Amazing and Curious Railway Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Amazing and Curious Railway Tales write by Colin G. Maggs. This book was released on 2021-06-17. Amazing and Curious Railway Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Who won in a race between a train and a pigeon? How can you warn bats to leave a railway tunnel? Before the era of the car, which railway company carried the most prisoners? Colin G. Maggs has collected all of these answers – and more! – in Amazing and Curious Railway Tales, a compendium of stories, curiosities and little-known facts about Britain's railways.
A 1930s Childhood
A 1930s Childhood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A 1930s Childhood write by Colin G. Maggs. This book was released on 2022-02-10. A 1930s Childhood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Do you remember collecting birds' eggs and cigarette cards? Or the first appearances of wrapped sweets like Mars and Milky Way? The 1930s was a time of great progress, as engines took over from horses, and electric light from gas and oil. In the background, change was everywhere, with the Mallard speed record, the abdication of the King, and the increasing spectre of the impending Second World War. It was a time of home cooking, and day-trip holidays, when families kept chickens and children played with bows and arrows. This delightfully nostalgic book will take you right back to a different age, recalling what life was like for those growing up in the 1930s.
Along Different Lines
Along Different Lines - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Along Different Lines write by Geoff Body. This book was released on 2012-11-01. Along Different Lines available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Running a railway is a complex business. However organised it is, there will always be surprises: often hilarious, frequently unexpected, but sometimes serious. Along Different Lines includes such bizarre 'everyday' events as coping with hurricanes, rogue locomotives and runaway wagons; PR successes and otherwise; the Brighton Belle, Flying Scotsman and Mallard; training-course capers; a wino invasion; trackside antics; the Eurostar backdrop; the birth of a prison; and royal and other special occasions. Expert authors Geoff Body and Bill Parker lovingly compiled this entertaining collection in which railway professionals recall notable incidents from across their careers. This illustrated compilation provides an enjoyable look back at life on the railways.
Death, Dynamite and Disaster
Death, Dynamite and Disaster - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death, Dynamite and Disaster write by Rosa Matheson. This book was released on 2014-05-05. Death, Dynamite and Disaster available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A safe mode of transport today, the railways were far from vehicles of sleepy commute when they first came into service; indeed, accidents were commonplace and sometimes were a result of something far more sinister. In this fresh approach to railway history, Rosa Matheson explores the grim and grisly railway past. These horrible happenings include memorable disasters and accidents, the lack of burial grounds for London's dead, leading to the 'Necropolis Railway', the gruesome necessity of digging up the dead to accommodate the railways and how the discovery of dynamite gave rise to the 'Dynamite Wars' on the London Underground in the 1880s and 1890s. Join Rosa as she treads carefully through the fascinating gruesome history of Britain's railways.
Real Railway Tales
Real Railway Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Real Railway Tales write by Geoff Body. This book was released on 2014-05-05. Real Railway Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Running a railway is a complex business, constantly throwing up drama, misadventure and the unexpected. Geoff Body and Bill Parker have collated a rich selection of railwaymen’s memories and anecdotes to create an enjoyable book of escapades and mishaps, illustrating the daily obstacles faced on the railways, from handling the new Eurostar to train catering, nights on the Tay Bridge to rail ‘traffic cops’, and from mystery derailments to track subsidence. However interesting the infrastructure of the large and varied railway business may be, the real heart of this great industry lies in its people, the complex jobs they occupy and the dedicated way in which they carry them out.
