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London's Necropolis

Author : John M. Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1840337338

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The Baghdad Railway Club

Author : Andrew Martin
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571282029

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Baghdad 1917. Captain Jim Stringer, invalided from the Western Front, has been dispatched to investigate what looks like a nasty case of treason. He arrives to find a city on the point of insurrection, his cover apparently blown - and his only contact lying dead with flies in his eyes. As Baghdad swelters in a particularly torrid summer, the heat alone threatens the lives of the British soldiers who occupy the city. The recently ejected Turks are still a danger - and many of the local Arabs are none too friendly either. For Jim, who is not particularly good in warm weather, the situation grows pricklier by the day. Aside from his investigation, he is working on the railways around the city. His boss is the charming, enigmatic Lieutenant-Colonel Shepherd, who presides over the gracious dining society called The Baghdad Railway Club - and who may or may not be a Turkish agent. Jim's search for the truth brings him up against murderous violence in a heat-dazed, labyrinthine city where an enemy awaits around every corner.

The Brookwood Necropolis Railway

Author : John M. Clarke
Publisher : Locomotion Papers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Dead
ISBN : 0853616558

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Do Not Alight Here

Author : Ben Pedroche
Publisher : Capital Transport
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Subway stations
ISBN : 1854143522

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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.

The Necropolis Railway

Author : Andrew Martin
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571252220

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' A brilliant murder mystery set in Edwardian London about a railway line that runs only to a massive cemetery.' Daily Mirror When railwayman Jim Stringer moves to the garish and tawdry London of 1903, he finds his duties are confined to a mysterious graveyard line. The men he works alongside have formed an instant loathing for him - and his predecessor has disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Can Jim work out what is going on before he too is travelling on a one-way coffin ticket aboard the Necropolis Railway? 'Guaranteed to make the flesh creep and the skin crawl, a masterful novel about a mad, clanking, fog-bound world.' Simon Winchester 'A murderous conspiracy of a plot graced with style, wit and the sharp, true taste of a time gone by ... So beautifully nuanced and so effortlessly pleasurable to read that you almost want to keep it a personal secret.' Independent on Sunday

The Necropolis Railway

Author : Andrew Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Large type books
ISBN : 178541111X

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Bright and ambitious, young Jim Stringer moves from the English countryside to London, eager to begin work as a railwayman at Waterloo Station. It is 1903, the dawn of the Edwardian age, when steam runs the nation and the railways drive progress. Jim finds, however, that his duties involve a graveyard shift, literally - a railway line that takes coffins from London morgues to the gigantic new cemeteries being dug in the city's outskirts. He also learns that the men he works alongside have formed an instant loathing of him - and his predecessor has disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Can Jim work out what's going on before he's issued a one-way ticket aboard the Necropolis Railway?

The Brookwood Necropolis Railway

Author : John M. Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Brookwood Cemetery (Brookwood, England)
ISBN : 085361296X

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Steam Trains Today

Author : Andrew Martin
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781782834892

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'A delightful book ... the perfect companion as you wait for the 8.10 from Hove' Observer After the Beeching cuts of the 1960s, many railways were gradually shut down. Rural communities were isolated and steam trains slowly gave way to diesel and electric traction. But some people were not prepared to let the romance of train travel die. Thanks to their efforts, many lines passed into community ownership and are now booming with new armies of dedicated volunteers. Andrew Martin meets these volunteer enthusiasts, finding out just what it is about preserved railways that makes people so devoted. From the inspiration for Thomas the Tank Engine to John Betjeman's battle against encroaching modernity, Steam Trains Today will take you on a heart-warming journey across Britain from Aviemore to Epping.

Drake's Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway from Birmingham to Liverpool and Manchester

Author : active 1825 James Drake
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:4057664561275

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'Drake's Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway' is a must-have for anyone interested in learning about the history behind travels on the train line between Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool. It includes information on fares, regulations, stations, and accommodations, as well as a comprehensive directory of each city's proprietor and buildings, which may still exist to this very day.

Night Trains

Author : Andrew Martin
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781782832126

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Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their private sleeping compartments, gilded dining cars, champagne bars and wealthy travellers. Authors from Agatha Christie to Graham Greene have used night trains to tell tales of romance, intrigue and decadence against a rolling background of dramatic landscapes. The reality could often be as thrilling: early British travellers on the Orient Express were advised to carry a revolver (as well as a teapot). In Night Trains, Andrew Martin attempts to relive the golden age of the great European sleeper trains by using their modern-day equivalents. This is no simple matter. The night trains have fallen on hard times, and the services are disappearing one by one. But if the Orient Express experience can only be recreated by taking three separate sleepers, the intriguing characters and exotic atmospheres have survived. Whether the backdrop is 3am at a Turkish customs post, the sun rising over the Riviera, or the constant twilight of a Norwegian summer night, Martin rediscovers the pleasures of a continent connected by rail. By tracing the history of the sleeper trains, he reveals much of the recent history of Europe itself. The original sleepers helped break down national barriers and unify the continent. Martin uncovers modern instances of European unity - and otherwise - as he traverses the continent during 'interesting times', with Brexit looming. Against this tumultuous backdrop, he experiences his own smaller dramas, as he fails to find crucial connecting stations, ponders the mystery of the compartment dog, and becomes embroiled in his very own night train whodunit.

