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  • The Great Western Railway Volume One Paddington to Bristol

    by Stanley C. Jenkins, Martin Loader ...
    Series Book 1 - The Great Western Railway ...
    Incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1835 and completed just six years later, the Great Western Railway was a stupendous technical achievement. Extending for 118 miles from London to Bristol, this magnificently engineered line spanned Southern England from the Thames to the Bristol Channel, and was regarded as the first link in a chain of railways that would ultimately reach Cornwall, Wales and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Volume One Chester to Holyhead

    by Stanley C. Jenkins, Martin Loader ...
    Series Book 1 - The London, Midland and Scottish Railway
    The Chester & Holyhead Railway was incorporated by an Act of Parliament in 1844, and the promoters were thereby empowered to build an 85-mile line along the North Wales coast, the engineer for the line being Robert Stephenson. The C&HR was, from its inception, intended to form part of a rail link between London and Dublin – the assumption being that such a line would improve the economic position ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

  • Oxford, Bletchley & Bedford Line Through Time

    by Martin Loader, Stanley C. Jenkins ...
    Series series Through Time
    Although, in pre-Grouping days, Oxfordshire was primarily Great Western territory, the county was also served by the Buckinghamshire branch of the London & North Western Railway, which was in many ways a 'foreign' intruder. The line was completed to its western terminus at Oxford Rewley Road in 1851 and provided an alternative route to London, via Islip, Bicester and Swanbourne, as well as a cross ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Volume Two Preston to Carlisle

    by Stanley C. Jenkins, Martin Loader ...
    Series Book 2 - The London, Midland and Scottish Railway
    The obvious success of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway demonstrated that steam railways were a safe, fast and efficient form of transport, and by the end of the 1830s ambitious entrepreneurs were planning a multiplicity of railways up, down and across the land. At first, the new railways were of purely local importance, but the need to connect important cities such as London, Birmingham, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Great Western Railway Volume Two Bristol to Plymouth

    by Stanley C. Jenkins, Martin Loader ...
    Series Book 2 - The Great Western Railway ...
    As authorised in 1835, the Great Western Railway extended from London to Bristol, but from the very earliest days, ambitious promoters were planning a whole series of extensions to destinations such as Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Cornwall and South Wales. These extensions were, in most cases, built by allied or subsidiary companies such as the Bristol & Exeter Railway, which, as its name suggested, ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

  • The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Volume Four Manchester to Leeds

    by Stanley C. Jenkins, Martin Loader ...
    Series Book 4 - The London, Midland and Scottish Railway
    The Manchester & Leeds Railway was sanctioned by Parliament in 1836 as a railway commencing at Manchester and terminating at Normanton, from where trains would reach Leeds via the North Midland Railway. Although Leeds is only 35 miles from Manchester, the hilly nature of the surrounding terrain meant that the company engineers adopted a circuitous route through Rochdale, Todmorden, Hebden Bridge ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Volume Seven From St Pancras to Sheffield

    by Stanley C. Jenkins, Martin Loader ...
    Series Book 7 - The London, Midland and Scottish Railway
    The Midland main line from London St Pancras to the north of England is one of Britain’s most important trunk routes. With its various loops and branches, this major artery of communication links busy centres of population such as Leicester, Derby, Nottingham, Sheffield, Manchester and Leeds. Notwithstanding its obvious importance as a busy main line, the Midland route was built in piecemeal ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Great Western Railway Volume Three Plymouth To Penzance

    by Martin Loader, Stanley C. Jenkins ...
    Series Book 3 - The Great Western Railway ...
    The Cornwall Railway was authorised on 3 August 1846 with the aim of constructing a broad gauge rail link between Plymouth, Truro and Falmouth. After many vicissitudes, the railway was ceremonially opened between Plymouth and Truro on 2 May 1859. Meanwhile, further to the west, an entirely separate undertaking known as the West Cornwall Railway had been sanctioned with powers for the construction ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

  • The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Volume Three Leeds to Carlisle

    by Stanley C. Jenkins, Martin Loader ...
    Series Book 3 - The London, Midland and Scottish Railway
    LEEDS to CARLISLE – The line from Leeds to Carlisle furnished the Midland Railway with an independent route to Scotland, in opposition to the rival London & North Western line. The railway extends for 113 miles, the easternmost sections having been constructed by the Leeds & Bradford and ‘Little’ North Western railways, while the spectacular northwards continuation from Settle to Carlisle was ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

  • The Great Western Railway Volume Four North & West Route

    by Stanley C. Jenkins, Martin Loader ...
    Series Book 4 - The Great Western Railway ...
    The ‘North & West Route’, which, in recent years, has become known as the ‘Welsh Marches Line’, extends from Newport to Chester. Historically, this 137-mile route is an amalgam of three distinct railways: the Shrewsbury & Chester Railway, the Shrewsbury & Hereford Railway and the Newport, Abergavenny & Hereford Railway. All three lines came under Great Western control at a relatively early date, ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

  • The Great Western Railway Volume Six South Wales Main Line

    by Stanley C. Jenkins, Martin Loader ...
    Series Book 6 - The Great Western Railway ...
    The South Wales Railway was promoted in the 1840s with the aim of completing a rail link between England, Wales and Ireland. As such, the proposed railway was seen as ‘a great national undertaking to connect the South of Ireland as well as South Wales and the Metropolis’, with many perceived benefits in terms of mutual trading opportunities and greater political integration. Branch lines would ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Volume Five The London and Birmingham Railway

    by Stanley C. Jenkins, Martin Loader ...
    Series Book 5 - The London, Midland and Scottish Railway
    Authorised on 8 May 1833, the London & Birmingham Railway was one of Britain’s first great trunk lines. Engineered by Robert Stephenson (1803-1859), the L&BR line was regarded at the time of its construction as ‘the Eighth Wonder of the World’. The route was opened in stages; the first section from Euston to Boxmoor was brought into use on 20 June 1837. The route was extended to Tring on 16 ... Read more

    $11.99 USD