The Great Western Railway route from Paddington to Fishguard was the company's attempt to compete with the London & North Western Railway's Irish route between Euston and Holyhead and to compete for mail traffic to Dublin. While the GWR failed to take the mail contract for Dublin, the company did win mail contracts for the south of Ireland and were involved in developments of the railways there, not least the Great Southern & Western Railway, which ran anywhere between Rosslare, Waterford, Cork,...
"Even More Amazing and Extraordinary Railway Facts" is another fascinating miscellany that will delight railway buffs everywhere. More fun and interesting trivia for the railway buff from the famous steam trains that puffed across the British countryside to long forgotten journeys to interesting facts about the history of the railways. Travel back to the age of steam before becoming up-to-date with railways today. In addition to the fascinating lists of railway trivia such as longest tunnels, wi...
Railroads (Cosimo Classics Business)
by Charles Francis Adams and Jr Charles Francis Adams
History of Bringing the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway to Galesburg
by Clark E Carr
San Francisco just wouldn't be the same without its colorful streetcars and cable cars. These vintage forms of public transit are not only practical ways to explore the City-they're amusement rides that jangle through a mix of historic buildings and vibrant new development, filling your ears with the sound of cables clicking as steel wheels rumble under your feet. At the same time, they're a fleet of unique traveling museums. This field guide from the Market Street Railway tells the remarkable s...
The Bure Valley Railway Recollections (Recollections, #63)
by Gerry Balding, Henry Conn, and Andrew Barnes
The Bure Valley Railway is fast becoming one of England's premier narrow gauge railways, offering a service second to none to the enthusiast, traveller and tourist in all seasons of the year.Steam and diesel trains pass through scenery which is as varied, interesting and beautiful as any to be found on a railway journey in England. Between Aylsham and Wroxham there are three intermediate stations at Brampton, Buxton and Coltishall, all of which have their own characteristics and, if time permits...
The fascinating, previously untold story of the building of one of the great Empire railways and the vision that inspired it. For sheer ambition, arrogance and grandiosity, little rivals the 'Cape-to-Cairo'. The 'Grand Project', as Cecil Rhodes called it, was a scheme to build a railway running the length of Africa, a 'ridgepole holding up the whole Anglo-Saxon Empire'. Against the backdrop of the late nineteenth century 'scramble for Africa', a clan of the wildest champions of the British imper...
The Iron Way
by John and Catherine Angle Professor in the Humanities William G Thomas
A new perspective on the central role of the railroads and slavery in the coming, fighting, and aftermath of the Civil War. Beginning with Frederick Douglass's escape from slavery in 1838 on the railroad, and ending with the driving of the golden spike to link the transcontinental railroad in 1869, this book charts a critical period of American expansion and national formation, one largely dominated by the dynamic growth of railroads and telegraphs. William G. Thomas brings new evidence to bear...
The Mobile & Ohio Railroad was the longest line in the nation when it was completed in spring of 1861-the final spike driven a few weeks after Confederate artillery shelled Fort Sumter. Within days, the M&O was swept up in the Civil War as a prime conveyor of troops and supplies, a strategic and tactical asset to both Confederate and Union armies, who fought to control it. Its northern terminus at Columbus, Kentucky saw some of the earliest fighting in the war. The southern terminus in Mobile,...
History is everywhere, and is never as complete as when it can be accessed on a part of history itself. The locomotive is one of the great steps in progress of civilisation that undoubtably connects us to land and history that was shaped by the machine itself. Although a basic form of railway, or rutway, did exist in Ancient Greek and Roman times – notably the ship trackway between Diolkos and the Isthmus of Corinth around 600 BC – it would take several thousand years before the first fare-payi...