The GWR Handbook

Author: David Wragg
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750985429
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 343

Book Description
For many the GWR was synonymous with holidays by the sea in the West Country, but it was built to serve as a fast railway line to London, especially for the merchants and financiers of Bristol. Its operations stretched as far as Merseyside, it provided most services in Wales, and it was the main line to Cardiff, Bristol, Cornwall and Birmingham.This book, a classic first published in 2006, reveals the equipment, stations, network, shipping and air services, bus operations including Western National, and overall reach and history of the GWR.Forming part of a series, along with The LMS Handbook, The LNER Handbook and The Southern Railway Handbook, this new edition provides an authoritative and highly detailed reference of information about the GWR.

A Historical Dictionary of Railways in the British Isles

Author: David Wragg
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1781596654
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 654

Book Description
Railways played a key role in Britain's social, economic and industrial history. These companies have long since gone, but all over the country relics remain to remind us of that pioneering age. David Wragg's Historical Dictionary of Railways in the British Isles is a comprehensive, single-volume reference guide to the old railway companies and their heritage. He provides brief histories of the companies and their many-sided activities, and he gives biographies of the men who created the rail network. He covers what is now the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland as well as the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. His book is essential reading and reference for enthusiasts of every region and period of railway history.

Government, the Railways and the Modernization of Britain

Author: Charles Loft
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135773661
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
This work explains the background to, and politics behind, the infamous Beeching Report, which recommended the closure of a third of Britain's railways.

The Railway Magazine

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages :

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The Railway Dictionary

Author: Alan Arthur Jackson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780905778167
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
A wide-ranging reference work to guide both enthusiast and professional through the often specialist language that has developed during the last two hundred years. International in scope, the dictionary covers all aspects of railway terminology, past and present.

Railway Photographic Advertising in Britain, 1900-1939

Author: Alexander Medcalf
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319708570
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243

Book Description
This book explores the phenomenal resources dedicated to understanding and encouraging passengers to consume travel from 1900 to 1939, analysing how place and travel were presented for sale. Using the Great Western Railway as a chief case study, as well as a range of its competitors both on and off the rails, Alexander Medcalf unravels the complex and ever-changing processes behind corporate sales communications. This volume analyses exactly how the company pictured passengers in the countryside, at the seaside, in the urban landscape and in the company’s vehicles. This thematic approach brings transport and business history thoroughly in line with tourism and leisure history as well as studies in visual culture.

The LMS Handbook

Author: David Wragg
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750969148
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 420

Book Description
The London Midland & Scottish Railway was the largest of the Big Four railway companies to emerge from the 1923 grouping. It was the only one to operate in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as having two short stretches of line in the Irish Republic. It was also the world’s largest railway shipping operator and owned the greatest number of railway hotels. Mainly a freight railway, it still boasted the best carriages, and the work of chief engineer Sir William Stanier influenced the first locomotive and carriage designs for the nationalised British railways.Packed with facts and figures as well as historical narrative, this extensively illustrated book is a superb reference source that will be of interest to all railway enthusiasts.

Seen Locally

Author: Henry Pluckrose
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351012533
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 133

Book Description
Originally published in 1989, Henry Pluckrose, well-known as an educational consultant, writer, and lecturer, examines the way in which a study of the local environment can enrich young children’s learning and be used as a starting point for all manner of cross-curriculum work. He explores the ways in which men and women of the past have shaped the physical environment in which contemporary children live and how these changes are reflected in and commented upon by public buildings, their own homes, systems of transport, the streets of village, town, and city, and so on. Written specially for all who have responsibility for young children – teachers, youth leaders, parents – the book offers a wealth of suggestions for helping children look at their everyday environment. It indicates ways in which close observation of place can provide the starting point in a learning programme, showing how information which adult and child obtain together can be recorded through pictures, models, maps, plans, and photographs, and in the written and spoken word. Seen Locally is an invaluable source book of ideas which can be developed and extended within the curriculum guidelines of each individual school.

Railway Walks

Author: Jeff Vinter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780862997229
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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The Fair Sex: Women and the Great Western Railway

Author: Rosa Matheson
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752474324
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
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.