Railways : a history in drawings / Christopher Valkoinen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valkoinen, Christopher, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Railroad engineering--Great Britain--History--Pictorial works.

Railroad engineering.

Railroads--Great Britain--History--Pictorial works.

Railroads.

Railroads--Great Britain--Drawings.

History.

Great Britain.

Genre:

History.

Pictorial works.

Drawings.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

306 pages (1 folded) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour), plans (black and white, and colour) ; 25 x 34 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Thames & Hudson, 2021.

Summary:

"At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the first railway was established in Great Britain, contributing to the country's dramatic social and economic revolution. Detailed plans were created of locomotives, carriages, wagons, stations, bridges, and tunnels to facilitate the manufacturing process and maintenance of the railway network. Miraculously, about one million of these exquisite drawings have survived and are housed at the National Railway Museum, York. In Railways: A History in Drawings, Christopher Valkoinen has selected over 130 examples from the museum's collection that illustrate the innovative history of Britain's railway. Accompanied by lively and insightful commentary, as well as contemporary photographs and posters, featured plans range from Queen Victoria's royal saloon, Stephenson's Rocket, and the Flying Scotsman to the boiler for the famous John Bull--the oldest surviving steam locomotive in the United States--and modern experiments with hovertrains. Perfect for train and engineering enthusiasts and anyone interested in British history, this compendium of drawings gives unparalleled insight into all aspects of the design and operation of the British railway system from the early nineteenth century to the 1970s"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: TWO CENTURIES OF LOCOMOTION

1. Stockton and Darlington Railway Horse Dandy

2. Trevithlck Tram Engine

3. Stockton and Darlington Railway Locomotion

4. Liverpool and Manchester Railway Locomotive Rocket

5. Liverpool and Manchester Railway Planet-type Locomotive

6. Great Western Railway Locomotive North Star

7. London and North Western Railway DX Glass Goods Locomotive

8. `Great Northern Railway `Stirling Single' Class Locomotive

9. The Duke of Sutherland's Locomotive Dunrobin

10. London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Al Class `Terrier' Locomotive

11. Great Western Railway City Class and Atbara Class Locomotives

12. Yorath Lewis' Never-stop Railway Carriage

13. London, Midland and Scottish Railway 4P 4-4-0 Compound Locomotive

14. London and North Eastern Railway Al Class Locomotive

15. Great Western Railway Castle Class Locomotive

16. Southern Railway Lord Nelson Class Locomotive

17. Great Western Railway King Class Locomotive

18. London and North Eastern Railway Wl Class Locomotive No. 10000

19. London, Midland and Scottish Railway Coronation Class Locomotive

20. London and North Eastern Railway A4 Class Locomotive

21. North Eastern Railway Dynamometer Car

22. Southern Railway Merchant Navy Class Locomotive

23. Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway 7F Locomotive

24. London, Midland and Scottish Railway 5MT 4-6-0 Class `Black Five' Locomotive

25. Great Western Railway 5700 Class Pannier Tank Locomotive

26. British Railways EMI Class Locomotive

27. London, Midland and Scottish Railway Main Line Diesel Locomotives

28. British Railways Britannia Class Locomotive

29. British Railways English Electric Type 1 Locomotive

30. British Railways Western Region Type 4 Locomotive

31. British Railways English Electric Type 5 `Deltic' Locomotive

32. British Railways AL3 Class Locomotive

33. British Rail Advanced Passenger Train - Experimental

34. Associated Electrical Industries Tracked Hovercraft

35. British Rail Class 43 InterCity High Speed Train

36. London and North Eastern Railway P2 Class Locomotive

THE RAILWAY PASSENGER

37. Great Western Railway Second-class Carriage

38. Great Western Railway Third-class Carriage

39. Great Northern Railway Third-class Brake

40. London and North Western Railway Royal Saloon

41. London, Chatham and Dover Railway Family Carriage

42. South Eastern and Chatham Railway Tri-Composite Brake Carriage

43. Great Northern Railway First-class Dining Carriage

44. London, Midland and Scottish Railway Proposed Sleeping Compartment

45. Great Northern Railway Omnibus

46. Southern Railway Suburban Third-class Motor Coach

47. Blackpool Corporation Open Single-deck Tramcar

48. London and South Western Railway Hearse Carriage for the Necropolis Railway

49. British Railways Cravens Ltd Diesel Multiple Unit

FREIGHT ON THE RAILWAYS

50. Shildon Works Company Coal Wagon

51. Festiniog Railway Slate Wagon

52. Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Fish Van

53. London and North Western Railway Cattle Wagon

54. Great Western Railway Post Office Van

55. W. H. Smith Newspaper Van

56. London and North Western Railway Dog Carriage

57. Southern Railway Scenery Van

58. Great Western Railway 120 Ton Trolley

RAILWAY WORKERS

59. Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Directors Saloon

60. London, Brighton and South Coast Railway 13 Class Oiling Diagram

61. Great Western Railway Goods Brake Van

62. British Railways Sutton Bridge East Signal Box

63. North Eastern Railway Leemlng Bar Station Master's House

64. Great Western Railway Permanent Way Trolley

65. London and North Western Railway Artificial Leg

66. Saint Peter's Church, Crewe

THE RAILWAY WORKSHOP OF THE WORLD

67. Camden and Amboy Railroad Locomotive John Bull

68. Belgian Government Locomotive

69. Ludwigs-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft Locomotive DerAdler

70. Tsarskoye Selo Railway Locomotive

71. Egyptian Railways River Nile Bridge

72. Darjeeling Railway B Class Locomotive

73. Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company Rack and Pinion Locomotive

74. Imperial Railways of Japan D9 Class Locomotive

75. Nathaniel Grew's Ice Locomotive

76. Peruvian Corporation TSS Ollanta

77. Central African Railway Native Coaches

78. Egyptian State Railways 1,600 HP Locomotive

RAILWAYS AT WAR

79. Railway Operating Division 2-8-0 Locomotive

80. Crewe Tractors

81. Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Continental Ambulance Train Pharmacy Car

82. British Armoured Trains Alice and Norma

83. London Euston Station War Memorial

84. Proposed Air-raid Shelter at Waterloo Station

85. Landing Craft Mechanized (1)

86. Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0 Saddle Tank Locomotive

BUILDING THE RAILWAY

87. British Railways Standard Control Centre for Civil Defence

88. Proposed Route of the Stockton and Darlington Railway

89. Survey of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway

90. Sankey Viaduct

91. Rails and Track

92. Birmingham Curzon Street Station

93. Box Tunnel

94. Smith's 1845 Map of Turnpikes, Railways and Canals

95. High-level Bridge, Newcastle and Gateshead

96. Royal Albert Bridge

97. Derby Works

98. York Station and Tea Rooms

99. Grimsby and Cleethorpes

100. Cardiff General Station

101. Forth Bridge

102. Glasgow Central Station

103. London Marylebone Station

104. Railway Clearing House Map of England and Wales

105. Railway Clearing House Map of London

106. London Waterloo Station

107. Manchester Piccadilly Station

108. The Reshaping of British Railways.

Notes:

"Railway Museum."

"With 300 illustrations."

Includes bibliographical references (page 299) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780500021675

0500021678

OCLC:

1255799677