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Author : Oswald Stevens Nock
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Railway Race to the North written by Oswald Stevens Nock and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Wragg
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 147382236X
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Race to the North written by David Wragg and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-01-21 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century, some of Britains leading main-line railway companies threw caution to the winds in an attempt to provide the fastest passenger express services between London and Scotland. These became known as the races to the north. There were two phases, in 1888 and 1895, and they spurred the building of new bridges across the Firth of Forth and Firth of Tay.David Wraggs gripping, detailed narrative tells the story of this epic engineering and commercial competition. He concentrates on the determination of the railway companies to see who could provide the fastest schedule between London and the main Scottish cities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth, Dundee and Aberdeen.Casting aside their early policy of co-existence on these prestigious and lucrative routes, the West Coast and East Coast companies were drawn into a period of intense, highly publicized rivalry as they sought to dominate the market. David Wragg gives an insight into the conduct of the well-publicized highs and tragic lows of this dramatic story the extension of the lines to the far north, the building of the Tay and Forth bridges including the collapse of the first Tay bridge with 72 fatalities and the repeated bids by the companies to cut the journey times.While he describes the public side of this fascinating story, David Wragg fills in the background, which is no less interesting the pioneering engineering of the steam age, the massive construction projects, the cut-throat battle for passengers and freight and the deep inter-company rivalries that drove the rapid development of the railways during the Victorian period.
Author : Oswald Stevens Nock
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Railway Race to the North written by Oswald Stevens Nock and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. J. Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)
Download or read book Kinnabar, Or, The Great Railway Race of 1895 written by W. J. Scott and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780750908863
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book Racing Trains written by David Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, through the use of press coverage, company records and national archives, recreates the fervour of the Railway Races to the North. The author includes coverage of the race itself and assesses the performance of the trains and crews.
Author : Allan Mitchell
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571811660
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Great Train Race written by Allan Mitchell and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The breadth of [this] comparative study of French and German railroad development - the largest and most important railway systems on the continent - is a signal achievement... A brief sketch of the book's trajectory does justice neither to the wealth of detail nor to the arresting insights that future historians will draw on for years to come." - Central European History "... a fine book. Indeed, it is a labour of love, informed by intensive research and a lifetime's interest. All historians of European railways will be greatly in its debt." - The International History Review "The Great Train Race is a well-researched book, full of useful comparative insights into French and German railway development, and doubtless an important contribution to the history of Franco-German rivalry before World War One ... [R]ecommended to economic historians as a study which shows, in well-balanced comparative perspective, the great importance of their field for understanding political history." - Journal of Modern History "For Mitchell, this was clearly a labor of love, and it is a pleasure to see a job well done. The book has a full scholarly apparatus along with vital charts and maps to keep things clear." - H-German "Allan Mitchell is presenting, with The Great Train Race, a highly informed and ambitious study, in which the fundamental importance of trains for the societies of both countries has been convincingly argued." - Historische Zeitschrift "...Presents a rich and understandable overview...The book provides an excellent model for researching and writing comparative railway histories. Such analyses of the relationship between state and railway are rare events." - The Journal of Transport History From their origins, railways produced an intense competition between the two major continental systems in France and Germany. Fitting a new technology into existing political institutions and social habits, these two nations became inexorably involved in industrial and commercial rivalry that eventually escalated into the armed conflict of 1914. Based on many years of research in French and German archives, this study examines the adaptation of railroads and steam engines from Britain to the continent of Europe after the Napoleonic age. A fascinating example of how the same technology, borrowed at the same time from the same source, was assimilated differently by the two continental powers, this book offers a groundbreaking analysis of the crossroads of technology and politics during the first Industrial Revolution.
Author : Allan Mitchell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781845451363
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Great Train Race written by Allan Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From their origins, railways produced an intense competition between the two major continental systems in France and Germany. Fitting a new technology into existing political institutions and social habits, these two nations became inexorably involved in industrial and commercial rivalry that eventually escalated into the armed conflict of 1914. Based on many years of research in French and German archives, this study examines the adaptation of railroads and steam engines from Britain to the continent of Europe after the Napoleonic age. A fascinating example of how the same technology, borrowed at the same time from the same source, was assimilated differently by the two continental powers, this book offers a groundbreaking analysis of the crossroads of technology and politics during the first Industrial Revolution.
Author : Wilfred L. Steel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)
Download or read book The History of the London & North Western Railway written by Wilfred L. Steel and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This non-technical history of the LNWR covers the piecemeal development of the railway system, its most interesting engineering features, its more famous locomotives, the improvements in train services, and includes a brief financial history of the company.
Author : Mark Casson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199213976
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)
Download or read book The World's First Railway System written by Mark Casson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first history of the British railway system written from a modern economic perspective. It uses conterfactual analysis to construct an alternative network to represent the most efficient alternative rail network that could have been constructed given what was known at the time - the first time this has been done.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)
Download or read book To-day written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
