British Pullman Trains

Author : Charles Fryer
Publisher : Silver Link
ISBN 13 : 9781857942590
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Pullman Trains written by Charles Fryer and published by Silver Link. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title reveals a fascinating and comprehensive record of a bygone era, one that catered for an exclusive creme de la creme of rail travellers, and gave rise to some remarkable vehicles, motive power units and train performances. It looks at an era of ultra luxury - of wood and silver service dining.

Author : Charles Fryer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780947971786
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Pullman Trains written by Charles Fryer and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008516022
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder on the Orient Express: The Graphic Novel (Poirot) written by Agatha Christie and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2024-10-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience Agatha Christie’s puzzling masterpiece as you've never seen it before with this official graphic novel adaptations!

Author : James B. Sherwood
Publisher : Robson Books
ISBN 13 : 9781849541879
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orient-Express written by James B. Sherwood and published by Robson Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1977 the French national railways announced they were taking the Orient-Express, the world's most fabled train, out of service. The public outcry which followed caught the attention of Jim Sherwood. Sherwood bought two of the last four remaining carriages, then set out on a trip across Europe to track down enough original 1920s carriages, with their exquisite Art Deco marquetry and Lalique glass, to make a full train. In 1982, the lovingly restored Venice Simplon-Orient Express set off from Victoria Station for Venice, almost exactly 100 years after it had first carried passengers on their exotic journeys across the continent. Orient-Express Hotels today owns some of the great hotels of the world, all bought by Sherwood over a period of last 30 years. It also owns two other de luxe trains - the Eastern & Oriental carries passengers from Singapore to Bangkok, and the Hiram Bingham runs down through the Sacred Valley of the Incas to Machu Picchu in Peru. The purchase and restoration of each train and grand hotel has its own extraordinary story behind it, which is wittily and compellingly told.

Author : R.W. Kidner
Publisher : Oakwood Press
ISBN 13 : 9780853615316
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pullman Trains in Britain written by R.W. Kidner and published by Oakwood Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Williams
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409052346
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trains Now Departed written by Michael Williams and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOMETIMES you come across a lofty railway viaduct, marooned in the middle of a remote country landscape. Or a crumbling platform from some once-bustling junction buried under the buddleia. If you are lucky you might be able to follow some rusting tracks, or explore an old tunnel leading to...well, who knows where? Listen hard. Is that the wind in the undergrowth? Or the spectre of a train from a golden era of the past panting up the embankment? These are the ghosts of The Trains Now Departed. They are the railway lines, and services that ran on them that have disappeared and gone forever. Our lost legacy includes lines prematurely axed, often with a gripping and colourful tale of their own, as well as marvels of locomotive engineering sent to the scrapyard, and grand termini felled by the wrecker's ball. Then there are the lost delights of train travel, such as haute cuisine in the dining car, the grand expresses with their evocative names, and continental boat trains to romantic far-off places. The Trains Now Departed tells the stories of some of the most fascinating lost trains of Britain, vividly evoking the glories of a bygone age. In his personal odyssey around Britain Michael Williams tells the tales of the pioneers who built the tracks, the yarns of the men and women who operated them and the colourful trains that ran on them. It is a journey into the soul of our railways, summoning up a magic which, although mired in time, is fortunately not lost for ever. THIS EDITION REVISED AND UPDATED TO INCLUDE MAPS.

Author : Venice Simplon Orient Express Inc
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Pullman Train, Day Excursions 1984 written by Venice Simplon Orient Express Inc and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Larry Tye
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466818751
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rising from the Rails written by Larry Tye and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A valuable window into a long-underreported dimension of African American history."—Newsday An engaging social history that reveals the critical role Pullman porters played in the struggle for African American civil rights When George Pullman began recruiting Southern blacks as porters in his luxurious new sleeping cars, the former slaves suffering under Jim Crow laws found his offer of a steady job and worldly experience irresistible. They quickly signed up to serve as maid, waiter, concierge, nanny, and occasionally doctor and undertaker to cars full of white passengers, making the Pullman Company the largest employer of African American men in the country by the 1920s. In the world of the Pullman sleeping car, where whites and blacks lived in close proximity, porters developed a unique culture marked by idiosyncratic language, railroad lore, and shared experience. They called difficult passengers "Mister Charlie"; exchanged stories about Daddy Jim, the legendary first Pullman porter; and learned to distinguish generous tippers such as Humphrey Bogart from skinflints like Babe Ruth. At the same time, they played important social, political, and economic roles, carrying jazz and blues to outlying areas, forming America's first black trade union, and acting as forerunners of the modern black middle class by virtue of their social position and income. Drawing on extensive interviews with dozens of porters and their descendants, Larry Tye reconstructs the complicated world of the Pullman porter and the vital cultural, political, and economic roles they played as forerunners of the modern black middle class. Rising from the Rails provides a lively and enlightening look at this important social phenomenon. • Named a Recommended Book by The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Seattle Times

Author : compiled from Wikipedia entries and published byby DrGoogelberg
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291079734
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classic British Steam Locos written by compiled from Wikipedia entries and published byby DrGoogelberg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-06-11 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: do you want to know everything on steam locos, how they work? Read about the technology and lots of steam locos like the flying Scotsman. Compiled from Wikipedia pages and published by dr Googelberg.

Author : David Meara
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445672332
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anglo-Scottish Sleepers written by David Meara and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, illustrated throughout, David Meara tells the fascinating story of hundred years of Scottish sleeper services.