Alfred Raworths Electric Southern Railway
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Author |
: Peter Steer |
Publisher |
: Pen and Sword Transport |
Total Pages |
: 703 |
Release |
: 2022-05-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781526778420 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1526778424 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Alfred Raworth's Electric Southern Railway by : Peter Steer
The Southern Railway between 1923 and 1939 was the only British company to carry out a sustained programme of electrification which became known as the Southern Electric. Unlike many recent projects, each incremental step was completed on time and within budget. This successful project was more impressive as it was achieved during a period of economic stagnation (including the ‘great depression’) and despite government disapproval of the method of electrification. The driving force behind this endeavor was the railway’s general manager, Sir Herbert Walker, but at his side was his electrical engineer, Alfred Raworth, the man one journalist described as an ‘electrification genius’. Alfred Raworth’s career began working with his father the eminent consulting engineer and entrepreneur, John Smith Raworth. Following the collapse of his father’s business Alfred joined the railway industry and devised an ambitious and innovative electrification design. This was discarded when the railways of southern England were ‘grouped’ into the Southern Railway after which he took responsibility for the implementation of the electrification schemes. With Walker’s retirement in 1937, those who continued to support steam traction took the policy lead. A marginalised Raworth retired but was later to witness the fruition of many of his discarded ideas.
Author |
: Peter Steer |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 376 |
Release |
: 2022-04-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1526778416 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781526778413 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Alfred Raworth's Electric Southern Railway by : Peter Steer
The Southern Railway between 1923 and 1939 was the only British company to carry out a sustained program of electrification which became known as the Southern Electric. Unlike many recent projects, each incremental step was completed on time and within budget. This successful project was more impressive as it was achieved during a period of economic stagnation (including the 'great depression') and despite government disapproval of the method of electrification. The driving force behind this endeavor was the railway's general manager, Sir Herbert Walker, but at his side was his electrical engineer, Alfred Raworth, the man one journalist described as an 'electrification genius'.Alfred Raworth's career began working with his father the eminent consulting engineer and entrepreneur, John Smith Raworth. Following the collapse of his father's business Alfred joined the railway industry and devised an ambitious and innovative electrification design. This was discarded when the railways of southern England were 'grouped' into the Southern Railway after which he took responsibility for the implementation of the electrification schemes. With Walker's retirement in 1937, those who continued to support steam traction took the policy lead. A marginalized Raworth retired but was later to witness the fruition of many of his discarded ideas.
Author |
: K. Richardson |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 269 |
Release |
: 1977-06-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781349033881 |
ISBN-13 |
: 134903388X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis The British Motor Industry 1896–1939 by : K. Richardson
Author |
: Joseph Cochrane |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 1876 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433081822888 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Centennial History of Mason County by : Joseph Cochrane
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 848 |
Release |
: 1906 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105125356233 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tramway and Railway World by :
Author |
: Anonymous |
Publisher |
: Legare Street Press |
Total Pages |
: 396 |
Release |
: 2021-09-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1013323459 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781013323454 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Journal of Domestic Appliances; (1905 by : Anonymous
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 1899 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015025951925 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nottinghamshire Parish Registers by :
Author |
: Nikolaus Pevsner |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 396 |
Release |
: 2002-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0300096178 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780300096170 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis North Lancashire by : Nikolaus Pevsner
A guide to an area of extreme contrast, from the close-packed but proudly independent textile towns north of Manchester to the romantic scenery of the southern Lake District, and from high Pennine moors to the sandy beaches of Blackpool and the Fylde Coast.
Author |
: Kenneth Richardson |
Publisher |
: MacMillan |
Total Pages |
: 418 |
Release |
: 1972 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015049814240 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Twentieth-century Coventry by : Kenneth Richardson
Author |
: Zaheda Hina |
Publisher |
: Zubaan |
Total Pages |
: 119 |
Release |
: 2013-07-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789383074334 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9383074337 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis All Passion Spent by : Zaheda Hina
In the mid-nineties Birjees Dawar Ali returns to Pakistan to seek out a history left unfinished long ago, a history from which, nursing heartbreak and betrayal, she had once earlier fled, back to her home in partitioned India. Will she find the family that so generously gave her succour, the home that became her own, the people who gave her unquestioning love? Or will all these certainties have fled with the march of history? A deeply moving narrative of love and loss, All Passion Spent focuses on the unresolved question of the 1947 Partition of India and the emergence of India and Pakistan as two separate countries. Zaheda Hina’s richly layered narrative, brought alive in this lyrical and poetic translation by Neelam Husain, touches on the many unanswered questions that surround this painful history—the profound sense of grief and displacement, the lives sundered midstream, the lost friendships and the quest for new roots and lands under different skies.