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| Author | : Oliver Green |
| Publisher | : Frances Lincoln Children's Books |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2021-11-23 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 0711266611 |
A lavish photographic history of all the key railway stations of London for transport buffs and anyone interested in the rich history of London.
| Author | : Oliver Green |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 66 |
| Release | : 2022-04-28 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 1784425060 |
An illustrated historical tour of London's 13 great railway termini, on a clockwise circuit from Paddington to Victoria. London's railway termini are among the most recognisable and familiar landmarks in the city. Famed for their bustling platforms and architectural innovation, they comprise a fascinating mixture of Neo-Gothic exuberance and purposeful modernity. Though each owes its existence to a long-extinct Victorian railway company, these stations continue to be central to London life, with millions of visitors passing through every year. This historical whistlestop tour takes you on a circuit of London's thirteen great railway termini, from Paddington, through King's Cross, to Victoria. Ranging from the earliest stations to the latest restorations and ongoing developments, this beautifully illustrated book examines both their legacy and their future.
| Author | : Chris Heather |
| Publisher | : The Crowood Press |
| Total Pages | : 323 |
| Release | : 2018-10-23 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 0719827655 |
Built as part of the massive expansion of Great Britain's railway network during the nineteenth century, London's thirteen mainline railway stations are proud symbols of the nation's industrial and architectural heritage. Produced in association with The National Archives, and profusely illustrated with period photographs and diagrams, London Railway Stations tells the story of these iconic stations and of the people who created them and used them. Though built in an age of steam, smoke, gas lamps and horses, most retain features of their original design. This book will bring new light to these old buildings, and help you to see London's mainline stations through new eyes. Lavishly illustrated with black & white and some colour photographs.
| Author | : Simon Jenkins |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2017-09-28 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 0241978998 |
Discover the architectural gems that are Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations in this Sunday Times top 10 bestseller 'This is a cracker . . . a beautiful book' Chris Evans It is the scene for our hopeful beginnings and our intended ends, and the timeless experiences of coming and going, meeting, greeting and parting. It is an institution with its own rituals and priests, and a long-neglected aspect of Britain's architecture. And yet so little do we look at the railway station. Simon Jenkins has travelled the length and breadth of Great Britain, from Waterloo to Wemyss Bay, Betws-y-Coed to Beverley, to select his hundred best railway stations. Blending his usual insight and authority with his personal reflections and experiences - including his founding the Railway Heritage Trust - the foremost expert on our national heritage deftly reveals the history, geography, design and significance of each of these glories. Beautifully illustrated with colour photographs throughout, this joyous exploration of our social history shows the station's role in the national imagination; champions the engineers, architects and rival companies that made them possible; and tells the story behind the triumphs and follies of these very British creations. These are the marvellous, often undersung places that link our nation, celebrated like never before. 'However spectacular the book's photographs, it's the author's prowess as a phrase-maker that keeps you turning the pages' The Times 'An uplifting exploration of our social history' Guardian
| Author | : Christian Wolmar |
| Publisher | : Atlantic Books (UK) |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2022-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781786499226 |
London hosts a dozen major railway stations, more than any comparable city. King's Cross, St Pancras, Euston, Marylebone, Paddington, Victoria, Charing Cross, Cannon Street, Waterloo, London Bridge, Liverpool Street and Fenchurch Street--these great termini are the hub of London's transport system and their complex history, of growth, decline and epic renewal has determined much of the city's character today. Christian Wolmar tells the dramatic and compelling story of how these great cathedrals of steam were built by competing private railway companies between 1836 and 1900, reveals their immediate impact on the capital and explores the evolution of the stations and the city up to the present day.
| Author | : Allen Jackson |
| Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 2017-04-15 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 1445670127 |
A lavishly illustrated survey of a wide range of GWR stations.
| Author | : Ben Pedroche |
| Publisher | : Capital Transport |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Subway stations |
| ISBN | : 9781854143525 |
Abandoned tunnels, derelict stations, old trackbeds and much more. All are included in this entertaining and informative book that guides the reader through London's many remaining disused railway structures.
| Author | : John Betjeman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 111 |
| Release | : 2001-04-01 |
| Genre | : Railroad stations |
| ISBN | : 9781854142542 |
| Author | : Laurence Waters |
| Publisher | : Pen and Sword Transport |
| Total Pages | : 393 |
| Release | : 2020-09-30 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 1526740397 |
An authoritative history of the railways of Oxford and how they transformed the United Kingdom, from the mid-nineteenth century to the twenty-first. In Railways of Oxford, historian Laurence Waters looks at the development of services and operations from Great Western’s opening of the Oxford Railway in 1844 through to the present day. This volume covers the development of the railway locally, including the London and North Western ‘Buckinghamshire Railway’ from Bletchley, together with the five local branch lines. The opening of the Great Western / Great Central joint line in 1900 opened up regional travel across the United Kingdom. During the Second World War, the construction of a new junction at Oxford North created a direct link from the Great Western to the London Midland & Scottish Railway branch to Bletchley and beyond. These two junctions turned Oxford into a major railway center, bringing a considerable increase in both passenger and freight traffic. Today, Oxford is as busy as ever, with passenger services to London operated by Great Western Railway and Chiltern Trains, and by Cross Country Trains the South and the North of England.
| Author | : Paul Theroux |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 406 |
| Release | : 2006-06-01 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 054752515X |
The acclaimed author recounts his epic journey across Europe and Asia in this international bestselling classic of travel literature: “Compulsive reading” (Graham Greene). In 1973, Paul Theroux embarked on a four-month journey by train from the United Kingdom through Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. In The Great Railway Bazaar, he records in vivid detail and penetrating insight the many fascinating incidents, adventures, and encounters of his grand, intercontinental tour. Asia's fabled trains—the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Mandalay Express, the Trans-Siberian Express—are the stars of a journey that takes Theroux on a loop eastbound from London's Victoria Station to Tokyo Central, then back from Japan on the Trans-Siberian. Brimming with Theroux's signature humor and wry observations, this engrossing chronicle is essential reading for both the ardent adventurer and the armchair traveler.
