Electrifying The East Coast Route

Author : Peter William Brett Semmens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780850599299
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Electrifying the East Coast Route written by Peter William Brett Semmens and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sequel to Speed on the East Coast Main Line is a history of British Rail's largest investment programme for 25 years - the electrification of the East Coast Main Line, which will be completed in May 1991. The book covers its engineering, locomotive rolling-stock and signalling.

Author : Andrew Martin
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1782830251
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Belles and Whistles written by Andrew Martin and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the heroic days of rail travel, you could dine on kippers and champagne aboard the Brighton Belle; smoke a post-prandial cigar as the Golden Arrow closed in on Paris, or be shaved by the Flying Scotsman's on-board barber. Everyone from schoolboys to socialites knew of these glamorous 'named trains' and aspired to ride aboard them. In Belles and Whistles, Andrew Martin recreates these famous train journeys by travelling aboard their nearest modern day equivalents. Sometimes their names have survived, even if only as a footnote on a timetable leaflet, but what has usually - if not always - disappeared is the extravagance and luxury. As Martin explains how we got from there to here, evocations of the Golden Age contrast with the starker modern reality: from monogrammed cutlery to stirring sticks, from silence on trains to tannoy announcements, from compartments to airline seating. For those who wonder whatever happened to porters, dining cars, mellow lighting, timetables, luggage in advance, trunk murders, the answers are all here. Martin's five journeys add up to an idiosyncratic history of Britain's railways, combining humour, historical anecdote and reportage from the present and romantic evocations of the past.

Author : Andrew Everett
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075095681X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visionary Pragmatist: Sir Vincent Raven written by Andrew Everett and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2006-05-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the "Railway Magazine" of January 2000 published the results of its Millennium Poll, Sir Vincent Raven gained a 42nd place, along with Thomas Newcomen and Arthur Peppercorn. This is the biography of this engineer, illustrated with contemporary archive photographs, portraits and ephemera.

Author : Richard Pryke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000314960
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Rail Problem written by Richard Pryke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book formulates a new strategy for the railways, trying to discover how much traffic British Rail can hope to obtain. It looks at two fundamental assumptions on which the Board's case for a large and virtually open-ended subsidy rests.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Northeast Corridor Improvement Project, Electrification, New Haven to Boston [CT,MA] written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Conference on Main Line Railway Electrification written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kenneth Button
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9782881240614
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Applied Transport Economics written by Kenneth Button and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1985 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Institute of Transport (London, England)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal written by Institute of Transport (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : E. A. Gibbins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain's Railways written by E. A. Gibbins and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christian Wolmar
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241456215
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Rail written by Christian Wolmar and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2022-06-09 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authoritative and fascinating history of the rise and fall of the state-owned British Rail 'Wolmar's book is impeccably organised and makes a fast, enjoyable read' THE TIMES Literary Supplement________ British Rail wasn't how we're asked to remember it . . . From ancient rolling stock to patchy service, stale sandwiches to the wrong kind of snow, British Rail - our last great state-owned organisation to be privatised - has received a terrible press. But after its controversial 1948 creation, British Rail was actually an innovative powerhouse that over five decades transformed the UK, creating one of the fastest regular rail services in the world. Award-winning journalist Christian Wolmar takes us from promise to punchline, exploring British Rail's birth into post-war austerity, the many battles and struggles to evolve what many considered to be a dinosaur, and how, at the height of its success, the service was misunderstood and unfairly maligned, ruthlessly broken up and privatised._______ Praise for Christian Wolmar 'Wolmar is the high priest of railway studies' Literary Review 'The greatest expert on British trains' Guardian 'Our most eminent transport journalist' Spectator 'If the world's railways have a laureate, it is surely Christian Wolmar' Boston Globe 'Christian Wolmar is in love with the railways. He writes constantly and passionately about them. He is their wisest, most detailed historian and a constant prophet of their rebirth . . . if you love the hum of the wheels and of history, then Christian Wolmar is your man' Observer