London My London

Author : Victor Keegan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0954076257

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Victor Keegan was born in the outer reaches of suburbia in Raynes Park and now lives in the centre of London in Victoria. Described in the Observer as a "cult poet" he often walks the streets and alleys seeking ideas. London My London, his 5th book, covers life from birth amidst the bombs of the Second World War to his belated discovery of London's hidden history. He once walked from Trafalgar Square to Islington without crossing a road and also recorded in a poem in this book - from Trafalgar Square to Margate also without setting foot on a road. Victor spent most of his working life as a journalist on the Guardian and now writes the LondonMyLondon.co.uk blog plus Twitter feeds @LonStreetWalker, @ShakespearesLon and @vickeegan. He has published iPhone apps Gems of London, Shakespeare's London and City Poems. His other interests include English and Welsh wines on which he blogs at victorkeegan.com. He is married with two children.

Fallen Grace

Author : Mary Hooper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781599906058

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Poor, orphaned Grace Parkes is in a horrible situation. Her illegitimate child has just died in childbirth, so she's traveled to the Brookwood Cemetery to place the small infant's body in a rich lady's coffin. Following the advice of a kindly midwife, this is the only way that Grace can do right by the little baby, and to avoid the disgrace of a pauper's grave. Grace meets two people at the cemetery who will have a most unusual affect on her life, though she doesn't know that yet. For now, Grace has to suppress her grief and get on with her meager life, scraping together enough pennies selling watercress for rent and food, and looking after her older sister, who is incapable of caring for herself. But a great fraud has been perpetrated on young Grace - and she is secretly the recipient of a most unusual legacy -- if only she is able to claim it. Of course, the rich only get richer in this gothic tale of class distinctions, mysterious secrets, and malicious fraud.

The Revenant of Thraxton Hall

Author : Vaughn Entwistle
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250035011

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Arthur Conan Doyle has just killed off Sherlock Holmes in "The Final Problem," and he immediately becomes one of the most hated men in London. So when he is contacted by a medium "of some renown" and asked to investigate a murder, he jumps at the chance to get out of the city. The only thing is that the murder hasn't happened yet—the medium, one Hope Thraxton, has foreseen that her death will occur at the third séance of a meeting of the Society for Psychical Research at her manor house in the English countryside. Along for the ride is Conan Doyle's good friend Oscar Wilde, and together they work to narrow down the list of suspects, which includes a mysterious foreign Count, a levitating magician, and an irritable old woman with a "familiar." Meanwhile, Conan Doyle is enchanted by the plight of the capricious Hope Thraxton, who may or may not have a more complicated back-story than it first appears. As Conan Doyle and Wilde participate in séances and consider the possible motives of the assembled group, the clock ticks ever closer to Hope's murder, in The Revenant of Thraxton Hall by Vaughn Entwistle.

The Dead Assassin

Author : Vaughn Entwistle
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250035073

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1895. Victorian England trembles on the verge of hysteria in Vaughn Entwistle's The Dead Assassin. Terrorist bombs are detonating around the Capitol and every foreigner is suspected of being an Anarchist lurking beneath a cape. Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle is summoned to the scene of a gruesome crime that has baffled and outraged Scotland Yard's best. A senior member of Her Majesty's government has been brutally murdered, and the body of his attacker lies close by—riddled with bullets. More perplexing, one of the attending detectives recognizes the dead assassin as Charlie Higginbotham, a local Cockney pickpocket and petty thief. Higginbotham is not just an improbable suspect, but an impossible suspect, for the young detective watched him take the drop two weeks previously, hanged at Newgate Prison. Conan Doyle calls in his friend Oscar Wilde for assistance and soon the two authors find themselves swept up in an investigation so bizarre it defies conventional wisdom and puts the lives of their loved ones, the Nation, and even the Monarch herself in dire peril. The murders continue, committed by a shadowy cadre of seemingly unstoppable assassins. As the sinister plot unravels, an implausible theory becomes the only possible solution: someone is reanimating the corpses of executed criminals and sending them shambling through the London fog... and programmed for murder.

Necropolis

Author : Basil Copper
Publisher : 20th Century
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1939140501

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"A feverish gaslight gothic that's as rich in Sherlock Holmes-like atmosphere as it is in ghoulish doings." - Kirkus Reviews "A dark, exotic Gothic thriller . . . Excellent!" - Booklist "A gothic mystery in the truest sense. . . . Copper has written in the grand tradition of A. Conan Doyle and created a spellbinding narrative of mystery and suspense." - The Press-Courier Set in an alternate Victorian London, where Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are not just fictional characters, Basil Copper's Necropolis (1980) is a tale of mystery and intrigue worthy of Arthur Conan Doyle or Wilkie Collins. Private detective Clyde Beatty, a rival of the great Holmes, has been hired by the lovely Angela Meredith to inquire into her father's suspicious death. As Beatty's investigation unfolds, the danger intensifies: more murders ensue, and attempts are made on his life. It is clear there is more to Mr. Meredith's death than meets the eye, and it may have something to do with the brazen robbery of a fortune in gold bullion. The clues lead Beatty to the eerie Brookwood Cemetery, where fatal secrets lie hidden in the catacombs beneath a city of the dead. . . . This edition of Copper's chilling Victorian Gothic mystery is the first in more than three decades and includes the original illustrations by Stephen E. Fabian and a new introduction by Stephen Jones. Copper's tale of Lovecraftian horror, The Great White Space (1974) is also available from Valancourt Books.