[PDF] Routledge Revivals The Atlas Of British Railway History 1985 eBook

Author : Michael Freeman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 20,16 MB
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1351343025

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First published in 1985, this Atlas uses over 50 specially drawn maps to trace the rise and fall of the railways’ fortunes, and is supported by an interesting and authoritative text. Financial and operating statistics are clearly presented in diagrammatic form and provide a wealth of information rarely available to the student of railway history. Freeman and Aldcroft provide the basis for a new understanding of the way in which the railways transformed Britain by the scale of their engineering works, by shrinking national space and reorganising the layouts of urban areas. Maps show the evolution of early wagon routes into the first railway routes, the frenetic activity of the ‘Railway Mania’ years, and the consolidation of these lines into a national network. This exciting presentation of railway development will interest the enthusiast as well as the more general student of British transport history.

Author : Martin Gilbert
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 37,85 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415281478

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The changing story of the British Isles forms the central theme of this fascinating and compelling atlas, which covers England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales - and the expansion and gradual disintegration of Britain's overseas empire. This new edition includes: * politics: from the Saxon kingdoms and the collapse of Britain's French Empire to Jacobites, Parliamentary Reform, the Commonwealth and Europe * war and Conflict: from Viking attacks and the Norman Invasion to the Armada, World War and the revolt against empire * trade and Industry: from the post-Norman economy and Tudor trade to industrial unrest and the opening of international trade routes * religion: from the Saxon Church to the Reformation * society and Economics: from civilian life in Roman Britain to the Industrial and Agricultural revolutions, the Great Strike and the growth of universities

Author : J. N. Westwood
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,79 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781554075232

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A fascinating history of railroad development on every continent.

Author : Ian Allan (Firm)
Publisher : Ian Allan Publishing
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 31,53 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9780711024380

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Originally published in 1948 as a permanent record of the British railway system as it was at the end of private ownership, this book is a graphic reminder of the scale of the railway industry in the period before nationalisation.'

Author : Ian Allan
Publisher : Ian Allen Pub
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 47,48 MB
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780711036437

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Available for the first time in hardback, British Railways Atlas 1947: The Last Days of the Big Four helps to recall a long-lost era when railways were still the dominant form of transport for both passengers and freight all over the country. Originally published in 1948 as a permanent record of the British railway system as it was at the end of private ownership in December 1947, British Railways Atlas 1947 is a graphic reminder of the scale of the railway industry in the period before Nationalisation. Each of the lines of the Big Four railway companies is differentiated by a colour - Great Western (yellow), London, Midland & Scottish (red), London & North Eastern (blue) and Southern (green). Also shown are the myriad minor railways that had managed to maintain their independence after the Grouping of 1923 but which were to disappear along with their larger neighbours into the new British Railways: lines such as the Kent & East Sussex and the East Kent which had jealously guarded their independence were to be swallowed up. This reprint of the ever popular Rail Atlas comes back bigger and better than before, and of course in Hard back for the first time ever.

Author : Derek Hayes
Publisher : Times Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,24 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Locomotives
ISBN : 9780008249489

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Highly illustrated volume covering the emergence of the modern railway in a unique, essentially geographical way. Contemporary maps, many never before published, showing the locations and routes of the early railways.