The LMS Handbook
The LMS Handbook

Author: David Wragg

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2016-07-04

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 0750969148

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The London Midland & Scottish Railway was the largest of the Big Four railway companies to emerge from the 1923 grouping. It was the only one to operate in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as having two short stretches of line in the Irish Republic. It was also the world’s largest railway shipping operator and owned the greatest number of railway hotels. Mainly a freight railway, it still boasted the best carriages, and the work of chief engineer Sir William Stanier influenced the first locomotive and carriage designs for the nationalised British railways.Packed with facts and figures as well as historical narrative, this extensively illustrated book is a superb reference source that will be of interest to all railway enthusiasts.

Ireland
Ireland

Author: Ronald C. Cox

Publisher: Thomas Telford

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780727726278

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Civil Engineering Heritage: Ireland covers the areas of Ulster in the north through to Munster in the south, Leinster in the east and midlands and Connaught in the west. It describes some of the achievements of such famous names as Alexander Nimmo, William Barrington, Charles Langor and John Killaly and many others. This book is heavily illustrated and contains location maps for each chapter. The items have been selected in order to illustrate some aspect of the historic development of civil engineering skills or in the scope of activity undertaken by the civil engineering profession.

Industrial Ireland 1750-1930
Industrial Ireland 1750-1930

Author: Colin Rynne

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13:

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This book, by a leading authority, is the first comprehensive survey of Ireland's industrial archaeology. Divided into five main sections, the subject is detailed in nineteen chapters, each dealing with a major industrial activity, its technology, and important surviving sites. Fully referenced and illustrated throughout, this will become the standard work on the subject.

One-inch Engraved Maps of the Ordnance Survey from 1847
One-inch Engraved Maps of the Ordnance Survey from 1847

Author: Roger Hellyer

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 746

ISBN-13:

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In choosing the starting date of 1847 for this wide-ranging work, the authors cover the full history of the one-inch engraved map in Scotland and Ireland, while in England and Wales, where publication of the Old Series had been in progress since 1805, Old Series sheets 91 to 110 are included. These latter sheets, north of the 'Preston to Hull line', differ from those publishedearlier, being demonstrably on Cassini's Projection on the origin of Delamere and based on survey at six-inch or larger scales. Their quarter sheets form the basis of the system of regular sheet lines that would be extended south to cover all of England and Wales as the Old Series was superseded by what became known as the New Series. The book charts the long history of the subsequent editions of the engraved map, culminating in the last sheets in Ireland going out of print in 1999.