An Illustrated History Geoff Swaine. BRITISH RAILWAYS LONDON ( Marylebone ) SOUTH YORKSHIRE AND WEEKDAYS June 5th to September 23rd inclusive THE MASTER CUTLER 6 15 8 # 31 Sheffield ( Victoria ) 1 40 London ( Marylebone ) dep Nottingham ...
Author: Geoff Swaine
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 9781526761897
Category: Transportation
Page: 208
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This book covers in pictures, the history and development of London's main terminal stations, looking at the stations through the lens of photographers from Victorian and Edwardian times through to the modern era. The main terminal stations in London have changed greatly in the last 150 years, this volume seeks through pictures to capture the spirit of those changes, showing the often interesting and colorful history of these great and often beautiful structures, that are an important part of our railway heritage.
This book covers in pictures, the history and development of London's main terminal stations, looking at the stations through the lens of photographers from Victorian and Edwardian times through to the modern era.
Author: Geoff Swaine
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 9781526761910
Category: Transportation
Page: 208
View: 813
This book covers in pictures, the history and development of London's main terminal stations, looking at the stations through the lens of photographers from Victorian and Edwardian times through to the modern era. The main terminal stations in London have changed greatly in the last 150 years, this volume seeks through pictures to capture the spirit of those changes, showing the often interesting and colorful history of these great and often beautiful structures, that are an important part of our railway heritage.
24 On early accounts of railway travel see Brightfield, “The Coming of the Railroad to Early Victorian England,” 45–72. ... 33 “New Grand Central Railway Station at Birmingham,” Illustrated London News, 3 June 1854: 506.
Author: Paul Dobraszczyk
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781351562089
Category: Art
Page: 342
View: 813
Vilified by leading architectural modernists and Victorian critics alike, mass-produced architectural ornament in iron has received little sustained study since the 1960s; yet it proliferated in Britain in the half century after the building of the Crystal Palace in 1851 - a time when some architects, engineers, manufacturers, and theorists believed that the fusion of iron and ornament would reconcile art and technology and create a new, modern architectural language. Comprehensively illustrated and richly researched, Iron, Ornament and Architecture in Victorian Britain presents the most sustained study to date of the development of mechanised architectural ornament in iron in nineteenth-century architecture, its reception and theorisation by architects, critics and engineers, and the contexts in which it flourished, including industrial buildings, retail and seaside architecture, railway stations, buildings for export and exhibition, and street furniture. Appealing to architects, conservationists, historians and students of nineteenth-century visual culture and the built environment, this book offers new ways of understanding the notion of modernity in Victorian architecture by questioning and re-evaluating both Victorian and modernist understandings of the ideological split between historicism and functionalism, and ornament and structure.
All Stations: A Journey Through 150 Years of Railway History. Paris: Science Museum (London), 1978. Encyclopedia of American Business ... Down at the Depot: American Railroad Stations from 1831 to 1920. New York: Bramhall House, 1952.
Author: Brian Solomon
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN: 9780760348901
Category: Architecture
Page: 176
View: 488
From the railway's beginnings, the station building, itself, had civic importance greater than ordinary structures. Let historian Brian Solomon show you how beautifully it filled that role. Railway Depots, Stations & Terminals is a unique book about some of the finest, most interesting, and most famous railway stations. Contemporary photographs, historic images, and postcard views provide an in-depth look at the architectural gems that dot the railroad landscape. The railway station has a special role in people's lives. Stations have served as the gateway to the world's great cities and the point of contact for remote towns. The inherent nature of the station is different from that of other buildings; it is an entrance, an exit, a place to rest, and a stop along the way. It can be the first thing a traveler sees and the last memory of a favorite city. Facing both the street and the tracks, the station is naturally a point of departure and a face of the city it serves. Brian Solomon, one of today's most accomplished railway historians, leads you through a one-of-a-kind exploration of the history and architecture of depots, stations, and terminals.
This book takes an in-depth look at the terminal's past, covering all decades from the 1840s to the present day.
Author: Robert Lordan
Publisher: The Crowood Press
ISBN: 9781785008696
Category: Transportation
Page: 160
View: 139
London's Waterloo Station is Britain's biggest and busiest railway terminal and, at over 170 years old, has a rich and fascinating history to discover. This book takes an in-depth look at the terminal's past, covering all decades from the 1840s to the present day. With over 160 archive and contemporary photographs, it includes: Waterloo's precursor, Nine Elms; the expansion and chaos that occurred in the late nineteenth century; how Waterloo fared during the two World Wars and the Necropolis Railway which, for almost ninety years, conveyed coffins to Brookwood Cemetery. The curious satellite station, Waterloo East, is covered along with the Waterloo and City line link to the capital's financial heart. There is the story behind London's first Eurostar terminal and the station's impact on popular culture, including literature, film, television, art and music. Finally, there is a revealing insight into what lies beneath the station, in the vast, cavernous area that the public never get to see.....
