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Lifestyle, Sport & LeisureOctober 2022Derailed
How to fix Britain's broken railways
by Tom Haines-Doran, Julie Froud
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Lifestyle, Sport & LeisureOctober 2022Derailed
How to fix Britain's broken railways
by Tom Haines-Doran, Julie Froud
Few would disagree that Britain's railways are broken and have been for a long time. This insightful new book calls for a radical rethink of how we view the railways and explains the problems we face and how to fix them. Haines-Doran argues that the railways should be seen as a social good and an indispensable feature of the national economy. We would then avoid the incessant debates on whether they are a business failure and whether they can be anything other than loss-making. The book gives an overview of the main questions that rail users frequently ask: why don't trains run on time? Why are fares so expensive? Why are there so many strikes? Haines-Doran offers clear explanation of the roots of these problems and how the system can be fixed so it can be a true service to us all.
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Travel & TransportDecember 2020Railway Modernity in China
The Temporal-Spatial Experience and the Cultural Imagination of Trains, 19840-1937
by Li Siyi
The railway invention propelled the rediscovery of the world! For a long time, railways and trains, as the most dazzling products of modern technological civilization, have naturally been regarded as symbols of modernity. The railway was born to rediscover the world. It has changed the way we feel time and space and reshaped our grasp of the world. It plays a valuable role in the social economy and penetrates the field of history and culture. Chronically-structured, RAILWAY MODERNITY IN CHINA, traces the naming story of the railway from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China: the visuals and images in the Dianshizhai Pictorial (點石齋畫報), the debate between the Wusong Railway (吳淞鐵路)and the Westernization Movement (洋務運動), Sun Yat-sen’s (孫中山) railway planning and national construction, the six different aspects of railway travel and literary writing during the Republic of China, the railway experience and literary expression of modern subjects and strangers, under the theme of time and space, cultural imagination relating to railways and trains, rethinking many issues of modernity. Li Siyi used the railway as a method, an opportunity, and a key to understanding Chinese modernity. Li explores the railway adaptation after its entrance into China from 1840 to 1937, tracing its impact from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China and how the experience connects with the modern imagination. When the railway becomes the intermediary between man and the world, how do "China" and "modern Chinese" use language cognition, visual perception, and event discourse to be parallel and indispensable in such a "human-railway-world." Smoke takes shape in illustrating this division. The story about the railway is endless. There is a cave with culture and thought behind it, which is worthy of in-depth study. Because whether it is railways or modernity, we don't know them in a self-righteous way.
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Travel & TransportA Brief History of Transport (Series)
Trains
by David West and Oliver West
Have you ever wondered about the Golden Age of aviation? Or how we built railroads across continents? Have you wondered how we moved from steam trains to high-speed electric trains? Or how feats in engineering allowed us to create a supersonic plane that travelled faster than the speed of sound? If so, allow your readers to delve into our brilliant 4-title series - Cars, Planes, Trains and Ships - to learn about the dynamic history of how technology and innovation have changed the way that we travel.
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Prose: non-fictionThe Great Persuader
The Biography of Collis P. Huntington
by David Lavender
ollis Huntington Holladay of San Marino, California, made available documents and letters written by his great uncle. They are cited in the Notes as 'Holladay Collection'. The letters sent by Collis Huntington to his brother Solon during the gold-rush period and the subsequent years in Sacramento, form a significant part of the Holladay collection and were particularly valuable in allowing a reconstruction of a hitherto little known period of Collis' life. This book includes lavish and fascinating detail, emphasising in particular the complex, often illegal, financial and political wirepulling that generally won the day for Huntington.
