Author: Michael BackPublisher: Middleton Press (MD)
ISBN: 9781906008529
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Branch Lines Around Spalding
Branch Lines Around Spalding
Author: Michael BackPublisher: Middleton Press (MD)
ISBN: 9781906008529
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Branch Lines Around Spalding
Branch Lines Around Towcester
Author: Vic MitchellPublisher: Middleton Press (MD)
ISBN: 9781906008390
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Railway Times
Author: Branch Line Britain
Author: Paul D ShannonPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1399089935
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
This book examines in words and pictures the network of British branch lines and other secondary routes that survived the mass closures of the 1960s. While nearly 4,000 route miles were lost between 1963 and 1970, the cuts were less severe than they might have been. Some lines were reprieved because of their social importance, even though they would never pay their way in purely commercial terms. They included some lengthy rural routes, such as those serving the Far North of Scotland, Central Wales and the Cumbrian Coast, as well as some urban backwaters such as Romford to Upminster and the St Albans Abbey branch. As the 1970s progressed, closures became scarce, but cost-cutting measures included the singling of some lines as well as scaled-down stations and simplified signalling. Yet even today, some pockets of traditional operation survive. Mechanical signal boxes still control many hundreds of miles across the network, in areas as diverse as West Cornwall, East Lincolnshire and South West Scotland. This book also celebrates several reopened and new lines, ranging from the major Borders Railway project in Scotland to the Stansted Airport and Barking Riverside branches in South East England - making the point that the branch line concept is far from dead.
Spalding & Around Through Time
Author: Keith SeatonPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445638282
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Spalding has changed and developed over the last century.
Branch Lines Around Cromer
Author: Richard AddersonPublisher: Branch Lines S.
ISBN: 9781901706260
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Railway Times ...
Author: The Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Northern Railway
Author: George S. MeasomPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1390
Book Description
The Railway Chronicle
Author: Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia
Author: South Australia. ParliamentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 1178
Book Description