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Author: Oliver Green
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Published: 2021-11-23
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0711266611
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A lavish photographic history of all the key railway stations of London for transport buffs and anyone interested in the rich history of London.
Author: Geoff Swaine
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
Published: 2022-03-10
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 1526761890
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book covers in pictures, the history and development of London's main terminal stations, looking at the stations through the lens of photographers from Victorian and Edwardian times through to the modern era. The main terminal stations in London have changed greatly in the last 150 years, this volume seeks through pictures to capture the spirit of those changes, showing the often interesting and colorful history of these great and often beautiful structures, that are an important part of our railway heritage.
Author: John Christopher
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2015-12-15
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 1445651114
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the capital’s major railway stations have changed and developed over the years.
Author: Robert Lordan
Publisher: The Crowood Press
Published: 2021-05-24
Total Pages: 487
ISBN-13: 1785008692
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →London's Waterloo Station is Britain's biggest and busiest railway terminal and, at over 170 years old, has a rich and fascinating history to discover. This book takes an in-depth look at the terminal's past, covering all decades from the 1840s to the present day. With over 160 archive and contemporary photographs, it includes: Waterloo's precursor, Nine Elms; the expansion and chaos that occurred in the late nineteenth century; how Waterloo fared during the two World Wars and the Necropolis Railway which, for almost ninety years, conveyed coffins to Brookwood Cemetery. The curious satellite station, Waterloo East, is covered along with the Waterloo and City line link to the capital's financial heart. There is the story behind London's first Eurostar terminal and the station's impact on popular culture, including literature, film, television, art and music. Finally, there is a revealing insight into what lies beneath the station, in the vast, cavernous area that the public never get to see.....
Author: John Betjeman
Publisher:
Published: 2001-04-01
Total Pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9781854142542
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David Bownes
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2019-09-03
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0300245793
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Travel under the streets of London with this lavishly illustrated exploration of abandoned, modified, and reused Underground tunnels, stations, and architecture.
Author: Simon Jenkins
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2017-09-28
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0241978998
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The perfect new gift from the bestselling author of Britain's 1000 Best Churches It is the scene for our hopeful beginnings and our intended ends, and the timeless experiences of coming and going, meeting, greeting and parting. It is an institution with its own rituals and priests, and a long-neglected aspect of Britain's architecture. And yet so little do we look at the railway station. Simon Jenkins has travelled the length and breadth of Great Britain, from Waterloo to Wemyss Bay, Betws-y-Coed to Beverley, to select his hundred best. Blending his usual insight and authority with his personal reflections and experiences - including his founding the Railway Heritage Trust - the foremost expert on our national heritage deftly reveals the history, geography, design and significance of each of these glories. Beautifully illustrated with colour photographs throughout, this joyous exploration of our social history shows the station's role in the national imagination; champions the engineers, architects and rival companies that made them possible; and tells the story behind the triumphs and follies of these very British creations. These are the marvellous, often undersung places that link our nation, celebrated like never before.
Author: Chris Heather
Publisher: The Crowood Press
Published: 2018-10-23
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 0719827655
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Built as part of the massive expansion of Great Britain's railway network during the nineteenth century, London's thirteen mainline railway stations are proud symbols of the nation's industrial and architectural heritage. Produced in association with The National Archives, and profusely illustrated with period photographs and diagrams, London Railway Stations tells the story of these iconic stations and of the people who created them and used them. Though built in an age of steam, smoke, gas lamps and horses, most retain features of their original design. This book will bring new light to these old buildings, and help you to see London's mainline stations through new eyes. Lavishly illustrated with black & white and some colour photographs.
Author: Jeffrey Richards
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780571269037
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the preface the authors describe their approach, 'In examining the social history of railway stations we were concerned to treat them not as inanimate objects, but as living, breathing places which, better than any other building type of the last 150 years, reflected the societies around them, public buildings which people used in all sorts of ways and whose significance they instantly recognized when depicted in the theatre, the cinema, paintings, photographs, poetry, novels, and travel works. For this reason we have chosen to allow other voices to tell part of the story, to illustrate through quotation the central, but often differing, role of the station in so many societies and so many lives.'They succeed triumphantly in this aim. After the introduction aptly called 'The Mystique of the Railway Station' there are fifteen absorbing chapters covering: The Station in Architecture (three chapters); The Station and Society; The Station in Politics; Class, Race, and Sex; Some Station Types; The Station in the Economy (two chapters); The Station as Place of Work; The Station in Wartime (two chapters); The Usual Offices; The Station in Painting and Poetry, Postcard and Poster; and The Station in Literature and Film. The scope is comprehensive, the achievement magnificent.'written with great enthusiasm . . . packed with rich detail. This is real social history.' Asa Briggs'full of good quotations, and (the authors) write with the infectious enthusiasm of addicts, captivated by the romance of railways' Times Literary Supplement'remarkable . . . the railway station in all its aspects' A. N. Wilson.
