Author: David GridleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780956412805
Category : Essex (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The Lost Railways of Essex
Author: Neil BurgessPublisher:
ISBN: 9781840336702
Category : Essex (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
In the popular imagination Essex is associated with the urban and industrial strip of land reaching out from east London along the north bank of the Thames, a place of car factories, oil refineries, warehouses and commuter housing, but Essex is also a county with rolling countryside, small villages and picturesque towns. Although the railway netowrk in Essex has fared better than elsewhere the losses are shown here, together with dates and vital statistics, and include Ongar, Tiptree, Thorington, Canning Town, Halstead, Saffron Walden, Takely, Felstead, Earls Colne and many others.
Author: Robin JonesBritain's Lost Railways
Author: John MinnisPublisher: Aurum
ISBN: 1781317739
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The beautifully restored St Pancras Station is a magisterial example of Britain’s finest Victorian architecture. Like the viaducts at Belah and Crumlin, cathedral-like stations such as Nottingham Victoria and spectacular railway hotels like Glasgow St Enoch's, it stands proud as testament to Britain's architectural heritage. In this stunning book, John Minnis reveals Britain's finest railway architecture. From the most cavernous engine sheds, like Old Oak Common, through the eccentric country halts on the Tollesbury line and the gantries of the Liverpool Overhead Railway, to the soaring viaducts of Belah and Cumlin, Britain’s Lost Railways offers a sweeping celebration of our railway heritage. The selection of images and the removable facsimile memorabilia, including tickets, posters, timetables and maps, allows the reader to step into that past, serving as a testimony to an age of ingenuity and ambition when the pride we invested in our railways was reflected in the grandeur of the architecture we built for them.
Author: James KembleTracing Lost Railways
Author: Trevor YorkePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1784423696
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The drastic railway closures of the 1960s led to the slow decay and re-purposing of hundreds of miles of railway infrastructure. Though these buildings and apparatus are now ghosts of their former selves, countless clues to our railway heritage still remain in the form of embankments, cuttings, tunnels, converted or tumbledown wayside buildings, and old railway furniture such as signal posts. Many disused routes are preserved in the form of cycle tracks and footpaths. This colourfully illustrated book helps you to decipher the fascinating features that remain today and to understand their original functions, demonstrating how old routes can be traced on maps, outlining their permanent stamp on the landscape, and teaching you how to form a mental picture of a line in its heyday.
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Author: Trevor YorkeLost Railways of Sussex
Author: Leslie OppitzPublisher: Countryside Books (GB)
ISBN: 9781853066979
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Traces the history of the county's railway lines, from their opening in the 19th century, their heyday around the turn of the century, and, in many cases, their closure in the 20th century.
Author: Paul Atterbury