Great Western Railway Stations

Author : Allen Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781445670119
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Western Railway Stations written by Allen Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps more has been written about the Great Western Railway than any other, and the company is regarded with the most affection. The combination of an unbroken history, engineering icons of the Victorian era, holiday destinations and a visual appeal in their design work went a long way in keeping the GWR in pole position. The stations and other structures have long enjoyed the admiration of many and are a quintessential ingredient of the GWR recipe for remembrance. Change has always been with us on the railways and none more so than in the twenty-first century, where much of the GWR scene is to be swept away under the wires of electrification. The GWR proposed electrification of the Taunton to Penzance route in the 1930s and would have carried it out if they'd had the cash so, eighty years later, this change has an air of inevitability about it. Great Western Railway Stations is a last look at much of the GWR architecture, some of which is listed, and aims to present a lavishly illustrated overview of what remains of the old company.

Author : Allen Jackson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445670127
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Western Railway Stations written by Allen Jackson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated survey of a wide range of GWR stations.

Author : Andrew Roden
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781781310151
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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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 : David R.P. Guay
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459732847
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Western Railway of Canada written by David R.P. Guay and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2015-12-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was one of the great railways that opened up Canada, and played a huge role in the development of Hamilton, the site of its head offices. Yet the rise and fall of the Great Western Railway has been almost lost to memory. David R.P. Guay provides the authoritative book of a great Canadian railway that history forgot.

Author : Great Western Railway (Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Western Railway Official Guide, 1909 written by Great Western Railway (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David J. Fiore
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738540481
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chicago Great Western Railway written by David J. Fiore and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chicago Great Western Railway (CGW) was a Midwestern line that operated in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, Kansas, and Nebraska for 83 years. This book provides nostalgic images and photographs of the operations, employees, locomotives, and stations of a little railroad that is now only a memory.

Author : Chris Leigh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book G.W.R. Country Stations written by Chris Leigh and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gwyn Briwnant-Jones
Publisher : National Museum Wales
ISBN 13 : 9780720004250
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Western Railway in Wales written by Gwyn Briwnant-Jones and published by National Museum Wales. This book was released on 1995 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Colin Maggs
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 144561300X
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Great Western Railway written by Colin Maggs and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative history of the most iconic railway company of the great age of steam.

Author : Rosa Matheson
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752474324
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fair Sex: Women and the Great Western Railway written by Rosa Matheson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Western Railway struggled with what was called 'the women question' for many years. It had heartily agreed with The Railway Sheet and Official Gazette that 'the first aim of women's existence is marriage, that accomplished, the next is ordering her home'. Yet women were the cheapest form of labour, apart from young girls, presenting the company with a dilemma and the GWR finally succumbed to allowing women to work after heavy external pressures. Using over 100 pictures, Swindon author Rosa Matheson traces the development of this problematic relationship, from its beginnings in the 1870s when women were employed as sewers and netters at Swindon Works, through the changes wrought by the two world wars and the entry of women into railway offices - fiercely opposed by the company and by the unions and many men who resented sharing the lowly paid but prestigious title of 'clerk' with women. The book also uses many original documents and forms as well as written and oral testimonies providing first-hand insights into the women's experiences.