The Flying Scotsman Pocket-Book

The Flying Scotsman Pocket-Book
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 128
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781784424718
ISBN-13 : 1784424714
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis The Flying Scotsman Pocket-Book by : R H N Hardy

The LNER Class A3 Pacific locomotive No. 4472 'Flying Scotsman' is one of the world's most iconic steam engines. It was built in 1923 for the London and North Eastern Railway at Doncaster Works to a design by Nigel Gresley. Taking its name from the London to Edinburgh non-stop service on which it was employed, 'Flying Scotsman' worked many long-distance express trains in a career in which it covered more than 2,000,000 miles (3,200,000 km). This fascinating pocket-book tells the story of this distinguished locomotive through authentic period literature including LNER and BR service manuals, giving an insight into her construction and operation from the height of her fame in the 1930s through to the end of her BR service in 1963.

The Flying Scotsman

The Flying Scotsman
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 57
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780747809463
ISBN-13 : 0747809461
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis The Flying Scotsman by : Bob Gwynne

The Flying Scotsman is probably the most famous railway locomotive in the world. It first caused a sensation for its beauty and its speed in 1923, and it soon became a national icon. The fastest and most comfortable way of travelling between London and Scotland, The Flying Scotsman only got faster and more luxurious as competition from other routes, airlines, and the motor car threatened. From 1928 it began running non-stop, an achievement that earned it yet more attention. This superbly illustrated book celebrates the much-loved locomotive, the train that shared its name, the route it took, and how it captured the imagination of the nation.

My Adventure in the Flying Scotsman

My Adventure in the Flying Scotsman
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 78
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ISBN-10 : WISC:89006956684
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis My Adventure in the Flying Scotsman by : Eden Phillpotts

My Adventure in the Flying Scotsman; A Romance of London and North-Western Railway Shares

My Adventure in the Flying Scotsman; A Romance of London and North-Western Railway Shares
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Publisher : Good Press
Total Pages : 32
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ISBN-10 : EAN:4064066093648
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis My Adventure in the Flying Scotsman; A Romance of London and North-Western Railway Shares by : Eden Phillpotts

This book is an incredible story of John Lott, a small, middle-aged banking clerk, who lived in North London. The story of this gentle and respected man was narrated to the author by Lott himself, but the author has presented it in a first-person narrative to preserve his true nature and characteristics. The writing style of the book is sublime and the story absorbing. It is easily comprehensible which holds the reader's interest throughout. Excerpt from My Adventure in the Flying Scotsman "THE rain gave over about five o'clock, and the sun, having struggled unavailingly all day with a leaden November sky, burst forth in fiery rage, when but a few short minutes separated him from the horizon. His tawny splendour surrounded me as I trudged from Richmond, in Surrey, to the neighbouring hamlet of Petersham. Above me the wet, naked branches of the trees shone red, and seemed to drip with blood; the hedgerows sparkled their flaming gems; in the meadows, which I struck across to save time, parallel streaks of crimson lay along the cart-ruts. "

The Flying Scotsman Pocket-Book

The Flying Scotsman Pocket-Book
Author :
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 129
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781784424749
ISBN-13 : 1784424749
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis The Flying Scotsman Pocket-Book by : R H N Hardy

The LNER Class A3 Pacific locomotive No. 4472 'Flying Scotsman' is one of the world's most iconic steam engines. It was built in 1923 for the London and North Eastern Railway at Doncaster Works to a design by Nigel Gresley. Taking its name from the London to Edinburgh non-stop service on which it was employed, 'Flying Scotsman' worked many long-distance express trains in a career in which it covered more than 2,000,000 miles (3,200,000 km). This fascinating pocket-book tells the story of this distinguished locomotive through authentic period literature including LNER and BR service manuals, giving an insight into her construction and operation from the height of her fame in the 1930s through to the end of her BR service in 1963.

