Author: Henry OliverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Hand-book and Appendix of Stations, Junctions, Sidings, Collieries, &c., on the Railways in United Kingdom
Author: Henry OliverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Rebuilding the Welsh Highland Railway
Author: Peter JohnsonPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473869919
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
THE REVIVAL AND RESTORATION of the Welsh Highland Railway is one of the greatest heritage railway achievements of the 21st Century, yet its success followed more than one hundred years of failure.Supported by public loans, its first incarnation combined the moribund North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways, some of the abandoned works of the Portmadoc, Beddgelert & South Snowdon Railway and part of the horse-worked Croesor Tramway. Opened in 1923, it was closed in 1937 and the track was lifted in 1941.Serious talk of revival started in the 1960s but restoration did not start until 1997, with the neighbouring Ffestiniog Railway at the helm, supported by generous donors and benefactors, the Millennium Commission, the Welsh Government and teams of enthusiastic volunteers.Author Peter Johnson steers a course through the railways complicated pre-history before describing the events, including a court hearing, three public inquiries and a great deal of controversy, leading to the start of services between Caernarfon and Porthmadog in 2011. A postscript describes post-completion developments.
The Railway Magazine
Author: Local and Personal Acts
Author: Great BritainThe Heraldic Register, 1849-1850
Author: Bernard BurkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Devices (Heraldry)
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Colonel Stephens Light Railway Locomotives
Author: Brian JanesPublisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 1399023462
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Holman Fred Stephens (1868-1931) set himself up in the 1890s as an engineer and manager of the complete light railway as evolved by Victorian theorists to serve rural districts as yet bereft of the benefit of cheaper transport. To them, a light railway was not an assemblage of second-hand mainline equipment of dubious merit but of fit for purpose, new material. This ideal theory did not survive the near universal inability to raise sufficient capital to build and equip a light railway that would give a reasonable profit. Recourse was therefore made to the second-hand market. Stephens became a master at the art of building and running railways with the minimum of capital. The history of the mechanical performance of his railways was also nearly always handicapped with inadequate engineering facilities. This left staff struggling, often surprisingly successfully, with a menagerie of locomotive types. Limited standardisation was practised but most often expediency ruled. This gave rise to a glorious kaleidoscope of locomotives the history of each of which is outlined This variety was further colored by Stephens generally regarding a locomotive name as far more important than its number.
Public Bills
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of LordsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
The St. James's Magazine
Author: Bernard BurkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heraldry
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Narrow Gauge Railways
Author: Peter JohnsonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0747813922
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
Narrow gauge railways, so well suited to difficult, mountainous terrain, were built in many of the UK's most scenic locations. Their genesis was in mines and quarries where they replaced manor horse-pulled wagons, but their adaptability meant that by the 1860s they were also carrying passengers, in some cases over quite considerable distances. Today a good proportion of all the important lines survive in the service of tourists, whose appreciation of the landscape, and the railways themselves, keep these relics of industrial Britain alive in all their variety. Peter Johnson has been researching and writing about narrow gauge lines for many years, and this is the perfect introduction to a rich and appealing corner of British railway history.
Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1888
Author: Great Britain. Board of TradePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description