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Britain's historic railway buildings : an Oxford gazetteer of structures and sites / Gordon Biddle.
LIBRA TF270 .B53 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Biddle, Gordon.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Railroads--Great Britain--Buildings, structures, etc.
- Railroads.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xxxvi, 759 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- From Penzance station, once described in a local paper as 'a large dog's house of the nastiest and draughtiest kind' to Thurso, famous for housing Britain's most northern train station, Britain's Historic Railway Buildings takes the reader on a fascinating architectural journey along Britain's vast railway network, stopping at over 2,300 historic sites - stations, bridges, tunnels, viaducts, railway hotels, engine and good sheds, offices, warehouses, water towers, signal boxes, crossing-keepers' cottages, and memorials - along the way.
- Notes:
- "Including a selection of illustrations from the National Railway archive."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198662475
- OCLC:
- 51840210
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