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Railway Heritage of Britain, The 150 years of railway architecture& engineering
The Railway Heritage of Britain 150 years of railway architecture and engineering By Gordon Biddle and O S Nock Dust Jacket 1983 270 Pages
RAILWAYS and railway stations have always been associated with romance, adventure and the pioneering spirit. They caught the Victorian imagination, and the proud and individual Victorian railway companies became some of the most prolific and inventive builders of the Industrial Revolution. The rich, diverse and exciting styles of Victorian architecture in all its forms were faithfully taken up by the railway companies.
The Railway Heritage of Britain is the first comprehensive illustrated guide to the outstanding landmarks and little-known treasures along the main and branch lines of the national network. It covers an enormous variety of subjects: not only stations, bridges, tunnels and viaducts but hotels, engine sheds, warehouses, water towers and signal boxes, crossing keepers' cottages and war memorials, not to mention a coaling staith and a 14th-century refectory pulpit in a goods yard.
The railway network was built by well over a hundred different companies, each with its own distinctive style. All the main ones are introduced in the book, together with their locomotives and rolling stock, their platform signs, tickets and operating equipment. Biographical portraits of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Robert Stephenson, Sir William Tite, the Cubitts and other leading architects and engineers complete this region-by-region history of British railway building as it can still be seen and appreciated today.
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