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Trains & railways: general interestMay 2006State and Federal Standards for Mobile-Source Emissions
by Committee on State Practices in Setting Mobile Source Emissions Standards, National Research Council
Emissions from mobile sources contribute significantly to air pollution in the United States. Such sources include cars and light- and heavy-duty trucks; diesel-powered cranes, bulldozers, and tractors; and equipment such as lawnmowers that run on small gasoline engines. The role of state versus federal government in establishing mobile-source emissions standards is an important environmental management issue. With this in mind, Congress called on EPA to arrange an independent study of the practices and procedures by which California develops separate emissions standards from the federal government and other states choose to adopt the California standards. The report provides an assessment of the scientific and technical procedures used by states to develop or adopt different emissions standards and a comparison of those policies and practices with those used by EPA. It also considers the impacts of state emissions standards on various factors including compliance costs and emissions. The report concludes that, despite the substantial progress in reducing emissions from mobile sources nationwide, more needs to be done to attain federal air-quality standards in many parts of the country. Additionally, California should continue its pioneering role in setting emissions standards for cars, trucks, and off-road equipment.
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Lifestyle, Sport & LeisureSeptember 2014Steam Trains
The Magnificent History of Britain's Locomotives from Stephenson's Rocket to BR's Evening Star
by Colin Maggs
Most people are under a misapprehension: the Rocket was not the first steam engine. Quite a few were built before it, but Stephenson’s engine was the first successful steam locomotive. Colin Maggs tells the story of the steam engine from pre-Rocket days to British Railways building the Evening Star, the last main-line locomotive, through to the preservation movement and the new-build locomotives of extinct classes such as the Tornado. This is also the story of the rolling stock, the ‘train’. The early first-class coaches were based on a stagecoach design, while some second-class coaches had no glass in the windows and passengers wore fine-gauge goggles to avoid cinders in their eyes. Third-class coaches were merely open trucks – after all, why not travel in the open as passengers had done on the outside of a stagecoach? In this comprehensive history, Colin Maggs, one of the country’s foremost railway historians, tells of other, perhaps less well-known aspects of the history of steam in Great Britain. The first railway lines, the activities of the early railway companies, the design and manufacture of faster and faster engines and the lives of the men and women who drove the industry. These, and other fascinating stories from the age of steam, are all revealed in this accessible book illustrated with over 150 photographs and period ephemera, many in colour.
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Trains & railways: general interestLittle Book of London Underground
by Robin Bextor
What other institution could more readily come to stand for modern London than the Underground system? In this Little Book meet the men who created this amazing resource, the pioneers who envisaged a joined up city and learn about the failures and successes and the way the Tube has become a vital part of our lives.
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Trains & railways: general interestLittle Book of Beeching
by Robin Jones
Described as the most hated civil servant in Britain it was half a century ago that Dr Richard Beeching was appointed as chairman of British Railways with one key directive - to cut the soaring losses.
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Lifestyle, Sport & LeisureJuly 2023North Western Railway of India
by Alon Siton
The North Western Railway of India (NWR) was one of British India's largest railway systems. Created out of the merger of several local Indian lines, the NWR was gradually extended and charged with the double duty of running civilian passenger trains between Delhi and the rest of the country, as well as implementing Britain's own strategic plans beyond the border – from the North Western Frontier to distant Afghanistan. In 1947, following the end of the British rule in the Indian subcontinent, the NWR was divided between the newly formed independent states of India and Pakistan. Using rare and previously unpublished photos, maps and illustrations, this book tells the story of one of the most fascinating railways of the Indian Empire.
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Lifestyle, Sport & LeisureJuly 2023The Pontop & South Shields Railway
by Rob Langham
After the financial failure of the Stanhope & Tyne Railroad Company in 1841, a new company was set up to operate the coal-carrying eastern half of the railway that ran from the area around Consett down to South Shields. This new company, the Pontop & South Shields Railway, continued to enjoy success in moving coal from pits in north-west Durham to the shipping point on the River Tyne. Through changes of ownership and modifications to the route, the line continued in use up until the early 1980s, and is perhaps best known for the heavy trains of iron ore climbing up the steep gradients to Consett from Tyne Dock, hauled by large steam locomotives and, later, diesel locomotives. Telling the history of this line as it underwent changes, together with stories of runaways and other incidents, this book includes many photographs of this fascinating railway.
