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Locomotive Panorama
Motion Pictures From The Library of Congress Paper Print Collection 1894-1912
Catalogue of Educational Motion Picture Films
The Railway and Modernity
Author: Matthew Beaumont
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9783039110247
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Most research and writing on railway history has been undertaken in a way that disconnects it from the wider cultural milieu. Authors have been very effective at constructing specialist histories of transport, but have failed to register the railway's central importance in the representation and understanding of modernity. This book brings together contributions from a range of established scholars in a variety of disciplines with the central purpose of exploring the railway less as a transport technology than as a key signifier of capitalist modernity. It examines the complex social relations in which the railway became historically embedded, identifying it as a central problematic in the cultural experience of modernity. It avoids the limitations of both the close-sighted empiricism typical of many transport historians and the long-sighted generalizations of cultural commentators who view the railway merely as a shorthand for the concept of progress over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book draws on a diverse range of materials, including literary and historical forms of representation. It is also informed by a creative application of various critical theories.
British Railways Steam 1948-1970
Author: L. A. Summers
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2014-12-15
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 1445634783
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Railway sleuth Les Summers unravels the politics and policies that led to the abandonment of steam traction under British Railways. In this fascinating account, he examines the twilight of steam in the era that shaped the future of our railways.
Alfred Raworth's Electric Southern Railway
Author: Peter Steer
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
Published: 2022-05-05
Total Pages: 703
ISBN-13: 1526778424
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Southern Railway between 1923 and 1939 was the only British company to carry out a sustained programme of electrification which became known as the Southern Electric. Unlike many recent projects, each incremental step was completed on time and within budget. This successful project was more impressive as it was achieved during a period of economic stagnation (including the ‘great depression’) and despite government disapproval of the method of electrification. The driving force behind this endeavor was the railway’s general manager, Sir Herbert Walker, but at his side was his electrical engineer, Alfred Raworth, the man one journalist described as an ‘electrification genius’. Alfred Raworth’s career began working with his father the eminent consulting engineer and entrepreneur, John Smith Raworth. Following the collapse of his father’s business Alfred joined the railway industry and devised an ambitious and innovative electrification design. This was discarded when the railways of southern England were ‘grouped’ into the Southern Railway after which he took responsibility for the implementation of the electrification schemes. With Walker’s retirement in 1937, those who continued to support steam traction took the policy lead. A marginalised Raworth retired but was later to witness the fruition of many of his discarded ideas.
Flying Scotsman, and the Story of Gresley's First Pacific Locomotives
Author: Tim Hillier-Graves
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2023-12-30
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1399059564
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Herbert Nigel Gresley’s first Pacifics, though notable in their day, were made universally famous by one of their number – 4722 Flying Scotsman. Throughout her life she has been feted and glamorised far more than any of her sisters and yet when appearing from the LNER Works at Doncaster in 1923 she was just another member of the class, but at some stage, early in her career, she acquired star status and to this day has not lost it. But why is this so and why do people care so deeply about this locomotive even though her deeds were easily exceeded by Gresley’s A4 Pacifics? Was it her styling, her name, her performance or simply the work of very talented purveyors of slick PR? Or was it an amalgam of all these issues? As Flying Scotsman reaches 100 ‘not out’ it is fascinating to reflect on these questions. But to do so we must consider how the Class came about, how they were developed, the impact they made on society as it was then, how they were sold to a waiting public and much more. From all this we may be able to understand why 4472 rose above the others and became an icon that still graces our lives today. It is, the author believes, a story without parallel in railway history.
Swindon Steam
Author: L. A. Summers
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2013-08-15
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1445616963
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book investigates the facts behind the myths and mysteries of the Swindon Steam.
