Download or read book Severn Valley Railway Recollections written by Phil Sowden and published by Railways & Recollections. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume in the Recollections series to focus on The SVR. The first volume barely touched on one of the biggest events to involve the railway-the storm damage that occurred during 2007 and the work involved in rebuilding the The Severn Valley Railway. This was such a major occurrence that you could fill a book on it...
Download or read book Just Call Me Hays written by Hays Thomas Watkins and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under Hays leadership, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, fondly known as "Chessie", and the CSX grew from its regional railroad origins into the world's first integrated, international transportation company.
Download or read book Railways to Victory written by Vic Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railways in the British Landscape written by Robin Coombes and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breathtaking selection of photographs showcasing railway journeys as a part of the British landscape.
Download or read book The Train in Spain written by Christopher Howse and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a book about trains but about the variety of Spain. Bestselling author Christopher Howse makes ten great railway journeys that explore the interior of the peninsula, its astonishing landscapes and ancient buildings. The focus is the way the Spanish live now: their habits, streets, characters, stories – and quite a bit about their eating and drinking. Christopher Howse has been travelling around Spain for 25 years, and has now made a 3,000 mile circumnavigation by train from the top of the Pyrenees – through the vulture-haunted wilds of Extremadura and the Spaghetti Western deserts of the south, to the ancient hilltop city of Cuenca and beyond. On the way he meets troglodytes, visits a city ruined by an earthquake, runs into a dancing lion, stumbles across a body-snatching plot and tries out a recipe for acorn pie. An entertaining exploration of a much-loved country, The Train in Spain gives a fascinating and entirely original portrait of a strange land at a time of great change.
Download or read book The Last Decade of British Railways Steam written by Gavin Morrison and published by Haynes Publishing UK. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This attractive, large-format book shows steam locomotives at work throughout the country, in all weathers and in a year-by-year presentation, accompanied by the author’s knowledgeable commentary. Good-quality colour photographs of the last days of the steam age are rare. Many of those that do exist have been published repeatedly, but the 250 colour photographs featured in this book, taken between 1958 and 1968, are an exception. It is believed that the photographer and author, 76-year-old Gavin Morrison, has Britain’s largest personal collection of color slides still in the hands of the original photographer.
Download or read book Trains of Recollection written by D. B. Hanna and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book provides a first-hand account of the railway developments in Scotland and Canada, as told by the author, David Blyth Hanna, who was president of the Canadian National Railways in 1919.
Download or read book The Maine Two footers written by Linwood W. Moody and published by Heimburger House Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1959 this is the story of the two-foot-gauge railroads of Maine, including the Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes, the Monson, the Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington, the Edaville and the Kennebec Central.
Download or read book Steam on the Kettle Valley written by Robert D. Turner and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Years of BR Steam in Wessex written by Philip Horton and published by Silver Link Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Secret Projects of the Luftwaffe in Profile written by Daniel Uhr and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second World War was a time of tremendous technological progress in aviation with innovations such as jet engines and swept wings being brought in as engineers on all sides desperately sought every possible performance advantage. In Germany, the quest for better aircraft resulted in some astonishing designs - everything from bombers with forward-swept wings to ramjet fighters and disposable rocket-propelled interceptors.In Secret Projects of the Luftwaffe in Profile, renowned aviation artist Daniel Uhr has brought the original German construction sketches and three-views of these designs to life like never before - offering a whole new perspective on images previously only seen as black and white line drawings.Accompanying Daniel's artworks is a full description of the competitions and requirements which produced such a huge number of innovative and unusual designs during the war, as well as descriptions of the designs themselves, written by German Second World War aircraft development specialist Dan Sharp and based on the latest historical research.
Download or read book Life on the Victorian Railways written by Nick Anchen and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorian Railways of old was far more than just a transport business - it was a great railway family, where employees were treated as valued members of the organisation. Life on the Victorian Railways explores a bygone era, through the recollections and humorous stories of a selection of railwaymen who performed a variety of roles, such as Lad Labourer, Junior Clerk, Engine Cleaner, Steam Fitter, Train Guard, Passenger Train Conductor, Ticket Examiner, Station Master, Train Controller and District Superintendent.From the grimy North Melbourne Locomotive Depot to the glamorous Southern Aurora express train, dedicated railwaymen and women across the state carried out their often unseen duties, and contributed to the day-to-day operations of the grand, traditional old 'VR' - that proud institution now consigned to the pages of history.
Download or read book The Struggle for Imperial Unity Recollections Experiences written by George T. Denison and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the development of Canada as a dominion of Great Britain. It charts the history of the British Empire League in Canada and the development of Canada as a separate entity from the original 13 colonies in what is now the USA. The author was a founder member of the Brtish Empire League and later its president.
Download or read book The Railroads of King of Prussia PA written by Michael Stefan Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2013 is the 175th anniversary of the year railroads first entered Upper Merion Township. Resident and historian, Michael Shaw, spent the better part of a year diligently researching the history of King of Prussia's railroads, from the past to the present. Here's the scoop on the glorious and often understated history of Upper Merion's railroads, from the Merion/Abrams Yard site to the Trenton Cut-Off and through the Chester Valley Railroad. The future of the rails may lead back to the past with a reintroduction of passenger service. Climb aboard!
Download or read book The Rail the Body and the Pen written by Brian Cowlishaw and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-08-11 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the best-known British authors of the 1800s were fascinated by the science and technology of their era. Dickens included spontaneous human combustion and "mesmerism" (hyptnotism) in his plots. Mary Shelley created the immortal Dr. Victor Frankenstein and his creature. H.G. Wells imagined the Time Machine, the Invisible Man, and invaders from Mars. Percy Shelley was as infamous at Oxford for his smelly experiments and for his atheism. This book of essays explores representations of technology in the work of various nineteenth-century British authors. Essays cluster around two important areas of innovation-- transportation and medicine. Each essay contributor accessibly maps out the places where art and science meet, detailing how these authors both affected and reflected the technological revolutions of their time.
Download or read book Recollections of Bar and Bench written by Richard Everard Webster Alverstone (Viscount) and published by London : Edward Arnold. This book was released on 1914 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recollections of France written by Sarah Blowen and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1980s, France has experienced a vigorous revival of interest in its past and cultural heritage. This has been expressed as part of a movement of remembering through museums and festivals as well as via elaborate commemorations, most notably those held to celebrate the bi-centenary of the Revolution in 1989 and can be interpreted as part of a re-examinaton of what it means to be French in the context of ongoing Europeanization. This study brings together scholars from multidisciplinary backgrounds and engages them in debate with professionals from France, who are working in the fields of museology, heritage and cultural production. Addressing subjects such as war and memory, gastronomy and regional identity, maritime culture and urban societies, they throw fresh light on the process by which France has been conceptualized and packaged as a cultural object.
