Trevor Yorke's book describes the development of Victorian stations, with their wide range of architectural influences and styles, and discusses the notable architects employed to create them. Britain's Architectural History series.
The London Underground, or Tube, is an icon: it is the world's oldest underground rail network and remains one of its largest and busiest. The Haynes London Underground Manual provides a detailed insight into its design, construction, operation and maintenance, featuring fascinating photographs and drawings ...
When the first section of the future London Underground network opened, it represented the first serious attempt to use railways as a means of improving public transport access into the heart of a pre-existing urban environment. Steam, however, was not an ideal means of propulsion in long tunnel sections ...
This 5th edition of the handbook covers all parts of the extended DLR, with chapters on each section, the origins and building of the railway, trains and station design, signaling, power supply and details of approved and potential extensions.
This is the sequel to "Tales of the Old Railwaymen". Ten elderly railwaymen with a wealth of extraordinary memories of a long-lost era before the war offer some remarkable railway reminiscences.
... Once viewed as a plaything of the wealthy and eccentric, the car is now an integral part of modern life. The Car takes us on a tour of the many roles that the automobile has played in its lifetime, and the many guise and different models in which it has appeared ... The Car is a social history of ...
These brief histories of each Underground line are written by the leading authorities on the history of the system. Each uses photographs, some in colour, from the London Transport Museum archive collection.
"Takes a comprehensive view, covering: The history of the component railways; the physical works needed; development of the orbital concept; fitting in the freight traffic; rolling stock and service provision; challenges for the future"--Jacket.
Between 1923 and 1947 the railway poster in Britain was in its heyday. These were the years of the so-called 'Big Four' companies: the Great Western Railway, Southern Railway, London Midland and Scottish Railway, and London and North Eastern Railway. In the competition for passengers, each of the companies ...