The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part I

The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part I
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Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Total Pages : 547
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781780928265
ISBN-13 : 1780928262
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part I by : David Marcum

Part One of a record breaking three-volume collection, bringing together over sixty of the world’s leading Sherlock Holmes authors. All the stories are traditional Sherlock Holmes pastiches. This volume covers the years from 1881 to 1889, including contributions from:John Hall, Hugh Ashton, Adrian Middleton, David Marcum, Jayantika Ganguly, Denis O. Smith, Amy Thomas, Kevin David Barratt, Luke Benjamen Kuhns, Summer Perkins, Deanna Baran, Shane Simmons, C.H. Dye, Mark Mower, Derrick Belanger , Daniel D. Victor, Steve Mountain, Stephen Wade, John Heywood, Will Thomas, Daniel McGachey, Martin Rosenstock, Craig Janacek, (and a poem from Michael Kurland). The authors are donating all the royalties from the collection to preservation projects at Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s former home, Undershaw.

Food on the Move

Food on the Move
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Publisher : Reaktion Books
Total Pages : 257
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781789140187
ISBN-13 : 1789140188
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Food on the Move by : Sharon Hudgins

All aboard for a delicious ride on nine legendary railway journeys! Meals associated with train travel have been an important ingredient of railway history for more than a century—from dinners in dining cars to lunches at station buffets and foods purchased from platform vendors. For many travelers, the experience of eating on a railway journey is often a highlight of the trip, a major part of the “romance of the rails.” A delight for rail enthusiasts, foodies, and armchair travelers alike, Food on the Move serves up the culinary history of these famous journeys on five continents, from the earliest days of rail travel to the present. Chapters invite us to table for the haute cuisine of the elegant dining carriages on the Orient Express; the classic American feast of steak-and-eggs on the Santa Fe Super Chief; and home-cooked regional foods along the Trans-Siberian tracks. We eat our way across Canada’s vast interior and Australia’s spectacular and colorful Outback; grab an infamous “British railway sandwich” to munch on the Flying Scotsman; snack on spicy samosas on the Darjeeling Himalayan Toy Train; dine at high speed on Japan’s bullet train, the Shinkansen; and sip South African wines in a Blue Train—a luxury lounge-car featuring windows of glass fused with gold dust. Written by eight authors who have traveled on those legendary lines, these chapters include recipes from the dining cars and station eateries, taken from historical menus and contributed by contemporary chefs, as well as a bounty of illustrations. A toothsome commingling of dinner triangles and train whistles, this collection is a veritable feast of meals on the move.

The English Catalogue of Books

The English Catalogue of Books
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1900
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015036924119
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis The English Catalogue of Books by : Sampson Low

Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.

A World History of Railway Cultures, 1830-1930

A World History of Railway Cultures, 1830-1930
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 2985
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781351211833
ISBN-13 : 1351211838
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis A World History of Railway Cultures, 1830-1930 by : Matthew D. Esposito

A World History of Railway Cultures, 1830-1930 is the first collection of primary sources to historicize the cultural impact of railways on a global scale from their inception in Great Britain to the Great Depression. Its dual purpose is to promote understanding of complex historical processes leading to globalization and generate interest in transnational and global comparative research on railways. In four volumes, organized by historical geography, this scholarly collection gathers rare out-of-print published and unpublished materials from archival and digital repositories throughout the world. It adopts a capsule approach that focuses on short selections of significant primary source content instead of redundant and irrelevant materials found in online data collections. The current collection draws attention to railway cultures through railroad reports, parliamentary papers, government documents, police reports, public health records, engineering reports, technical papers, medical surveys, memoirs, diaries, travel narratives, ethnographies, newspaper articles, editorials, pamphlets, broadsides, paintings, cartoons, engravings, photographs, art, ephemera, and passages from novels and poetry collections that shed light on the cultural history of railways. The editor’s original essays and headnotes on the cultural politics of railways introduce over 200 carefully selected primary sources. Students and researchers come to understand railways not as applied technological impositions of industrial capitalism but powerful, fluid, and idiosyncratic historical constructs.