Download or read book Lost Railways of the Chilterns written by Leslie Oppitz and published by Countryside Books (GB). This book was released on 2000 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features an illustrated history of the lost lines of the Chilterns, the reasons for their construction and closure.
Download or read book Chilterns Railways Remembered written by Leslie Oppitz and published by . This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forgotten Railways written by R. Davies and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railways of the Chilterns written by Patrick Bennett and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the rail scene around the picturesque Chilterns. Illustrated throughout with historic and modern photographs, maps, diagrams and timetables.
Download or read book Signal Failure written by Tom Jeffreys and published by Influx Press. This book was released on 2017-04-13 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One November morning, Tom Jeffreys set off from Euston Station with a gnarled old walking stick in his hand and an overloaded rucksack. His aim was to walk the 119 miles from London to Birmingham along the proposed route of HS2. Needless to say, he failed. Over the course of ten days of walking, Jeffreys meets conservationists and museum directors, fiery farmers and suicidal retirees. From a rapidly changing London, through interminable suburbia, and out into the English countryside, Jeffreys goes wild camping in Perivale, flees murderous horses in Oxfordshire, and gets lost in a landfill site in Buckinghamshire. Signal Failure weaves together poetry and politics, history, philosophy and personal observation to form an extended exploration of people and place, nature, society, and the future. In part, Signal Failure is the story of the author's multiple shortcomings – his inability to understand the city he lives in, to forge a meaningful relationship with his home-county hometown, to emulate those great nature writers he admires so much, to put up a tent or read a map. It is also a wide-ranging critique of humanity's most urgent failures: of capitalism, of community, of the city and the suburbs, of architecture and agriculture, of bureaucratic democracy, and, in the end, of our age-old failure to find our place in the world we live in.
Download or read book Discovering Lost Railways written by Frederick George Cockman and published by . This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost Railways of South Wales written by Mike Hall and published by Countryside Books (GB). This book was released on 2009 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost Railways of South Wales
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 Discovering Britain s Lost Railways written by Paul Atterbury and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost Railways of Gloucestershire written by Stan Yorke and published by Countryside Books (GB). This book was released on 2009 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost Railways of Gloucestershire
Download or read book Lost Railways of Oxfordshire written by Terry Moors and published by Lost Railways. This book was released on 2009 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost Railways of Oxfordshire
Download or read book Berkshire s Lost Railways written by Peter Dale and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost Railways of Middlesex written by Mike Hall and published by Countryside Books (GB). This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the area's railway lines from their opening in the 19th century, their heyday at the turn of the century, and in many cases, their closure in the 20th century.
Download or read book Lost Railways of Shropshire written by Leslie Oppitz and published by Countryside Books (GB). This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost Railways of Shropshire
Download or read book Lost Railways of East Sussex written by Marie Panter and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost Railways of Wiltshire written by Justin Bailey and published by Countryside Books (GB). This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated book covers the history of the county's railways from construction in the 1840s to, in many cases, closure in the 1960s. Includes Brunel's GWR and branch lines across the region.
Download or read book The Lost Railways of Yorkshire s East Riding written by Neil Burgess and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
