The Struggle For The Cornwall Railway

Author : Hugh Howes
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ISBN 13 : 9780906294741
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Struggle for the Cornwall Railway written by Hugh Howes and published by . This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recalling the epic and arduous efforts needed to build Cornwall's main railway line, Hugh Howes details the leading engineers, landowners and business people who were instrumental in its creation.

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Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Railway Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Osler
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Cornwall Railway written by Edward Osler and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joan Passey
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786839938
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cornish Gothic, 1830-1913 written by Joan Passey and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book asks why so many authors drew on Cornwall for inspiration across the long nineteenth century, and considers the seismic cultural changes in Cornwall that spurred this interest – from the collapse of the mining industry to the developing national rail network; from the birth of tourism to the neomedieval rise in interest in King Arthur. Understanding frequently overlooked Cornwall in this period is vital to understanding Gothic literature, the Victorian imagination, intellectual and creative networks, and attitudes towards regionality. The first part of the book considers landscape and legend, defining a mining Gothic tradition, exposing the shipwreck as Gothic mastertrope, and demonstrating how antiquarians drew from Cornish legends and lore. The second part explores encounters with modernity, investigating the impact of railway expansion on access to Cornwall, the development of a Cornish King Arthur as a key figure of Victorian masculinity, and the specific features of the Cornish ghost story.

Author : David Turnock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351958933
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Historical Geography of Railways in Great Britain and Ireland written by David Turnock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although a great deal has been published on the economic, social and engineering history of nineteenth-century railways, the work of historical geographers has been much less conspicuous. This overview by David Turnock goes a long way towards restoring the balance. It details every important aspect of the railway’s influence on spatial distribution of economic and social change, providing a full account of the nineteenth-century geography of the British Isles seen in the context of the railway. The book reviews and explains the shape of the developing railway network, beginning with the pre-steam railways and connections between existing road and water communications and the new rail lines. The author also discusses the impact of the railways on the patterns of industrial, urban and rural change throughout the century. Throughout, the historical geography of Ireland is treated in equal detail to that of Great Britain.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1064 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Herapath's Railway Magazine, Commercial Journal, and Scientific Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David J Wroe
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ISBN 13 : 9781871608632
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Illustrated History of the North Cornwall Railway written by David J Wroe and published by . This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David L. Brandon
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526700220
Total Pages : 655 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Railway Haters written by David L. Brandon and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique social history examines 200 years of controversy surrounding British Railways—from the dawn of industrialization to contemporary light rail. During the Industrial Revolution, the power of landowning aristocrats was challenged by the emergent wealth and influence of the urban middle class. There was no greater symbol of this seismic shift in society than the British Railways Companies. Railways, with their powers of compulsory purchase, intruded brutally into the previously sacrosanct estates and pleasure grounds of Britain's traditional ruling elite. Aesthetes like Ruskin and poets like Wordsworth ranted against railways; Sabbatarians attacked them for providing employment on the Lord's Day; antiquarians accused them of vandalism by destroying ancient buildings; others claimed their noise would make cows abort and chickens cease laying. And while the complaints have certainly changed, railways have continued to provoke debate ever since. Arguments have raged over railway nationalization and privatization, about the Beeching Plan to increase efficiency, and around urban light rail systems. Examining railways from their beginnings to the present, this book provides insights into social, economic and political attitudes and emphasizes both change and continuity over 200 years.

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Total Pages : 1468 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Railway Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 1468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Felix Jeschke
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789207770
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iron Landscapes written by Felix Jeschke and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the newly formed country of Czechoslovakia built an ambitious national rail network out of what remained of the obsolete Habsburg system. While conceived as a means of knitting together a young and ethnically diverse nation-state, these railways were by their very nature a transnational phenomenon, and as such they simultaneously articulated and embodied a distinctive Czechoslovak cosmopolitanism. Drawing on evidence ranging from government documents to newsreels to train timetables, Iron Landscapes gives a nuanced account of how planners and authorities balanced these two imperatives, bringing the cultural history of infrastructure into dialogue with the spatial history of Central Europe.