The Model-railway Men in America
Author | : Ray Pope |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 1978-01-01 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : 9780354080453 |
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Author | : Ray Pope |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 1978-01-01 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : 9780354080453 |
Author | : Ray Pope |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : 9780552520249 |
Author | : Ray Pope |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : 9780552520409 |
Author | : Ray Pope |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017-04-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780995729117 |
A boy discovers a miniature railway family living in his model railway. Set back in the '70's in a time before the internet the story introduces 'Telford' to the reader and focuses on relationships and the adventures that follow.
Author | : Mitchell Deaver |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2013-01-16 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1477299726 |
Railway Man begins with author Mitchell Deaver paying a nostalgic visit to Bickle signal box, base of boyhood adventures described in his first book Railway Boy. Shortly after, he leaves rural Yorkshire for life in the big cities. It is 1968. Railway Man describes the emotionally devastating draw-down of steam traction on British Railways. Three steam sheds remain: Carnforth, Lostock Hall and Rose Grove. The end comes when the last steam train runs on 11th August. The total steam ban is unbearable. Mitchell Deaver's brainchild, the Return to Steam Committee, tries to get steam back on British Railways. In 1980 Mitchell Deaver achieves a boyhood dream and becomes a signalman on the busy North London Line. Railway Man describes the realities of operating a mechanical signal box, one that is open continuously. Life as a signalman is not without incident. A mischievous letter prompts a visit from senior management. Signal box operations degenerate into a scene from the Marx Brothers. A signalmen's night out turns into a baffling conspiracy. In this true story set in the cities of Birmingham, Liverpool and London and spanning two decades, Railway Man describes a monumental battle between, on one side, Mitchell Deaver's love of railways and, on the other, forces that try to draw him elsewhere. Which side wins?
Author | : Daniel Gray |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2013-08-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1408834375 |
Daniel Gray is about to turn thirty. Like any sane person, his response is to travel to Luton, Crewe and Hinckley. After a decade's exile in Scotland, he sets out to reacquaint himself with England via what he considers its greatest asset: football. Watching teams from the Championship (or Division Two as any right-minded person calls it) to the South West Peninsula Premier, and aimlessly walking around towns from Carlisle to Newquay, Gray paints a curious landscape forgotten by many. He discovers how the provinces made the England we know, from Teesside's role in the Empire to Luton's in our mongrel DNA. Moments in the histories of his teams come together to form football's narrative, starting with Sheffield pioneers and ending with fan ownership at Chester, and Gray shows how the modern game unifies an England in flux and dominates the places in which it is played. Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters is a wry and affectionate ramble through the wonderful towns and teams that make the country and capture its very essence. It is part-football book, part-travelogue and part-love letter to the bits of England that often get forgotten, celebrated here in all their blessed eccentricity.
Author | : R. D. Grillo |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2009-02-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521100779 |
This was the first anthropological monograph to have dealt at length with the labour force of a major East African industry. It is a study of the African employees of the East African Railways and Harbours stationed at Kampala, Uganda, and living on the Railway-owned Nsambya housing estate. Set in the years 1964-5, shortly after Uganda's and Kenya's Independence, the book explores some of the consequences for African migrant workers of the changes affecting their society. Dr Grillo describes how falling prices for primary agricultural products, educational expansion and rising wages have created a high demand for employment. Those fortunate enough to find work enjoy a relatively high standard of living. Partly in consequence, the Railway labour force has become stabilised with a low turnover of employees, the majority of whom bring wives and children to live in town. They are, however, still migrants who maintain social and economic ties with their areas of origin. By fulfilling customary and personal obligations, individuals retain a position within an 'ethnic' system which provides one framework for relationships of solidarity and opposition. The industry itself with its work-units, occupational groups and grading system provides another.
Author | : Philip S. Bagwell |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 737 |
Release | : 2022-12-30 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1000820491 |
Originally published in 1963, The Railwaymen recounts the struggle of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants from its foundation in 1872 until the first national railway strike in 1911 to gain recognition from the companies and a reduction in the excessive hours of labour and the scandalously high accident rate among railwaymen. Two chapters recall the decisive role of the union, through the Taff Vale and Osborne cases in shaping the modern labour movement. Founded through the merging of three unions in 1913, the NUR crossed swords with Lloyd George in the railway strike of 1919 and with Baldwin and Churchill in the general strike. It led the railwaymen through two world wars, helped shape the transport act of 1947 and, after 1951, thought for the re-establishment of an adequate system of public transport.