Download or read book The Cambridge to King s Lynn Line written by Mike Beckett and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously unpublished photographs documenting the many changes experienced by this railway line since electrification.
Download or read book The World s First Railway System written by Mark Casson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British railway network was a monument to Victorian private enterprise. Its masterpieces of civil engineering were emulated around the world. But its performance was controversial: praised for promoting a high density of lines, it was also criticised for wasteful duplication of routes. This is the first history of the British railway system written from a modern economic perspective. It uses conterfactual analysis to construct an alternaive network to represent the most efficient alternative rail network that could have been constructed given what was known at the time - the first time this has been done. It reveals how weaknesses in regulation and defects in government policy resulted in enormous inefficiency in the Victorian system that Britain lives with today. British railway companies developed into powerful regional monopolies, which then contested each other's territories. When denied access to existing lines in rival territories, they built duplicate lines instead. Plans for an integrated national system, sponsored by William Gladstone, were blocked by Members of Parliament because of a perceived conflict with the local interests they represented. Each town wanted more railways than its neighbours, and so too many lines were built. The costs of these surplus lines led ultimately to higher fares and freight charges, which impaired the performance of the economy. The book will be the definitive source of reference for those interested in the economic history of the British railway system. It makes use of a major new historical source, deposited railway plans, integrates transport and local history through its regional analysis of the railway system, and provides a comprehensive, classified bibliography.
Download or read book The Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Eastern Railway Cambridge Line written by George S. Measom and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cambridge Station written by Rob Shorland-Ball and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why build a Railway to Cambridge? This is the first substantive illustrated book about Cambridge Station which explores the opening of the station in 1845; the four principal railway companies which all worked to and from the station in a tangle of mutual inconvenience; the extensive goods traffic which was handled in the several goods yard around the station; and the way the Station operated from early beginnings, to what Abellio East Anglia and Network Rail offer today. Cambridge Station is renowned for having one of the longest single platforms in the UK, served by Up and Down trains. Ingenious trackwork and extensive signalling could satisfy passengers who were told at the central booking hall entrance: 'Turn left for Kings Lynn or right for London.' The book contains several pictures never before published, showing how the Eastern Counties and then the Great Eastern Railway Companies contrived Cambridge Station and the Engine Sheds, Goods Yards, Signal Boxes and extensive sidings to serve East Anglia. And it tells people stories too, because the author worked on the station in the 1950s and 1960s and knows Cambridge and East Anglia well. He is a geographer and writes with knowledge, wisdom and humour.
Download or read book British Railway Trains Sstations Book Two written by Mark Chatterton and published by Hadleigh Books. This book was released on 2017-02-12 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Railway Trains & Stations Book Two - East Anglia gives details of fifteen different railway stations found in the area of East Anglia and the trains that pass through them. It includes the stations of Norwich, Colchester, Ipswich, Cambridge, Peterborough and Ely, and has many colour photographs
Download or read book The Way the Truth and the Dead written by Francis Pryor and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeologist and detective, Alan Cadbury, returns for his second adventure. In The Lifers’ Club, he unravelled the background to a violent death on an archaeological dig in the Fens, a wild marshy region in the east of England. The Way, the Truth and the Dead takes us to the black peatlands of the south, around the glorious cathedral city of Ely. It’s a watery landscape where the many ancient dykes, drains and rivers conceal dark secrets. Alan finds himself the Director of an important Roman and early Medieval excavation at the little hamlet of Fursby, not far from Littleport. But shortly before he starts work, he is contacted by his old friend, Detective Chief Inspector Richard Lane. Lane needs help – a body has been found in a river near the dig. And the dead person is an archaeologist, an old friend of Alan’s. It soon becomes clear that this will be no ordinary excavation: the remains are of national importance and their preservation is outstanding. So it comes as no surprise when a major television series decides to adopt it as a flagship project, opening the dig up to the public at a time when the rural community would rather keep things quiet...
Download or read book A Z London written by Geographers' A-Z Map Company and published by Hunter Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2002 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London cabbies train for years and the London A-Z is their bible. This highly detailed city atlas is found in every car in the country. It shows all the streets, lanes and courtyards, as well as train stations, gardens, parks and points of interest. 40,000 thoroughfares are indexed. All-color maps for easy reading. Don't go to London without this book.
Download or read book Great Eastern Railway Magazine written by London and North Eastern Railway and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Where to Watch Birds in East Anglia written by David Callahan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: East Anglia – the jewel in the crown of British birding. The counties of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire represent the most popular region for birders and naturalists to visit in the British Isles, whether to see wintering flocks of geese and waders, rare vagrants, scarce breeding birds such as cranes and bitterns, or just to soak up the countryside, be it fen, broad, coastal dune, breckland, heath or down. This new book by David Callahan is the definitive guide to the birding highlights of the region. It contains a comprehensive review of all the major sites, and many lesser-known ones, with maps, notes on access, and information on target species and when to visit. Where to Watch Birds in East Anglia is indispensable for any birder heading to this bird-rich corner of England.
Download or read book The Railway Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Britain written by Karl Baedeker (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Macmillan Guide to the United Kingdom 1978 79 written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-25 with total page 1075 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Railway and Commercial Gazetteer of England Scotland and Wales seventeenth Edition Containing a Complete List arranged in Alphabetical Order of Every Railway Station Town Village Hamlet Parish Place in Great Britain written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Eastern Since 1948 written by Geoffrey Freeman Allen and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book East London Railways written by Malcolm Batten and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malcolm Batten examines the way in which the railways of East London have changed and developed over the years, bringing the story right up to date with the introduction of Crossrail.
Download or read book Signal Boxes and Semaphores written by Gordon D. Webster and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the decline of mechanical signalling in the UK.
Download or read book Eccentric Britain written by Benedict Le Vay and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2005 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful romp around the British Isles searching out the mad marquess, the eccentric earl, the barmy baron, and the daft duke and gathering a fair collection of crackpot inventors, weird adventurers and fascinatingly and not to mention insanely curious customs along the way. All of which make this rainy little island home to that remarkable breed of individual - the British eccentric.This expanded book still doesn't tell you where Stonehenge is, but it does tell you where ten spookier stone circles are where there will be no crowds, no admission charges and no parking problems... This is a book for the intelligent, humorous, curious tourist who doesn't go with the crowd. It is also a great armchair read that has been known to have readers weeping with mirth at the weird ways of the British.
