In The Tracks Of The Cornish Riviera Express

Author : Amyas Crump
Publisher : Noodle Books
ISBN 13 : 9781909328228
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Tracks of the Cornish Riviera Express written by Amyas Crump and published by Noodle Books. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a before and after nostalgic portrait of the London to Plymouth route, revealing the many changes that have been wrought to both the main line and branches once served by the legendary Cornish Riviera Express.

Author : Great Western Railway (Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cornish Riviera written by Great Western Railway (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julian Holland
Publisher : F+W Media, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1446356833
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Amazing & Extraordinary Railway Facts written by Julian Holland and published by F+W Media, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another fascinating miscellany that will delight railway buffs everywhere. The branch lines of transport history are fully explored and all who love trains will delight in stories of the old railway companies, famous engines, discontinued lines, and all sorts of other railway trivia.

Author : Edwa Allhusen
Publisher : Old House Books
ISBN 13 : 9781873590751
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through the Window written by Edwa Allhusen and published by Old House Books. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was first published by The Great Western Railway in 1924 to enhance the enjoyment of their passengers on the 305 mile journey from Paddington to Penzance. Maps, line drawings and information about the towns and villages describe the glorious countryside of southern England that could be seen from the windows of The Cornish Riviera Express. This new edition includes 20 pages from Bradshaw's Railway timetables at the time this book was first published. Do you yearn for the days when train journeys were a pleasure? The creaking timbers of the carriages; the aroma of steam and smoke; the rattle and clank of points and the sudden sound of the whistle as you pass an unmanned crossing? This was when the sedate pace of the train, with windows held open by a thick leather strap, allowed time to watch the world go by. How much more you could see in those days! This book was published by The GWR to help their customers enjoy the experience. Each spread has a map and exquisite line drawings describing about six miles of the journey with charming descriptions of the 'long swift journey from London to Land's End that has about it a certain savour of romance, a spice of adventure, which no amount of familiarity of railway travelling can destroy'. We read of 'The Grand Junction Canal with bridges, barges and ducks all doing their best to make it picturesque'; crossing the Thames by the widest brick spanned bridge in the world and seeing the river crowded with punts and rowing boats; hurrying through Royal Berkshire where The River Kennet 'serpentines through a landscape too flat to offer any resistance to its whims and fancies'. Across 'the forbidding expanse of Salisbury Plain', beside The White Horse of Westbury and over the flat lands of Sedgemoor. A glimpse of Exeter Cathedral and the first sight of the sea! On beneath the rugged hills of Dartmoor to the 'tangled forest of shipping in Plymouth Sound'. Over Brunel's 'vast piece of imagination' the Royal Albert Bridge into Cornwall with palms on the platforms and viaducts over wooded valleys. Sandy beaches, rocky headlands and majestic St. Michael's Mount arriving at Penzance in time for tea. This beautifully written book describes more than a wonderful railway journey for it allows us a peep at the great swathe of southern Britain that was so well served by The Great Western Railway.

Author : Geoff Swaine
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1526761890
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London's Historic Railway Terminal Stations written by Geoff Swaine and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers in pictures, the history and development of London's main terminal stations, looking at the stations through the lens of photographers from Victorian and Edwardian times through to the modern era. The main terminal stations in London have changed greatly in the last 150 years, this volume seeks through pictures to capture the spirit of those changes, showing the often interesting and colorful history of these great and often beautiful structures, that are an important part of our railway heritage.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Railway Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241958822
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kingdom by the Sea written by Paul Theroux and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As mentioned in The Times Travel Book Club 2020 Award winning writer Paul Theroux embarks on a journey that, though closer to home than most of his expeditions, uncovers some surprising truths about Britain and the British people in the '80s in The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain. Paul Theroux's round-Britain travelogue is funny, perceptive and 'best avoided by patriots with high blood pressure...' After eleven years living as an American in London, Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise round the coast and find out what Britain and the British are really like. It was 1982, the summer of the Falklands War, the ideal time, he found, to surprise the British into talking about themselves. The result makes superbly vivid and engaging reading. 'A sharp and funny descriptive writer. One of his golden talents, perhaps because he is American and therefore classless in British eyes, is the ability to chat up and get on with all sorts and conditions of British. . . Theroux is a good companion' The Times 'Filled with history, insights, landscape, epiphanies, meditations, celebrations and laments' The New York Times 'Few of us have seen the entirety of the coast and I for one am grateful to Mr Theroux for making my journey unnecessary. He describes it all brilliantly and honestly' Anthony Burgess, Observer American travel writer Paul Theroux is known for the rich descriptions of people and places that is often streaked with his distinctive sense of irony; his other non-fiction titles, Riding the Iron Rooster, The Happy Isles of Oceania, Sunrise with Seamonsters, The Tao of Travel, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, The Old Patagonian Express, The Great Railway Bazaar, Dark Star Safari, Fresh-air Fiend, Sir Vidia's Shadow, The Pillars of Hercules, and his novels and collections of short stories, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize winner The Mosquito Coast are available from Penguin.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1116 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Railway Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 14 pages
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Download or read book Foreign Railway News written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Oswald Stevens Nock
Publisher : Allen & Unwin Australia
ISBN 13 : 9780043850732
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Limited written by Oswald Stevens Nock and published by Allen & Unwin Australia. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: