Author: G. T. HeavysidePublisher:
ISBN: 9780715375136
Category : Locomotives
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Steaming Into the Eighties
Author: G. T. HeavysidePublisher:
ISBN: 9780715375136
Category : Locomotives
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Steaming In
Author: Colin WardPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471126056
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Colin Ward spent much of the 1970s and 1980s on the terraces of football grounds around the country, and following England across the continent. It was a time when passionate support of your team did not mean wearing the team shirt and subscribing to your club's TV station. Instead, it often meant having to defend your part of the stadium against attacks from opposition fans, confrontations with the police, and some decidedly hair-raising encounters. Although, post-Hillsborough, this seems like a vanished era, the world of the football hooligan still has the power to fascinate. No one has captured the atmosphere with the same authenticity as Ward, who reveals the truth behind the easy headlines: the camaraderie, the unexpected friendships between rival groups, the characters who attained near mythical status. Controversial, provocative and above all brilliantly told, Steaming Intakes the reader right to the heart of the action.
Narrow Gauge Into the Eighties
Author: G. T. HeavysidePublisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Mainline Steam Into the 1980s
Author: Peter J. C. SkeltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Renewable Energy in the Eighties
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Energy Development and ApplicationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Energy conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
The Age of Steam
Author: Lucius BeebePublisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9780883940792
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Portrays 125 years of steam engine operations on the railroad.
Steam Automobile Vol. 12, No. 4
Author: Steaming to Victory
Author: Michael WilliamsPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409051897
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
In the seven decades since the darkest moments of the Second World War it seems every tenebrous corner of the conflict has been laid bare, prodded and examined from every perspective of military and social history. But there is a story that has hitherto been largely overlooked. It is a tale of quiet heroism, a story of ordinary people who fought, with enormous self-sacrifice, not with tanks and guns, but with elbow grease and determination. It is the story of the British railways and, above all, the extraordinary men and women who kept them running from 1939 to 1945. Churchill himself certainly did not underestimate their importance to the wartime story when, in 1943, he praised ‘the unwavering courage and constant resourcefulness of railwaymen of all ranks in contributing so largely towards the final victory.’ And what a story it is. The railway system during the Second World War was the lifeline of the nation, replacing vulnerable road transport and merchant shipping. The railways mobilised troops, transported munitions, evacuated children from cities and kept vital food supplies moving where other forms of transport failed. Railwaymen and women performed outstanding acts of heroism. Nearly 400 workers were killed at their posts and another 2,400 injured in the line of duty. Another 3,500 railwaymen and women died in action. The trains themselves played just as vital a role. The famous Flying Scotsman train delivered its passengers to safety after being pounded by German bombers and strafed with gunfire from the air. There were astonishing feats of engineering restoring tracks within hours and bridges and viaducts within days. Trains transported millions to and from work each day and sheltered them on underground platforms at night, a refuge from the bombs above. Without the railways, there would have been no Dunkirk evacuation and no D-Day. Michael Williams, author of the celebrated book On the Slow Train, has written an important and timely book using original research and over a hundred new personal interviews. This is their story.
European Steam in the 1970s
Author: Paul BrysonPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445693496
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Stunning photographs, many previously unpublished, of steam trains on railways around Europe. This is a superb look back on a decade of European steam power.
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