A History Of The Great Western Railway Being The Story Of The Broad Gauge

Author : George Augustus Nokes
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781290903738
Total Pages : 402 pages
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Download or read book A History of the Great Western Railway; Being the Story of the Broad Gauge written by George Augustus Nokes and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : George Augustus Nokes
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
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Author : G. A. Sekon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book A History of the Great Western Railway written by G. A. Sekon and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Augustus Nokes
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781498135702
Total Pages : 388 pages
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Download or read book A History of the Great Western Railway written by George Augustus Nokes and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1895 Edition.

Author : G. A. Sekon
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260068354
Total Pages : 390 pages
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Download or read book A History of the Great Western Railway written by G. A. Sekon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the Great Western Railway: Being the Story of the Broad Gauge Here is another example of wasted energy. At the commencement of the past year a discussion arose, in an engineering journal, concerning the third-class parliamentary fares charged on the Great Western Railway. I joined in the correspondence, and promised to devote a chapter of this book to the subject. After I had gone to considerable trouble in obtaining full information on the question, the Great Western Directors decided that from tst july 1894 third-class fares on their railway should be abolished, and only one penny per mile charged for third class passengers. This was clearly a case of 'love's labour lost.' Critical readers will no doubt find that some errors more or less important have crept into the work, and I shall feel indebted to any of them who will point out such slips. Nor do I expect the opinions I have expressed in this book to pass unquestioned; indeed, one of our most notable railway officials, who did me the honour of revising the description of an incident in which he was prominently concerned, at one part of the account observed 'that is a matter of opinion only, ' so that even he did not in that particular agree with me. In the railway and engineering journals to which I contribute, articles from my pen rightly receive critical treatment from the readers; nor is this criticism always of the most gentle description, as the following extracts from a critic's remarks will show: Mr Sekon says that Mr should have profited by the experience of his predecessor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Andrew Roden
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781781310151
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Great Western Railway written by Andrew Roden and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roden’s comprehensive new history of this remarkable railway company tells the story of nothing less than the opening-up of the isolated Southwest of England to the trade and tourism of the modern age. It has left us with soaring termini like Paddington and Bristol Temple Meads as well as glorious railway institutions like the Night Riviera overnight sleeper to Cornwall that endure to this day (not least thanks to the author’s own campaigning!). While the GWR’s green locomotives and chocolate and cream carriages may have given way to purple, anyone who wants to return to the golden age of the railways will find the company’s history an enthralling journey.

Author : George Augustus Sekon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Author : G. A. Sekon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780862995034
Total Pages : 400 pages
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Download or read book A History of the Great Western Railway written by G. A. Sekon and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Terence MacDermot
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Total Pages : 486 pages
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Download or read book History of the Great Western Railway: (in 2 parts). 1833-1863 written by Edward Terence MacDermot and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ken Gibbs
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750965959
Total Pages : 183 pages
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Download or read book The Steam Rail Motors of the Great Western Railway written by Ken Gibbs and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-propelled carriages were a major innovation at the beginning of the twentieth century, and the GWR was quick to develop a large number of steam motor cars to link farms and scattered villages across the South West to the new branch lines. Their steam motor cars ran from 1903 to 1935, stopping during the war, and were so effective at making rural areas accessible they became victims of their own success. Wagons brought in to meet the high demand proved too heavy for the carriages and they struggled on hills. Soon the steam rail motor services were in decline. After its cancellation all ninety-nine steam carriages were eventually scrapped. Engineer Ken Gibbs reveals the unique GWR carriages, a window into early twentieth-century transport, and the modern replica he helped build, now the only way of viewing these charming historic vehicles.