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Author : Oliver Green
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780711266612
A lavish photographic history of all the key railway stations of London for transport buffs and anyone interested in the rich history of London.
Author : Chris Heather
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780719827655
Built as part of the massive expansion of Great Britain's railway network during the nineteenth century, London's thirteen mainline railway stations are proud symbols of the nation's industrial and architectural heritage. Produced in association with The National Archives, and profusely illustrated with period photographs and diagrams, London Railway Stations tells the story of these iconic stations and of the people who created them and used them. Though built in an age of steam, smoke, gas lamps and horses, most retain features of their original design. This book will bring new light to these old buildings, and help you to see London's mainline stations through new eyes. Lavishly illustrated with black & white and some colour photographs.
Author : Oliver Green
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781784425043
An illustrated historical tour of London's 13 great railway termini, on a clockwise circuit from Paddington to Victoria. This beautifully illustrated book is a short history and guide to London's principal mainline railway stations, from the first to be opened (London Bridge, 1836) to the last of the Victorian termini (Marylebone, 1899). It follows the roller coaster fortunes of the stations in the twentieth century, which included the demolition of Euston and its great arch in the 1960s, the skilful renovation and reconstruction of Liverpool Street in the late 1980s, and the survival and restoration of St Pancras and its famous neo-gothic hotel. It also covers the recent and upcoming developments of the twenty-first century, including rebuilding work (London Bridge, completed in 2018), renovation/restoration projects (St Pancras, 2007) new works commencing for the HS2 terminal at Euston, and a major new interchange at Old Oak Common in west London due to open in 2022.
Author : Simon Jenkins
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780241978993
The perfect new gift from the bestselling author of Britain's 1000 Best Churches It is the scene for our hopeful beginnings and our intended ends, and the timeless experiences of coming and going, meeting, greeting and parting. It is an institution with its own rituals and priests, and a long-neglected aspect of Britain's architecture. And yet so little do we look at the railway station. Simon Jenkins has travelled the length and breadth of Great Britain, from Waterloo to Wemyss Bay, Betws-y-Coed to Beverley, to select his hundred best. Blending his usual insight and authority with his personal reflections and experiences - including his founding the Railway Heritage Trust - the foremost expert on our national heritage deftly reveals the history, geography, design and significance of each of these glories. Beautifully illustrated with colour photographs throughout, this joyous exploration of our social history shows the station's role in the national imagination; champions the engineers, architects and rival companies that made them possible; and tells the story behind the triumphs and follies of these very British creations. These are the marvellous, often undersung places that link our nation, celebrated like never before.
Author : Ben Pedroche
Publisher : Capital Transport
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Subway stations
ISBN : 1854143522
Abandoned tunnels, derelict stations, old trackbeds and much more. All are included in this entertaining and informative book that guides the reader through London's many remaining disused railway structures.
Author : Christian Wolmar
Publisher : Atlantic Books (UK)
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1786499223
London hosts a dozen major railway stations, more than any comparable city. King's Cross, St Pancras, Euston, Marylebone, Paddington, Victoria, Charing Cross, Cannon Street, Waterloo, London Bridge, Liverpool Street and Fenchurch Street--these great termini are the hub of London's transport system and their complex history, of growth, decline and epic renewal has determined much of the city's character today. Christian Wolmar tells the dramatic and compelling story of how these great cathedrals of steam were built by competing private railway companies between 1836 and 1900, reveals their immediate impact on the capital and explores the evolution of the stations and the city up to the present day.
Author : John Christopher
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781445651118
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the capital’s major railway stations have changed and developed over the years.
Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780547525150
The acclaimed author recounts his epic journey across Europe and Asia in this international bestselling classic of travel literature: “Compulsive reading” (Graham Greene). In 1973, Paul Theroux embarked on a four-month journey by train from the United Kingdom through Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. In The Great Railway Bazaar, he records in vivid detail and penetrating insight the many fascinating incidents, adventures, and encounters of his grand, intercontinental tour. Asia's fabled trains—the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Mandalay Express, the Trans-Siberian Express—are the stars of a journey that takes Theroux on a loop eastbound from London's Victoria Station to Tokyo Central, then back from Japan on the Trans-Siberian. Brimming with Theroux's signature humor and wry observations, this engrossing chronicle is essential reading for both the ardent adventurer and the armchair traveler.
Author : John Betjeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Railroad stations
ISBN : 1854142542
Author : Oliver Green
Publisher : Shire Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0747808066
London is the supreme railway city. In 1900 it had fourteen railway termini, more than any other city in the world. A century later only one of them has disappeared completely, and just three have undergone comprehensive reconstruction. All the others are recognisable products of the Victorian railway age that continue to function daily as busy stations for the travellers of the twenty-first century. This book provides the railway enthusiast with a brief history of the principal termini, featuring key aspects of architectural design and engineering but also highlighting anecdotes, myths, personal stories and curiosities about the stations' social and cultural history.
Author : John Betjeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1069639830
Author : David Bownes,Chris Nix,Siddy Holloway,Sam Mullins
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300245790
Travel under the streets of London with this lavishly illustrated exploration of abandoned, modified, and reused Underground tunnels, stations, and architecture.
Author : Oliver Green
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780711289055
Published in conjunction with TFL, this is a comprehensive guide to the London Underground, combining a historical overview, illustrations and newly commissioned photography.
Author : Christian Wolmar
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781848872530
Since the Victorian era, London's Underground has had played a vital role in the daily life of generations of Londoners. Christian Wolmar celebrates the vision and determination of the 19th-century pioneers who made the world's first, and still the largest, underground passenger railway: one of the most impressive engineering achievements in history. From the early days of steam to electrification, via the Underground's contribution to 20th-century industrial design and its role during two world wars, the story comes right up to the present with its sleek, driverless trains, and the wrangles over the future of the system. This book reveals London's hidden wonder in all its glory, and shows how the railway beneath the streets helped create the city we know today.
Author : Allen Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1445670119
Perhaps more has been written about the Great Western Railway than any other, and the company is regarded with the most affection. The combination of an unbroken history, engineering icons of the Victorian era, holiday destinations and a visual appeal in their design work went a long way in keeping the GWR in pole position. The stations and other structures have long enjoyed the admiration of many and are a quintessential ingredient of the GWR recipe for remembrance. Change has always been with us on the railways and none more so than in the twenty-first century, where much of the GWR scene is to be swept away under the wires of electrification. The GWR proposed electrification of the Taunton to Penzance route in the 1930s and would have carried it out if they'd had the cash so, eighty years later, this change has an air of inevitability about it. Great Western Railway Stations is a last look at much of the GWR architecture, some of which is listed, and aims to present a lavishly illustrated overview of what remains of the old company.
