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Author : Robert Francis Fairlie
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)
Download or read book Railways Or No Railways written by Robert Francis Fairlie and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Francis Fairlie
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Download or read book Railways or no Railways. Narrow gauge ... v. Broad gauge, etc written by Robert Francis Fairlie and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wyndham Harding
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)
Download or read book Uniformity of Gauge written by Wyndham Harding and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wyndham HARDING (F.R.S.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)
Download or read book Railways. The Gauge Question. Evils of a diversity of gauge, and a remedy written by Wyndham HARDING (F.R.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas J. Puffert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226685098
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tracks Across Continents, Paths Through History written by Douglas J. Puffert and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A standard track gauge—the distance between the two rails—enables connecting railway lines to exchange traffic. But despite the benefits of standardization, early North American railways used six different gauges extensively, and even today breaks of gauge at national borders and within such countries as India and Australia are expensive burdens on commerce. In Tracks across Continents, Paths through History, Douglas J. Puffert offers a global history of railway track gauge, examining early choices and the dynamic process of diversity and standardization that resulted. Drawing on the economic theory of path dependence, and grounded in economic, technical, and institutional realities, this innovative volume traces how early historical events, and even idiosyncratic personalities, have affected choices of gauge ever since, despite changing technology and understandings of what gauge is optimal. Puffert also uses this history to develop new insights in the theory of path dependence. Tracks across Continents, Paths through History will be essential reading for anyone interested in how history and economics inform each other.
Author : Howard Fleming
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385214939
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)
Download or read book Narrow Gauge Railways in America written by Howard Fleming and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-18 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : Tim Bryan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784422835
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)
Download or read book Broad Gauge Railways written by Tim Bryan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isambard Kingdom Brunel considered the Great Western Railway the 'finest work in England' and he contributed many groundbreaking features, none so unorthodox as the decision not to adopt the 'standard' track gauge of 4ft 81⁄2in and instead introduce the new 'broad gauge' of 7ft 1⁄4in. Describing the rationale behind the choice of broad gauge, and also the unique track and locomotives used, this beautifully illustrated introduction to broad gauge railways chronicles the building of the original GWR between Bristol and London, and the expansion of that original 112-mile main line into a network stretching across the West of England, Wales and the Midlands. It describes how the clash between broad and narrow led to the 'Battle of the Gauges' and also provides a list of places to visit where broad gauge artefacts still survive.
Author : Wyndham Harding
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368866478
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)
Download or read book Railways the Gauge Question: Evils of a Diversity of Gauge, and a Remedy written by Wyndham Harding and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-21 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Author : BRIAN. ARMAN
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911038764
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)
Download or read book BROAD GAUGE ENGINES OF THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY written by BRIAN. ARMAN and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Narrow-Gauge Railway Convention
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the National Narrow-gauge Railway Convention, Held at St. Louis, Mo., June 19, 1872 written by National Narrow-Gauge Railway Convention and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
