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Pictorial Story of Railways, The by Cornwell w/ dust jacket Photos 5 continents
The Pictorial Story of Railways Cornwell
Hard cover with Dust Jacket. Edited by E.L. Cornwell.
Copyright 1972-74.
226 pages. Indexed.
Table Of Contents
Introduction 6
Bull-Head to Flat-Bottom
8
Railways Before Locomotives . . . 12
George Stephenson 14
The Stockton and Darlington . . . 16
Rainhill Trials 20
Locomotives or Fixed Engines . . . 22
The First Main-Line Locomotives . 24
The Great Innovators 26
The First Railways in Europe . . . 30
The First Railways in America . 32
Early Railway Workshops
34
The Railway Mania 36
Railway Signalling 38
The Railways of Ireland
43
Crewe — Locos and Men
49
Steam in Germany 53
Railways at War 58
Kriegslokomotiven 67
Development of the Railway Carriage 71
Royal Trains 75
The North American Railway
Carriage 79
Railways of Scotland 85
The World's Great Bridges
90
The World's Largest Tunnels . . 95
Rails Across the Rockies
101
Union Pacific Southern Pacific
Santa Fe 105
The CPR Canadian 111
Railways of Australia
117
Railways of New Zealand
127
The Railways of India
.... 133
The Railways of Fiji
... 137
Railways of Austria 143
Jugoslavia — Narrow Gauge
Magnificent 149
Railways Through the Alps 153
Spain — Europe's Last Stronghold
of Steam 158
The Narrow Gauge in Portugal 163
Minor French Railways
167
Russian Steam Locomotives
173
The First 100 MPH on Rails 178
Birth of Electric Traction 182
How They Built London's Railways —
Underground 187
Rubber Tyred Metros 192
135 Years of Railway Tickets 196
Big Steam in South Africa 201
The Hedjaz Railway . .....
209
Railways on the Roof of the World . 213
Steam in the Andes of Ecuador . . 217
Monorails and all That
223
Double Deck Trains .
..... 227
Industrial Steam 232
Power Unlimited — The Electric
Locomotive 235
Japan's new Tokaido Line 241
Channel Tunnel 245
Ground Transport of the Future . . 249
Index 254
This magnificent book traces the development, production and application of the railway train from its beginnings in the Industrial Revolution to the 150 mph railways of today. The story is told with the help of hundreds of superb photographs in color and black and white, printed with a lavish use of second color tints. The development of railways in all five continents is described, with the men who built them and the advances in civil engineering which made them possible.
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