The Lost Railways Of Yorkshires West Riding

Author : Neil Burgess
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ISBN 13 : 9781840336559
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Railways of Yorkshire's West Riding written by Neil Burgess and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This area of Yorkshire's West Riding was one of the parts of Britain most affected by the Industrial Revolution and its major towns are still synonymous with manufacturing, mining and the textile industry. The area was densely populated so demand for freight and passenger railway services was immense, resulting in many lines. The network has been cut back hugely in the years since the end of steam, but the glory days are recalled in this book which features 135 period photographs.

Author : Neil Burgess
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781840336573
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Railways of Yorkshire's West Riding written by Neil Burgess and published by . This book was released on 2014-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This area of Yorkshire's West Riding was one of the parts of Britain most affected by the Industrial Revolution and its major towns are still synonymous with manufacturing, mining and the textile industry. The area was densely populated so demand for freight and passenger railway services was immense, resulting in many lines. The network has been cut back hugely in the years since the end of steam, but the glory days are recalled in this book which features 135 period photographs.

Author : Neil Burgess
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ISBN 13 : 9781840336566
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Railways of Yorkshire's West Riding written by Neil Burgess and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bernard Warr
Publisher : The Crowood Press
ISBN 13 : 1785008471
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Railways of the West Riding of Yorkshire written by Bernard Warr and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The West Riding of Yorkshire boasted the most complex railway network in Britain, comprised at various times of seven railway companies, with an eighth trying to secure a foothold, eleven significant joint lines and several minor systems. With no overall strategic pattern of territory or route, the companies seemed to vie incessantly for supremacy, often at the expense of efficiency with the significant duplication of facilities: over twenty-five towns and villages had two passenger stations, while some even had three or four! This book reviews the local history, including its economy and key industries. It describes the need for the railways and the political and geographical challenges they faced. It discusses the impact on the region of 'railway mania' experienced throughout Britain in the mid-nineteenth century. The many locomotives that worked these lines are celebrated, with a behind-the-scenes look at their yards, sheds and roundhouses. The lost branch lines and stations are remembered. Finally, there are individual chapters covering Leeds, Doncaster, Barnsley and the coalfields, Sheffield and Rotherham, Airedale and Wharfedale, the Aire and Calder watershed, the Calder Valley and Huddersfield.

Author : Neil Burgess
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781840335521
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Railways of Yorkshire's East Riding written by Neil Burgess and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Neil Burgess
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781840335552
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Railways of Yorkshire's North Riding written by Neil Burgess and published by . This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gordon Suggitt
Publisher : Countryside Books (GB)
ISBN 13 : 9781846740435
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Railways of South and West Yorkshire written by Gordon Suggitt and published by Countryside Books (GB). This book was released on 2007 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's counties of South and West Yorkshire were among the first to witness the birth of the Railway Age. The need to link local mills, mines and quarries with their customers, both at home and overseas, soon led to a high density network. But this golden age was not to last. Competition from electric trams, lorries, buses and cars, plus a duplication of lines, began to take its toll. Lines began to close to passengers as early as 1917 and the decline continued through later decades. Fortunately, some have been preserved by enthusiastic societies and the reopened sections of track flourish, with passenger steam trains at weekends. One such line is the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, which has also proved popular with camera crews for films like The Railway Children, and episodes of Poirot and Last of the Summer Wine. Due in 4th October.

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ISBN 13 : 9780852063354
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Railways in Yorkshire: West Riding written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Minnis
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 1781317739
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain's Lost Railways written by John Minnis and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Railways in Yorkshire written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: