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Author : Leslie Oppitz
Publisher : Countryside
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 1853065951
Most of East Anglia's railways were built in the second half of the 19th century. Some were closed in the 1930's: many more under Beeching in the 1960's. This illustrated book covers their rise, their heyday and their fall.
Author : Oliver Densham
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-23
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780719840340
The railways of East Anglia have a long and complex history, and this book provides a broad overview of the subject. Beginning with the earliest horse tramroads of Essex and continuing up to the privatized railway of the present day, it includes the tribulations of the early pioneer companies and the ongoing narrative of consolidation and rationalization to which the railways were subjected. Some of the more curious byways of the region's railway history are also covered. With over 140 illustrations, including archive photographs and original drawings by the author, this book includes: the Norfolk and Suffolk Rail-Road Company's fraudulent promotion of 1824; how the East Anglian railway network developed amongst bitter rivalries and uneasy truces, including the florid figure of George Hudson and the surprising history of two separate monorails in Essex. Potted narratives of some of the smaller branch lines and independent concerns are given along with information on the East Anglian railway companies and their roles in both World Wars. Finally, the sometimes-painful processes of nationalization is covered and their effect on the network as we know it today.
Author : Neil Burgess
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1840337559
Author : Rob Shorland-Ball
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-19
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781526744821
A look at the minor railways in eastern England that were once busy transport links and made vital contributions to the social and business heritage. Rob Shorland-Ball is a former teacher and a born storyteller and so is well aware of the strong local loyalties in East Anglia. Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex are considered to be very different separate and independent areas by their inhabitants. When the author worked in Suffolk he explained that he came from Cambridge which he believed was the front door of East Anglia. An elderly Suffolk man to whom he was speaking paused for a while and then said, with unarguable finality, “Here in Suffolk if Cambridge exists at all, it is a back door and rarely used.” By the 1950s and 60s, when the author explored the minor railways illustrated in this book, they were rarely used, so needed to be recorded and their stories told before they were forgotten entirely. To bring this book up to date, the final section is called Destiny because some of the track beds have survived and flourished with new usage as restored heritage railways, footpaths and cycleways and one route as a busy busway. “A nostalgic look back at long forgotten minor railways in East Anglia . . . Highly recommended.” —Branch Line & Light Railway Publications Flyer “A brief history of each of the lines together with maps and period photographs that make this an interesting read for those unfamiliar with the minor railways of East Anglia.” —Great Eastern Railway Society Newsletter
Author : Douglas Bourn
Publisher : Bridge Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1869831330
Railway histories are always popular and the continued regard for heritage railways around the UK highlights the nostalgia the industry evokes. Inevitably many concentrate on the locomotives, lost stations and lines that crisscrossed the region. What has often been missing have been the stories of the individual railway workers and the conditions under which they worked, despite some valuable autobiographies and memoirs of railwaymen who worked in the area. This volume aims to address this gap, bringing to life stories of railway workers within a context of the changing nature of the industry from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.Heavily influenced by his personal and family memories, Douglas Bourn draws on available memoirs, alongside other evidence from railway magazines and local and regional newspapers, to provide the reader with an introduction to the fascinating story of railways in the region. The book takes readers on a historical journey starting with the creation of the first railways in East Anglia, via the growth of a network that promoted and served the agricultural, industrial and tourist development of the towns throughout the three eastern counties, and ending with their almost inevitable decline, as transport needs changed in the post Second World War period.
Author : John Minnis
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781781317730
The beautifully restored St Pancras Station is a magisterial example of Britain’s finest Victorian architecture. Like the viaducts at Belah and Crumlin, cathedral-like stations such as Nottingham Victoria and spectacular railway hotels like Glasgow St Enoch's, it stands proud as testament to Britain's architectural heritage. In this stunning book, John Minnis reveals Britain's finest railway architecture. From the most cavernous engine sheds, like Old Oak Common, through the eccentric country halts on the Tollesbury line and the gantries of the Liverpool Overhead Railway, to the soaring viaducts of Belah and Cumlin, Britain’s Lost Railways offers a sweeping celebration of our railway heritage. The selection of images and the removable facsimile memorabilia, including tickets, posters, timetables and maps, allows the reader to step into that past, serving as a testimony to an age of ingenuity and ambition when the pride we invested in our railways was reflected in the grandeur of the architecture we built for them.
Author : R. S. Joby
Publisher : David & Charles Publishers
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 0715373129
Author : Brian Reading,Ian Reading
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781445699677
Stunning previously unpublished photographs documenting the end of steam railways in the East Anglia area.
Author : Gordon Suggitt
Publisher : Countryside Books (GB)
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-01
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 1853068012
Traces the history of the county's railway lines from their opening in the 19th century, their heyday around the turn of the century and, in many cases, their closure in the 20th century.
Author : Anthony Lambert
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781781318539
From the great cathedral-like railways stations of the steam age to obscure lines built through spectacular landscapes to open up countries before the advent of motorised road transport, this book is a celebration of our lost railway heritage and the lines that can no longer be travelled. Through stunning images, Lost Railway Journeys from Around the World evokes the romance and drama of these journeys, taking the reader as close as they can possibly get to this lost world of dining cars, sleeping cars, station porters and international rail travel. Organised by continent, all of these routes have stories to tell and the lost journeys are captured in the old postcards and posters that accompany photographs drawn from collections and archives across the world.
Author : Brian Reading,Ian Reading
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 1445699664
Stunning previously unpublished photographs documenting the end of steam railways in the East Anglia area.
Author : Joby R. S.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1985-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0946537259
Author : Geoffrey Kingscott
Publisher : Countryside Books (GB)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 1846740428
Traces the history of the railway lines in the county including branches of the Great Central Railway and Ashover Light Railway, from their opening in the mid 19th century and, in many cases, their closure in the 20th century. This book describes the reasons for their construction and for their subsequent closure. It also includes illustrations.
Author : Charles Phillips
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781399024730
This book is the first of two which covers the history of the Great Eastern Railway and its predecessors from the first proposal for a railway in the eastern counties in 1811 for a railway from Islington to Wallasea Island and Mucking to its absorption into the London and North Eastern Railway under the 1923 Grouping of Railways. This volume covers the period from 1811 up to the formation of the Great Eastern Railway in 1862. The history is the first history of the GER since Cecil J. Allens history of the railway which was first published in 1955 and which has long been out of print. The book makes use of both previously published works on the GER and its predecessors, but also contemporary documents such as the Directors reports to shareholders of the Eastern Counties Railway, timetables, reports in local and national newspapers as well as extracts from selected peoples' diaries. Some of which were not easily available to Allen when he wrote his history of the GER. Incorporating these other sources means the book sheds new light on the Railways history. The book is intended for anyone who is either interested in railways and particularly the Great Eastern Railway and the railways of the east of England, but also for anyone who is interested in general in the history of that part of England.
Author : William R. Jones
Publisher : Sutton Publishing Limited
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : CHI:76033006
This dictionary covers the period of the Industrial Revolution, the years between 1750 and 1850, when the major developments and technical advances occurred that are the concern of industrial archaeologists. This is the only book of its kind and designed for students, professionals and academics, railway and canal enthusiasts, and anyone interested in Britain's industrial history.