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Author: Stephen Johnson Publisher: ISBN: 9781840334272 Category : Railroads Languages : en Pages : 48
Book Description
The remote and beautiful county of Donegal provides the back-drop for this history of railway building and decline in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In the retrospective collection of photographs and fascinating accompanying details, the adventure and romance of rail travel in its heyday is captured for the reader to enjoy.
Author: Stephen Johnson Publisher: ISBN: 9781840334272 Category : Railroads Languages : en Pages : 48
Book Description
The remote and beautiful county of Donegal provides the back-drop for this history of railway building and decline in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In the retrospective collection of photographs and fascinating accompanying details, the adventure and romance of rail travel in its heyday is captured for the reader to enjoy.
Author: Nigel Welbourn Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport ISBN: 1399096206 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 258
Book Description
Many readers will be familiar with Nigel Welbourn’s long running series of books, covering lost railways in Britain and Ireland. This new book Lost Railways of the World is the latest by this author on the subject of disused railways. The material for this volume has been collected and researched over a period of almost fifty years of world travel by the author. Informative text records the fortunes of the world’s lost railways and every country with significant disused railways is included. Lost railways are a unifying theme, being found throughout the world, from the hottest African desert to the coldest steppes of Russia. The book has a surprisingly British flavor as historically many railways throughout the world used British equipment and operating practices. On his first trip in the 1970s the author discovered British signaling equipment in Europe. In 2020 he discovered the same firms’ equipment in South America. The world’s top ten lost lines are listed, from the seven-mile-long sea bridge on a line that ran through the Florida Keys, to the rugged mountain splendor of the Khyber Pass Railway. Some of the oldest, largest, longest, most northerly, southerly, expensive, crookedest, steepest, highest, lowest and most notorious lost railways are included. Quirky and other unique tales from lost railways are included, such as the disappearing phantom bridge, a line destroyed by molten lava, to one that sank under the sea, another that conveyed giant turtles, to a memorial to a brave railway elephant. The author also visited remote areas of Argentina and provides more information on the mysterious disappearance of the ex-Lynton & Barnstaple Railway locomotive Lew. A large number of the 300 color illustrations have not been published before, maps and stories from around the world will delight not only the railway enthusiast, but appeal to a wider cadre of readers with an interest in nostalgia, history, geography and travel. To some the book will be an informative source of information, to others it is written in a way that highlights the most amazing lost railways in the world, but either way it is a fascinating and unique book.
Author: Robert Robotham Publisher: ISBN: 9781898392422 Category : Languages : en Pages : 72
Book Description
The County Donegal Railway was the largest narrow gauge system, not only in Ireland but in the whole of the British Isles. This book draws on the work of photographers such as E.S. Russell, J.G. Dewing, John Langford and James Tawse, as well as the Colour Rail Archive, to produce an album that captures the atmosphere of The Wee Donegal. The book also includes track diagrams of the major stations and gradient profiles of each route and the introduction gives a history and description of the lines.
Author: E. M. Patterson Publisher: ISBN: 9781780730554 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
New edition of Dr Patterson's history of the narrow-gauge County Donegal Railway. This edition adds interviews with workers and others who had contact with the railway, a chapter on the railway today as much can still be seen of the former network, and some additional Glover drawings of locomotive, carriage and wagon stock.
Author: Robert Robotham Publisher: ISBN: 9781904242024 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
A second album of colour photographs of County Donegal Railways including some rare views from the early 1950s. The book follows a thematic approach, focusing on principal stations and on locomotives, railcars and carriages.
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