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| Author | : Jan Dobrzynski |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 151 |
| Release | : 2013-01-20 |
| Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
| ISBN | : 0747813140 |
In 1838 Thomas Edmondson, an employee of the fledgling Newcastle & Carlisle Railway, revolutionised the ticket issuing process in Britain and left an enduring legacy: the Edmondson ticket. Purchased as proof of the contract between passenger and railway company, the ticket was a receipt, travel pass and an ephemeral record of almost every train journey ever taken in the British Isles, reflecting the nostalgia of the railways and a period of history when the movement of millions of people brought together England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The railways printed millions of tickets for every conceivable journey and category of passenger. Most were destroyed after use, but remarkably many survive, in the care of libraries, museums and collectors, and form the basis of a fascinating hobby.
| Author | : North British railway |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 1881 |
| Genre | : Railroads |
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| Author | : James Harvey Watson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 56 |
| Release | : 1870 |
| Genre | : Railroads |
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| Author | : James Harvey Watson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 38 |
| Release | : 1870 |
| Genre | : Railroads |
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| Author | : Ian Carter |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2017-10-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1526129744 |
Now available in paperback, this is the first academic book to study railway enthusiasts in Britain. Far from a trivial topic, the post-war train spotting craze swept most boys and some girls into a passion for railways, and for many, ignited a lifetime’s interest. British railway enthusiasm traces this post-war cohort, and those which followed, as they invigorated different sectors in the world of railway enthusiasm – train spotting, railway modelling, collecting railway relics – and then, in response to the demise of main line steam traction, Britain’s now-huge preserved railway industry. Today this industry finds itself riven by tensions between preserving a loved past which ever fewer people can remember and earning money from tourist visitors. The widespread and enduring significance of railway enthusiasm will ensure that this groundbreaking text remains a key work in transport studies, and will appeal to enthusiasts as much as to students and scholars of transport and cultural history.
| Author | : James Harvey Watson |
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| Total Pages | : 24 |
| Release | : 1870 |
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| Author | : David Smith |
| Publisher | : Gresley |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 2020-02-08 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 1911658700 |
The first railway chemical laboratory was opened in 1864 by the London & North Western Railway at Crewe, and the last ones lost their direct link to the rail industry on their privatisation in 1996. Whatever their expertise, every railway chemist or 'stink' has been asked the same question: “What do you actually do”? That is precisely the question this book attempts to answer. It covers many aspects of the work, from a BR chemist going to San Francisco to blow up a water melon to declaring an empty coal wagon a confined space; from whitewashing a passenger train, in service, in a couple of seconds to questioning, on chemical grounds, the mental state of the chairman of British Rail; from gassing weevils to setting fire to a canal in Derby. British Railway Stinks tells the unusual, astonishing and sometimes downright hilarious story of the railway ‘nuts’ who decided what exactly the ‘wrong kind of leaves’ were.
| Author | : Robin Jones |
| Publisher | : Gresley |
| Total Pages | : 167 |
| Release | : 2020-02-08 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 1911658719 |
This is the story of how Britain’s railway disasters, horrific though they may be, change the network for the better through the crucial lessons that are learned. It starts with fatalities on early mining tramways before the dawn of the steam age and takes the story up to the present day. While many of Britain’s worst tragedies are covered in depth, such as Quintinshill in 1915 and Harrow & Wealdstone in 1952, the book also looks at others that had resounding consequences for safety.
| Author | : Greg Morse |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 65 |
| Release | : 2013-08-10 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 0747814104 |
For British Rail, the 1970s was a time of contrasts, when bad jokes about sandwiches and pork pies often belied real achievements, like increasing computerisation and the arrival of the high-speed Inter-City 125s. But while television advertisements told of an 'Age of the Train', Monday morning misery continued for many, the commuter experience steadily worsening as rolling stock aged and grew ever more uncomfortable. Even when BR launched new electrification schemes and new suburban trains in the 1980s, focus still fell on the problems that beset the Advanced Passenger Train, whose ignominious end came under full media glare. In British Railways in the 1970s and '80s, Greg Morse guides us through a world of Traveller's Fare, concrete concourses and peak-capped porters, a difficult period that began with the aftershock of Beeching but ended with BR becoming the first nationalised passenger network in the world to make a profit.
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| Total Pages | : 656 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Railroads |
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