Download or read book Through the Window written by Great Western Railway (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pentagram Papers written by Pentagram Design and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2006-12-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated global design firm Pentagram has produced a series of signature annual documents, known as Pentagram Papers, exclusively for clients and colleagues since 1975. On the occasion of the firm's 35-year anniversary, these quirky and influential Papers are collected here together for the first time. Each Paper explores a unique and curious topic of interest to the Pentagram designersMao buttons, the Savoy ballroom, rural Australian mailboxes, and the pop architecture of Wildwood, New Jersey, have all been featured subjects. Included here are not only in-depth reproductions and detailed discussion of the Papers' origins, but also an exclusive new Paper created especially for the book and set into a tray inside its back cover.

Download or read book The English Catalogue of Books written by Sampson Low and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.

Download or read book The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine written by Edward Hungerford Goddard and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes proceedings of the annual general meetings of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society.

Download or read book Caerphilly Castle written by Walter George Chapman and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The English Catalogue of Books annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.

Download or read book Holiday Haunts in England Wales and Channel Islands written by Great Western Railway (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Ordeal of Philip Yale Drew written by Richard Whittington-Egan and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Belles and Whistles written by Andrew Martin and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the heroic days of rail travel, you could dine on kippers and champagne aboard the Brighton Belle; smoke a post-prandial cigar as the Golden Arrow closed in on Paris, or be shaved by the Flying Scotsman's on-board barber. Everyone from schoolboys to socialites knew of these glamorous 'named trains' and aspired to ride aboard them. In Belles and Whistles, Andrew Martin recreates these famous train journeys by travelling aboard their nearest modern day equivalents. Sometimes their names have survived, even if only as a footnote on a timetable leaflet, but what has usually - if not always - disappeared is the extravagance and luxury. As Martin explains how we got from there to here, evocations of the Golden Age contrast with the starker modern reality: from monogrammed cutlery to stirring sticks, from silence on trains to tannoy announcements, from compartments to airline seating. For those who wonder whatever happened to porters, dining cars, mellow lighting, timetables, luggage in advance, trunk murders, the answers are all here. Martin's five journeys add up to an idiosyncratic history of Britain's railways, combining humour, historical anecdote and reportage from the present and romantic evocations of the past.

Download or read book The Railway Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Somerset Ways written by Great Western Railway (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book By Rail to the Ends of the Earth written by Kenneth Westcott Jones and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The 10 30 Limited written by Walter George Chapman and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Trains Now Departed written by Michael Williams and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOMETIMES you come across a lofty railway viaduct, marooned in the middle of a remote country landscape. Or a crumbling platform from some once-bustling junction buried under the buddleia. If you are lucky you might be able to follow some rusting tracks, or explore an old tunnel leading to...well, who knows where? Listen hard. Is that the wind in the undergrowth? Or the spectre of a train from a golden era of the past panting up the embankment? These are the ghosts of The Trains Now Departed. They are the railway lines, and services that ran on them that have disappeared and gone forever. Our lost legacy includes lines prematurely axed, often with a gripping and colourful tale of their own, as well as marvels of locomotive engineering sent to the scrapyard, and grand termini felled by the wrecker's ball. Then there are the lost delights of train travel, such as haute cuisine in the dining car, the grand expresses with their evocative names, and continental boat trains to romantic far-off places. The Trains Now Departed tells the stories of some of the most fascinating lost trains of Britain, vividly evoking the glories of a bygone age. In his personal odyssey around Britain Michael Williams tells the tales of the pioneers who built the tracks, the yarns of the men and women who operated them and the colourful trains that ran on them. It is a journey into the soul of our railways, summoning up a magic which, although mired in time, is fortunately not lost for ever. THIS EDITION REVISED AND UPDATED TO INCLUDE MAPS.

Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Travelling by Train in the Edwardian Age written by Philip Unwin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1979, Travelling by Train in the Edwardian Age is a book for the steam train enthusiast, but it is much more than that: it is as well a fascinating social document reflecting an important aspect of Edwardian times. From boyhood memories the author calls to life the sights, sounds and smells of the railways in their heyday, when an express train was the fastest thing on earth: the unforgettable whiff of steam, coal dust, and oil; the colourful liveries of the numerous companies; the characteristic voices of the engines and their whistles; the décor and the motion of the gaslit carriages with their strict division into classes. The author stresses that the cheap, comfortable travel was made possible by the arduous and long hours, and often dangerous labour, of drivers, foremen, signalmen and other railway staff. He pays tribute to their loyalty and expertise in the face of often exceptionally difficult circumstances and crude equipment. The author gives due attention to the important developments during the period in locomotive and rolling stock design, station architecture and signalling technology. The many rare period photographs combine with the author’s vivid memories and evident enthusiasm to make this a uniquely informative and entertaining book.