About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work.
Author: Samuel Rea
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 133206583X
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 64
View: 525
Excerpt from The Railways Terminating in London: With a Description of the Terminal Stations, and the Underground Railways In the spring of 1887 the author had occasion to visit England, and being impressed with the great development of the railway system in the city of London, especially the terminal facilities and arrangements, he studied them on the ground, and he also examined into the financial condition of the representative railways of England; and the following pages are the result of his studies and observations. The purpose of this review is to present a short account of the railways having their termini in London; an authentic statement of their mileage; their financial condition at the present time, with some reference to their history; the amount of their revenue as derived from passenger and freight traffic and from miscellaneous sources; the number of passengers conveyed annually by them; and the proportion per cent, of working expenditure to gross receipts. Also a description of the metropolitan terminal stations of these various railways, and a narrative, with a brief history, of the Metropolitan Railways, which are better known as the Underground Railways. To make the subject clearly and easily understood, the very best maps obtainable for the purpose have been secured and made part of the review. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The London and Birmingham Railway opened at Euston station in 1837 , and the London and South Western extended inwards from Nine Elms to Waterloo in 1848. The Blackwall Railway was opened from Blackwall to the Minories in 1840 ...
Author: Roy Porter
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674538390
Category: History
Page: 431
View: 330
This is the first modern one-volume history of London from Roman times to the present. Roy Porter touches the pulse of his hometown and makes it our own, capturing London's fortunes, people, and imperial glory with brio and wit.
The book concludes with a detailed account of the project to rebuild the Bishops Road Bridge project and the authors discovery and salvage of Brunels iron canal bridge: a rare instance when writing the history of a historic place directly ...
Author: Steven Brindle
Publisher: Historic England Press
ISBN: STANFORD:36105113950021
Category: Architecture
Page: 174
View: 391
Paddington Station in London is one of Britains most splendid and historically significant railway termini, as the home and headquarters of the Great Western Railway, and as one of the masterpieces of its chief engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel (180659). Steven Brindles comprehensive history, the first full-length study of the station to be published, first appeared in 2004. Around the same time, in the course of research for the book, the author discovered Brunels earliest surviving cast-iron bridge, which spanned the Regents Canal just outside the station but had hitherto been unrecognised, just in time to prevent its destruction for a major new road bridge and negotiate its salvage by dismantling. The second edition of the book, richly illustrated from a wealth of historic sources and now published in a larger format, has been updated to take account of a series of momentous recent developments at Paddington: the reprieve and restoration of the stations Edwardian fourth span; the project to create a new entrance on its north side; and the impending redevelopment of its south side to serve as one of the principal stations on the new Crossrail route across London. The book concludes with a detailed account of the project to rebuild the Bishops Road Bridge project and the authors discovery and salvage of Brunels iron canal bridge: a rare instance when writing the history of a historic place directly influenced its future, and led to the saving of a unique part of the past.
A Record of Municipal and Social Progress, from 1760 to the Present Day Charles Welch ... 147 ; transferred to New River Company , 154 ; Act for removing , 154 London Bridge Railway Station , constructed , 189 London Brokers ' Relief ...
(Theophile Gautier, in Jean Dethier, All Stations, London, 19811) Railway heritage The railway architecture surviving from the nineteenth century in England and abroad stands as testimony to an age which believed in slow, ...
Author: John Ashurst
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781136415098
Category: Antiques & Collectibles
Page: 352
View: 979
Despite growing international awareness of the presence and significance of ruined buildings and archaeological sites, and the increasingly sophisticated technology available for the collection of data about them, these sites continue to be at risk across the globe. Conservation of Ruins defines and describes these risks, which range from neglect, to destructive archaeology, and even well-meaning intervention in the name of tourism. The book provides detailed, practical instruction on the conservation and stabilisation of ruins by structural and non-structural means, as well as describing the procedures and conditions that need to be in place to ensure the protection of our important historic sites. In considering aspects of architectural conservation, archaeology and ecology together for the first time, this book provides an integrated, holistic view of this international topic that will be essential reading for those working in this field
British Sculpture in India: New Views and Old Memories. London: Frontier Publishing. ... London: BACSA. Wiltshire, Trea. 2012. A Stroll through Colonial Hong Kong. Hong Kong: FormAsia. ... It is still in use as a railway station today.
Author: Mark Doyle
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN: 9781440841989
Category: History
Page: 706
View: 822
An essential starting point for anyone wanting to learn about life in the largest empire in history, this two-volume work encapsulates the imperial experience from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries. • Provides primary sources that give voice to the people who ran, opposed, and were subjects of the British Empire • Consolidates the most up-to-date research from established and emerging scholars in the field in many countries and at many institutions • Includes a detailed introduction that succinctly puts the British Empire into historical context • Offers a chronology of events and episodes important to both the rise and fall of the British Empire • Provides a broad range of perspectives that focus not only on the white men who controlled the British Empire but also on the many people—such as women, indigenous peoples, poor Europeans, and Christian missionaries—who formed it • Avoids simplistic assessments of British imperialism as merely "good" or "bad," emanating an objectivity that enables readers to develop their own ideas about the nature of the empire
( Late of the Eastern Counties Railway , and Terminal Stations , an APPOINTMENT , either as CONTRACTOR ONDON ... CHARING - CROSS , LONDON Apply to J. M. RENDEL , Esq . , 8 , Great George - street , JOHN F. KENNELL , Secretary .
