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Great British Railway Journeys
E-bok, 2011
159 kr
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The Sunday Times BestsellerA glorious insight into Britain over the last 150 years - its history, landscape and people - from the window of Britain’s many and magnificent railway journeys.Inspired by George Bradshaw, a 19th-century cartographer who mapped Britain’s railways as they sprung up around …
Great British Railway Journeys Text Only
E-bok, 2011
159 kr
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TEXT ONLY EBThe Sunday Times BestsellerA glorious insight into Britain over the last 150 years - its history, landscape and people - from the window of Britain’s many and magnificent railway journeys.Inspired by George Bradshaw, a 19th-century cartographer who mapped Britain’s railways as they …
Journey 1: Liverpool to Scarborough
E-bok, 2013
159 kr
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A glorious insight into the history, landscape and people of Britain, from The Sunday Times bestseller.George Stephenson’s Liverpool & Manchester Railway was the first in the world where steam locomotives pulled paying passengers, and his locomotive the Rocket changed the face of travelling in …
Journey 3: Buxton to London
E-bok, 2013
159 kr
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A glorious insight into the history, landscape and people of Britain, from The Sunday Times bestseller.One of the earliest railway freight routes in Britain, the Buxton to London line was built to whisk goods to the nation’s capital. Starting at the elegant spa town of Buxton, Michael Portillo …
Journey 2: Swindon to Penzance
E-bok, 2013
159 kr
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A glorious insight into the history, landscape and people of Britain, from The Sunday Times bestseller.Nicknamed the `Holiday Line’, the 300-mile stretch of railway from Swindon to Penzance opened up the South West to a new breed of holiday-makers in the Victorian age, laying the foundations of the …
Journey 4: Preston to Edinburgh
E-bok, 2013
159 kr
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A glorious insight into the history, landscape and people of Britain, from The Sunday Times bestseller.The first rail link between England and Scotland, the Preston to Edinburgh line transformed some of the most remote and inaccessible communities of Britain and fuelled the growth of resorts such …
Journey 5: Ledbury to Holyhead
E-bok, 2013
159 kr
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A glorious insight into the history, landscape and people of Britain, from The Sunday Times bestseller.The Holyhead line was first built to carry mail from Wales to Ireland, but brought many changes to industries along its route, including perry-makers, Hereford cattle farmers, Cheshire …
Journey 6: Ayr to Skye
E-bok, 2013
155 kr
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A glorious insight into the history, landscape and people of Britain, from The Sunday Times bestseller.The Scottish west coast was one of the most challenging stretches of line to confront railway engineers. Extreme gradients, curves, bogs and scree left them scrambling around for ideas, but the …
Journey 7: Newcastle to Melton Mowbray
E-bok, 2013
60 kr
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A glorious insight into the history, landscape and people of Britain, from The Sunday Times bestseller.George Stephenson, the father of the railways, first began laying rails to connect the Darlington collieries with the river at Stockton-on-Tees in the 1820s, and it has since become a place of …
Journey 8: Brighton to Cromer
E-bok, 2013
159 kr
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A glorious insight into the history, landscape and people of Britain, from The Sunday Times bestseller.The railway line between Brighton and London bridged the gap between capital, countryside and coast, fostering the rise of the new middle classes created by the Industrial revolution and …
Journey 9: London to Hastings
E-bok, 2013
159 kr
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A glorious insight into the history, landscape and people of Britain, from The Sunday Times bestseller.Historically Kent has been both the garden of England and its first line of defence and the train journey from London to Hastings reflects these contrasts. Michael Portillo travels through …
