Author: Colin Gordon MaggsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Rail Centres, Bristol
Author: Colin Gordon MaggsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Rail Centres, Swindon
Author: Colin Gordon MaggsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The GWR Bristol to Bath Line
Author: Colin MaggsPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445625822
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
A new edition of a classic history of the railway line between Bristol and Bath, illustrated with over 200 pictures.
Bristol Traction
Author: Hugh LlewelynPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445678063
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
This book is a collection of mainly colour, but with some black and white, photographs of modern and classic diesel traction around Bristol.
People and Rail Systems
Author: John R. WilsonPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1351912283
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Following on from 2005's Rail Human Factors: Supporting the Integrated Railway, this book brings together an even broader range of academics and practitioners from around the world to share their expertise and experience on rail human factors. The content is both comprehensive and cutting-edge, featuring more than 55 chapters addressing the following topics: ¢ Passengers and public ¢ Driver performance and workload ¢ Driving and cognition ¢ Train cab and interfaces: simulation and design ¢ Routes, signage, signals and drivability ¢ Signalling and control of the railway ¢ Planning for the railway ¢ Engineering work and maintenance ¢ Level crossings ¢ Accidents and safety ¢ Human error and human reliability ¢ SPADs: signals passed at danger ¢ Human factors integration and standards ¢ Impairments to performance ¢ Staff competencies and training. People and Rail Systems: Human Factors at the Heart of the Railway will be invaluable for all those concerned with making railways safer, more reliable, of higher quality and more efficient. It will be essential reading for policy-makers, researchers and industry around the world.
The Great Western Railway Volume One Paddington to Bristol
Author: Stanley C. JenkinsPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 144561832X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the Great Western Railway has changed and developed over the last century between Paddington and Swindon.
Railways in the Landscape
Author: Gordon BiddlePublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 147386237X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
The growth of railways was a major influence in transforming Britain's landscape. This book examines how they brought about physical changes to towns, the country and coast, and had a profound affect that is still visible today, especially on the shape and size of our towns and cities.In his book, Gordon Biddle begins by examining how railway routes transformed the rural scene and there effect on the economy, followed by an appraisal of there accompanying buildings such as stations, houses, signal boxes and yards following the changes in nineteenth-century architectural taste. He goes on to look at the impact of railways build along or near the coast, and their strong influence on the growth of seaside resorts and ports. He then turns to townscape, describing in turn the physical effect on London, other large cities, smaller towns and suburban growth.Also included are chapters on places the railways themselves created, from new towns to villages around a station or junction; the still-visible remains of abandoned railway, not only those that followed mass closures of the 1960s, but many long-standing that date back to the nineteenth century; twentieth- and twenty-first century developments that have continued to impact on the rural and urban scene; and a comparison of contemporary illustrations of an early main line in 1838 with its appearance today.
The World's First Railway System
Author: Mark CassonPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191570419
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The British railway network was a monument to Victorian private enterprise. Its masterpieces of civil engineering were emulated around the world. But its performance was controversial: praised for promoting a high density of lines, it was also criticised for wasteful duplication of routes. This is the first history of the British railway system written from a modern economic perspective. It uses conterfactual analysis to construct an alternaive network to represent the most efficient alternative rail network that could have been constructed given what was known at the time - the first time this has been done. It reveals how weaknesses in regulation and defects in government policy resulted in enormous inefficiency in the Victorian system that Britain lives with today. British railway companies developed into powerful regional monopolies, which then contested each other's territories. When denied access to existing lines in rival territories, they built duplicate lines instead. Plans for an integrated national system, sponsored by William Gladstone, were blocked by Members of Parliament because of a perceived conflict with the local interests they represented. Each town wanted more railways than its neighbours, and so too many lines were built. The costs of these surplus lines led ultimately to higher fares and freight charges, which impaired the performance of the economy. The book will be the definitive source of reference for those interested in the economic history of the British railway system. It makes use of a major new historical source, deposited railway plans, integrates transport and local history through its regional analysis of the railway system, and provides a comprehensive, classified bibliography.
A History of the Great Western Railway
Author: Colin MaggsPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 144561300X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
A narrative history of the most iconic railway company of the great age of steam.
Avonmouth Line
Author: P D RendallPublisher: The Crowood Press
ISBN: 1785004387
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
The Avonmouth Line - History and Working describes the railway built between the northern suburbs of Bristol and the docks constructed at the mouth of the River Avon, from its inception in 1865. It describes how a short passenger line was first constructed, running from a station in the Avon Gorge at Hotwells to the new Docks. The Midland Railway and then the Great Western Railway took advantage of the rising popularity of the Avonmouth docks, and additional routes were constructed at Kingswood Junction on the Bristol-Gloucester line, and from a junction with the Great Western at Pilning. Contents include the beginnings of the line as the 'Bristol Port Railway and Pier'; the docks lines at their height of use and during wartime; post 1950s run-downs and attempts to close the line; the line in 2018 and finally, duties and memories of the staff who worked the line. P D Rendall has had a life-long career in railway engineering and is now a published author and social historian.