Download or read book Signalling and Signal Boxes along the GCR Routes written by Allen Jackson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allen Jackson explores signalling along the GCR, formerly part of the LNER.
Download or read book Signalling and Signal Boxes along the GER Routes written by Allen Jackson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allen Jackson explores signalling along the GER, formerly part of the LNER.
Download or read book Signalling and Signal Boxes along the North British Railway Great North of Scotland Railway and the CLC Routes written by Allen Jackson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allen Jackson explores signalling along the North British, Great North of Scotland and CLC railways, formerly part of the LNER.
Download or read book Steam Around York the East Riding written by Mike Hitches and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steam Around York & East Riding relates the development of York’s local railway lines, highlighting the locomotive types which operated in this area of Yorkshire.
Download or read book The Railway Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Railway Engineer written by Lawrence Saunders and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Main Line Operations Around Manchester and the MSW Electrification written by Robert P Pixton and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illustrates one of the country’s best loved railway companies in the days of steam. Maps, charts, timetables and photographs are used to give the reader a sense of a journey from the compact terminus in Manchester to Godley, the limits of the system, at first opening. The reader is transported back to the original London Road station, using maps, and is walked through the small station to notice the variety of engines, signals and trains that operated there. Gorton, the company’s shed and locomotive works as well as its across the track rivals of Beyer, Peacock, are studied. The railway cross-road at Guide Bridge is given due importance and readers may well ponder on the contrast of ruralness of Ardwick, Fairfield and Fallowfield, then, and now. Connections at the joint stations of Stalybridge and Manchester Central station are explored. The latter is expanded to include Old Trafford shed as well as the links to Trafford Park Estate. Included is a review of the impact of electrification on the system, especially the exchanges taking place where the two systems interact. The numerous Joint Lines in this district (to Oldham, Altrincham, Hayfield and Macclesfield) are looked at in a subsequent volume. Pictures, and extensive captions, have been selected to show the variety of engines used and facets of stations or procedures.
Download or read book The Branch Lines of Buckinghamshire written by Colin Maggs and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated title from acknowledged railway expert Colin G. Maggs, presenting the story of Buckinghamshire's branch lines.
Download or read book The East Coast Main Line 1939 1959 Volume 2 written by Peter Tuffrey and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2022-07-02 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • The first detailed study of this huge mainline through its operational history • Features extended commentaries from the authors, rich in detail • Superbly illustrated with black and white photographs, many never seen before In this second and final volume, the whole of the East Coast Main Line between King’s Cross and Edinburgh Waverley stations is examined closely, with a particular emphasis on the ways and structures: the line, stations, connections, yards, and other physical features. Interposed are accounts of the traffic at the principal stations – including connecting and branch line services – with observations on changes over the period 1939 to 1959. Some emphasis is placed on freight traffic on account of its importance and, perhaps, its relative unfamiliarity to the reader. The lines, stations and many other elements are described as they were in August 1939, but as some plans on which they are based are dated before the late 1930s, there may be marginal differences from the precise layout in 1939.
Download or read book Two Centuries of Railway Signalling written by G. M. Kichenside and published by Haynes Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the development of railway signalling, from the earliest days through the introduction of the disc and crossbar signal, to semphores and color lights and the modern communications systems of the 1990s.
Download or read book The Great Central Railway written by John Palmer and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2021-01-30 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sets out to address what really happened . . . through its LNER days and into British Railways custodianship . . . A well-researched and presented tome.” —Key Model World For generations of railway enthusiasts and more lately for social historians, the life and times of the former Great Central Railway and in particular its extension towards London in the 1890s and closure seventy years later, have generated considerable interest and controversy. Although many books have been written about the Railway, the majority in recent times have concentrated upon providing a photographic record and a nostalgic look in retrospect to what was generally perceived as happier times for the route. None of the books have presented the outcome from thorough research into the business aspects of the Railway and its successive private (LNER) and public (BR) ownerships through war and peace, and times of industrial, social and political change, that influenced and shaped the demand for a railway service. While retaining a strong railway theme throughout, the book identifies the role played by successive governments, the electricity and coal industries and the effect of social change that, together resulted in a case for closure. The content of the book replaces much supposition with fact and places on record what really happened. The final part of the book acknowledges the fine work over half a century of volunteers dedicated to saving a section of the line in Leicestershire. “A valuable addition to the social and political history of railways.” —The Railway Correspondence and Travel Society
Download or read book The Railway Grouping 1923 to the Beeching Era written by Bob Pixton and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When King George V ascended to the throne in 1910, world trade was increasing and at home the countrys private enterprise railways were booming with larger trains and more freight being carried than ever before. Over the next fifty years the country had experienced not one, but two world wars. Railways had been forcefully reorganized, not once but twice, eventually becoming state owned. With the Government now in control of the railways finances, reformation was on the horizon in the medicine of Dr. Beeching. This volume sets out to chart the passage of the railways during these turbulent times. Contrary to popular belief, life on the railways during these times was not all doom and gloom but times of innovation, competition, new buildings, new lines and the spread of electrification. This was the era of faster, larger, non-stop expresses, streamlined trains: we even showcased our best trains abroad, not once but twice! More and more people were taking holidays by trains and holiday camps emerged. Challenging the position of steam engines were new diesel locomotives. The Festival of Britain (1951) and the Coronation of Elizabeth (1953) saw the country emerge from the devastation and crippling debt after World War 2. On the horizon were devastating rivals that wounded the previously unassailable position of steam trains: motor lorries and family cars. With looming unsustainable finances, the Government solicited external help to help sort out matters.
Download or read book Railway Signal written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Railway Encyclopaedia written by Ernest Frank Carter and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Railway Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railway Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1959-06-26 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railway Signaling and Communications written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
