on to Armathwaite, ending in the historic border city of Carlisle.
Download or read book Guide to the District of Craven written by J. Radford Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Settle and Carlisle Railway written by Peida (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dales High Way written by Tony Grogan and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seven Years Hard written by William Reginald Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Midland Railway and L M S 4 4 0 Locomotives written by David Maidment and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Maidment has unravelled the complex history of the Johnson, Deeley and Fowler 4-4-0 locomotives of the Midland Railway and its LMS successor, covering their design, construction, operation and performance in this book with over 400 black and white photographs. It recounts their working on the Midland main lines from St Pancras to Derby, Manchester, Leeds and Carlisle, the latter via the celebrated Settle & Carlisle line, and the later work of the Fowler LMS engines on the West Coast main line. The book also describes the history of the Midland 4-4-0s built for the Somerset & Dorset and Midland & Great Northern Railways. The book covers the period from the first Midland 4-4-0 built in 1876 to the last LMS 2P withdrawn in 1962 and includes performance logs, weight diagrams and dimensions and statistical details of each locomotive.
