The Rural Transport Problem (Routledge Library Edtions: Global Transport Planning)

Engineering & Transportation

St John Thomas, David

Automotive

Routledge

In his thinking traveler's tour, David St John Thomas journeys by rail and Little Car around Britian, exploring the diverse character of Britian today. St John gives a new perspective on Britian through the people and places he visits on his journey.

Journey Through Britain: Landscape, People and Books

History

Europe

Frances Lincoln Ltd.

Possibly read more than any other railway book, The Country Railway has sold over 170,000 copies. This is a redesigned edition of the original text and photographs. Everyone loved the country railway with its neat stations and colourful gardens, the shining brasswork of its tank engines, viaducts daringly built over gushing rivers, embankments carpeted with flowers, and guards whose appearance and voice as well as the traffic they carried in their vans reflected exactly the character of the terrain being served. Basing his work on deep historical research and rich personal experience, David St John Thomas lovingly portrays the branch and cross-country railway in all its nostalgic, technical and commercial aspects. He tells of the days of high expectation when the local promoters first met and chose the architectural style for their stations, sees the navvies at work hacking through the countryside, reports the arrival of the first trains, recalls the troubled realisation when traffic receipts failed to provide enough for dividends. Stations, signalboxes, engines and their men, coaches and trucks, cattle docks and railway pubs, junctions and termini, varied landscapes, special occasions and disasters! In words and pictures here is a unique study for railway enthusiasts and for those who just miss the passing of the country railway.

Country Railway

Frances Lincoln

The Country Railway

Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd

Bradshaw's April 1910 railway guide;: A new edition of the April 1910 issue of Bradshaw's General Railway and Steam Navigation Guide for Great Britain and Ireland

David and Charles

The Great Days of the Country Railway

<p>This celebration of the country lines in their heyday captures the total experience of railway life - the sights, the sounds, the smells and the very essence of the steam age. Ten authoritative chapters cover particular aspects of country railways, from the stations to the engines, passengers to freight, and are interspersed with a wealth of anecdotes and quotations, cameo studies and illustrations. There are features from around the British Isles and many different periods in history, but with an emphasis on the immediate post-war years that many readers will remember, and which the authors conclude were the railways' greatest days.</p>

The great days of the country railway

Arts & Photography

Religious

David&Charles

Summer Saturdays in the West

GRAY, Peter

Rocksborough Smith, Simon

Atlantic Transport Publishers

Updated edition of a volume that is often referred to as the Bible among West Coast railway enthusiasts. Covers the birth of railways from Wessex to Cornwall -- their origin, planning, construction, operation and often their closing amidst some of the most picturesque countryside in the nation. The railways brought this remote region within a few hours of London, probably the most important economic and social event in the region's history. The book also interweaves the story of Issambard Kingdom Brunel and his efforts to build a broad gauge network. Illustrated with black and white photos and maps, including a foldout one attached to the rear board. 313 pages with index.

A Regional History of the Railways of Britain: West Country (Regional Railway History Series)

Transportation

The story of the 305 miles of railway from Paddington to Penzance captured in words and pictures. It recounts the early days of the broad gauge and atmospheric trains, through the time of the first 100mph trains to the present day of the InterCity expresses.

The Great Way West: The History and Romance of the Paddington-Penzance Route

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