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7 produkter
Terror in the Tunnels
Britain’s Dangerous Railway History
Häftad, 2017
185 kr
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The exciting early days of the railways were tempered with danger, as the Victorian concept of health and safety was rather different to ours. Going ‘into the dark’ was a frightening experience and tunneling under the ground and under water was a death-defying activity in nineteenth-century Britain …
Death, Dynamite and Disaster
A Grisly British Railway History
Häftad, 2022
155 kr
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A safe mode of transport today, the railways were far from vehicles of sleepy commute when they first came into service; indeed, accidents were commonplace and sometimes were a result of something far more sinister. In this fresh approach to railway history, Rosa Matheson explores the grim and …
Trip
The Annual Holiday of GWR's Swindon Works
Häftad, 2002
239 kr
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'Trip', if you happened to be a Swindonian and one that worked 'inside' the Great Western Railway's Swindon Works, was the event of the year. When, in 1848, a party of some 500 made up of men from the Mechanics Institution and their families took the company's gratis train to Oxford, they set a …
Fair Sex: Women and the Great Western Railway
Häftad, 2007
207 kr
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The Great Western Railway struggled with what was called 'the women question' for many years. It had heartily agreed with The Railway Sheet and Official Gazette that 'the first aim of women's existence is marriage, that accomplished, the next is ordering her home'. Yet women were the cheapest form …
'Inside' Swindon Works
Railway Voices
Häftad, 2008
212 kr
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It was often joked that Swindon Works' men came with 'GWR' stamped on their bottoms, so much so that even in the BR era they considered themselves Great Western! Those who worked 'Inside' as locals called it, possessed a fierce price in their work and in their worldwide reputation. Using material …
Doing Time Inside
Apprenticeship and Training in GWR's Swindon Works
Häftad, 2011
209 kr
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The Great Western Railway’s Swindon Works was the largest employer in the area, even during the early British Railway years. For well over a hundred years thousands of apprentices and ‘trainees’ passed through its doors to learn the trades of the railways. Throughout its lifetime the apprenticeship …
Great British Steam Locomotives that Made History
The Story of Railways in Britain
Inbunden, 2025
187 kr
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From small beginnings in ancient times, the ‘magic of steam’ grew until it delivered to an incredulous world a magnificent machine: the steam locomotive – and so began what was to become a never-ending love story.Many believed the ‘Age of Steam’ would die in the 1960s, but the passion for these …
