Author: Wilfred L. Steel
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-10-13
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9780265280331
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Excerpt from The History of the London North Western Railway This work does not claim to be a technical treatise with every detail of railway working carefully described and explained, it is merely meant to be a history for the non technical reader, inwhich an attempt is made to show how the great system has been built up piecemeal, and to give the chief engineering features of interest, a few details of the more famous locomotives, and a brief resume' of the improve ments in train services, whilst the financial history of the company is also briefly dealt with. In compiling this history reference has had to be made to an innumerable list of books, vi. History of the London and north-western Railway. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.