New Cross is the point at which the East London connects with the railways from London Bridge to Brighton and ... to run the East Landon trains beyond the station at Old Kent Rosd , and towards the close of the hearing of this case they ...
Still serving VIA's Montreal to Ottawa trains, the interior offers a number of historic photos including those of Charles M. ... Its plain single-storey style is more similar to the simple pattern book-station plans used by the CNR.
Author: Ron Brown
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 9781459707542
Category: Transportation
Page: 216
View: 577
For the first time, train buffs and history lovers will have a book that explores the heritage of Ontario’s railways, from its oldest stations to its highest bridges, glamorous hotels (and some not-so-glamorous ones), scenic and historic train rides, rail trails, and sagging old ghost towns.
Examples of these uses include but are not limthese uses include but are not limited to museums, shopping malls, ... Originally opened in 1894 as the largest single-level passenger rail terminal in the world, the station closed in 1978, ...
Author: Mark Garrett
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 9781483346519
Category: Social Science
Page: 2048
View: 217
Viewing transportation through the lens of current social, economic, and policy aspects, this four-volume reference work explores the topic of transportation across multiple disciplines within the social sciences and related areas, including geography, public policy, business, and economics. The book’s articles, all written by experts in the field, seek to answer such questions as: What has been the legacy, not just economically but politically and socially as well, of President Eisenhower’s modern interstate highway system in America? With that system and the infrastructure that supports it now in a state of decline and decay, what’s the best path for the future at a time of enormous fiscal constraints? Should California politicians plunge ahead with plans for a high-speed rail that every expert says—despite the allure—will go largely unused and will never pay back the massive investment while at this very moment potholes go unfilled all across the state? What path is best for emerging countries to keep pace with dramatic economic growth for their part? What are the social and financial costs of gridlock in our cities? Features: Approximately 675 signed articles authored by prominent scholars are arranged in A-to-Z fashion and conclude with Further Readings and cross references. A Chronology helps readers put individual events into historical context; a Reader’s Guide organizes entries by broad topical or thematic areas; a detailed index helps users quickly locate entries of most immediate interest; and a Resource Guide provides a list of journals, books, and associations and their websites. While articles were written to avoid jargon as much as possible, a Glossary provides quick definitions of technical terms. To ensure full, well-rounded coverage of the field, the General Editor with expertise in urban planning, public policy, and the environment worked alongside a Consulting Editor with a background in Civil Engineering. The index, Reader’s Guide, and cross references combine for thorough search-and-browse capabilities in the electronic edition. Available in both print and electronic formats, Encyclopedia of Transportation is an ideal reference for libraries and those who want to explore the issues that surround transportation in the United States and around the world.
The last performances of Mario -Reviews - Concert Reports , London and Provincial - Organ Newswill be given in association with the ... Notting Hill Gate - Railway Station They're too learned and dry for the taste of to - day .
Mails are despatched to London , Hull , Brigg , Gainsborough , Northern Counties , and South of England , at 6 a.m ... from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. , on week days only ; and at the Town Railway Station , from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. , on week days .
Author: William White
Publisher:
ISBN: PRNC:32101059999324
Category: Advertising
Page: 884
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Valuable reference book, please ask at library issue desk.
The history of London is so important in national and indeed international terms, it seems extraordinary that this is the first general bibliography of the subject to appear. It contains over 22,000 selected references to books and articles on the history of London, from the Dark Ages to the beginning of the Second World War. The whole of the former GLC area plus the City is covered. Arrangement is by subject, and there is a substantial analytical index. Material for the bibliography was collected from specialist libraries all over London and beyond. It is a starting point for any enquiry about London's development over the centuries, whether from the academic historian, the amateur or the general enquirer. A supplement is planned, to cover new material on the period.
Trivia and anecdotes on 222 railway stations in Europe Richard Deiss. 4.Great Britain and Ireland 4.1 Greater London London Euston and the modernization London Euston was once a railway station in the neoclassical style, built in 1837.
Author: Richard Deiss
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9783752614909
Category: Transportation
Page: 144
View: 794
This book contains anecdotes, trivia and interesting facts on 222 railway stations in Europe, from Amsterdam to Ankara and Lisbon to Helsinki. Das Bahnhofsbuch in englischer Sprache enthält Anekdoten und interessante Fakten zu 222 Bahnhöfen in Europa.