[PDF] Railway Record eBook

Author : John Hurd II
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 32,56 MB
Release : 2012-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9004231153

GET BOOK

India has had operating railways for well-over 150 years: railways that have played a central and well-documented role in the making of India in the colonial and post-colonial eras. This handbook provides a reference guide for researchers interested in almost any facet of the history, colonial and post-colonial, of these railways. The secondary literature is identified and surveyed, primary sources and their locations identified, statistical and cartographic data discussed and presented, and a massive bibliography made available. This handbook is the indispensable tool for anyone seeking to understand India's railways and the roles they played in the making of modern India.

Author : Hubert Pragnell
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 2024-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1399049429

GET BOOK

To the early railway traveller, the prospect of travelling to places in hours rather than days hitherto was an inviting prospect, however a journey was not without its fears as well as excitement. To some, the prospect of travelling through a tunnel without carriage lighting, with smoke permeating the compartment and the confined noise was a horror of the new age. What might happen if we broke down or crashed into another train in the darkness? To others it was exciting, with the light from the footplate flickering against the tunnel walls or spotting the occasional glimpses of light from a ventilation shaft. To the directors of early railway companies, planning a route was governed by expense and the most direct way. Avoiding hills could add miles but tunnelling through them could involve vast expense as the Great Western Railway found at Box and the London and Birmingham at Kilsby. Creating a cutting as an alternative was also costly not only in labour and time, but also in compensation for landowners, who opposed railways on visual and social grounds having seen their land divided by canals. Construction involved millions of bricks or blocks of stone for sufficiently thick walls to withstand collapse. However, the entrance barely seen from the carriage window might be an impressive Italianate arch as at Primrose Hill, or a castellated portal worthy of the Middle Ages as at Bramhope. This book sets out to tell the story of tunnelling in Britain up to about 1870, when it was a question of burrowing through earth and rock with spade and explosive powder, with the constant danger of collapse or flooding leading to injury and death. It uses contemporary accounts, from the dangers of railway travel by Dickens to the excitement of being drawn through the Liverpool Wapping Tunnel by the young composer Mendelssoln. It includes descriptions from early railway company guide books, newspapers and diaries. It also includes numerous photographs and colored architectural elevations from railway archives.

Author : Charles H. Grinling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 20,5 MB
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 0429862288

GET BOOK

Published in 1903, this book provides a complete account of the origin and development of the Great Northern Railway Company from its inception to the year 1802, a period of around 60 years.

Author : American Railway Engineering Association
Publisher :
Page : 1476 pages
File Size : 43,84 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Railroad engineering
ISBN :

GET BOOK

List of members in v. 1-10.

Author :
Publisher :
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 46,32 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Special libraries
ISBN :

GET BOOK

Most vols. include Proceedings of the Special Libraries Association.