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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 | : David Smith |
Publisher | : Mortons Books |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2019-11-22 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : |
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 | : Christian Wolmar |
Publisher | : Kemsing Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 1908555017 |
Author | : David L. Brandon |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 655 |
Release | : 2019-04-30 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1526700220 |
This unique social history examines 200 years of controversy surrounding British Railways—from the dawn of industrialization to contemporary light rail. During the Industrial Revolution, the power of landowning aristocrats was challenged by the emergent wealth and influence of the urban middle class. There was no greater symbol of this seismic shift in society than the British Railways Companies. Railways, with their powers of compulsory purchase, intruded brutally into the previously sacrosanct estates and pleasure grounds of Britain's traditional ruling elite. Aesthetes like Ruskin and poets like Wordsworth ranted against railways; Sabbatarians attacked them for providing employment on the Lord's Day; antiquarians accused them of vandalism by destroying ancient buildings; others claimed their noise would make cows abort and chickens cease laying. And while the complaints have certainly changed, railways have continued to provoke debate ever since. Arguments have raged over railway nationalization and privatization, about the Beeching Plan to increase efficiency, and around urban light rail systems. Examining railways from their beginnings to the present, this book provides insights into social, economic and political attitudes and emphasizes both change and continuity over 200 years.
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 | : Rosa Matheson |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2014-05-05 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0750957018 |
A safe mode of transport today, the railways were far from vehicles of sleepy commute when they first came into service; indeed, accidents were commonplace and sometimes were a result of something far more sinister. In this fresh approach to railway history, Rosa Matheson explores the grim and grisly railway past. These horrible happenings include memorable disasters and accidents, the lack of burial grounds for London's dead, leading to the 'Necropolis Railway', the gruesome necessity of digging up the dead to accommodate the railways and how the discovery of dynamite gave rise to the 'Dynamite Wars' on the London Underground in the 1880s and 1890s. Join Rosa as she treads carefully through the fascinating gruesome history of Britain's railways.
Author | : Cuthbert Hamilton Ellis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1955 |
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Author | : Christian Wolmar |
Publisher | : Specialist Marketing International |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1996-01-01 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 9780711024694 |
Author | : Michael Foley |
Publisher | : Wharncliffe |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2014-01-15 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1473831865 |
Passengers on the early railways took their lives in their hands every time they got on board a train. It was so dangerous that they could buy an insurance policy with their ticket. There seemed to be an acceptance that the level danger was tolerable in return for the speed of travel that was now available to them.British Railway Disasters looks at the most serious railway accidents from the origins of the development of the train up to the present day. Seriousness is judged on the number of those who died. Information gleaned from various newspaper reports is compared with official reports on the accidents.The book will appeal to all those with a fascination for rail transport as well as those with a love of history.Michael Foley examines the social context of how injuries and deaths on the railways were seen in the early days, as well as how claims in the courts became more common, leading to a series of medical investigations as to how travelling and crashing at high speed affected the human body
Author | : Andrew Murray |
Publisher | : Verso |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Privatization |
ISBN | : 9781859846407 |
A damning indictment of the chaos on the British railways.