Southern Steam, 1923-1939
Author: John Leslie Smith
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780851532448
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Author: John Leslie Smith
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780851532448
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Gould
Publisher:
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 100
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Wragg
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2017-08-01
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 0750985062
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Southern Railway may not have been the most glamorous of the 'Big Four' companies that emerged from the grouping of 1923, but it was the great innovator. In the 1930s the Southern pioneered the first main-line electrification and created the largest electrified suburban railway network in the world. It was also one of the few to offer regular departures and the first to run true international services, introducing the 'Night Ferry' through-trains from London to Paris using special ferries. Forming part of a series, along with The GWR Handbook, The LMS Handbook and The LNER Handbook, this new edition provides an authoritative and highly detailed reference of information about the Southern Railway.
Author: Peter Steer
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
Published: 2022-05-05
Total Pages: 703
ISBN-13: 1526778424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Southern Railway between 1923 and 1939 was the only British company to carry out a sustained programme of electrification which became known as the Southern Electric. Unlike many recent projects, each incremental step was completed on time and within budget. This successful project was more impressive as it was achieved during a period of economic stagnation (including the ‘great depression’) and despite government disapproval of the method of electrification. The driving force behind this endeavor was the railway’s general manager, Sir Herbert Walker, but at his side was his electrical engineer, Alfred Raworth, the man one journalist described as an ‘electrification genius’. Alfred Raworth’s career began working with his father the eminent consulting engineer and entrepreneur, John Smith Raworth. Following the collapse of his father’s business Alfred joined the railway industry and devised an ambitious and innovative electrification design. This was discarded when the railways of southern England were ‘grouped’ into the Southern Railway after which he took responsibility for the implementation of the electrification schemes. With Walker’s retirement in 1937, those who continued to support steam traction took the policy lead. A marginalised Raworth retired but was later to witness the fruition of many of his discarded ideas.
Author: David Gould
Publisher:
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 100
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Wragg
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Published: 2011-12-13
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 178303145X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew modes of travel have the enduring appeal of steam railways. Today preserved lines, locomotives and rolling stock attract not just expert enthusiasts but more casual visitors who are keen to savor the distinctive atmosphere of a lost era in transport history. Yet these relics are but one aspect of the long story of steam, for they cannot reveal the human side of working life on the railways the experience of the railwaymen who operated the machinery of the steam age. It is this, the human aspect of railway history that David Wragg has chosen as the subject of this landmark book. He has selected extracts from the personal reminiscences of railway men to create an all-round portrait of the industry in its prime. He records their memories, anecdotes and insights, and he brings the routines of the steam railway vividly back to life.
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 2708
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Author: Donovan L. Hofsommer
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9781603441278
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDon Hofsommer chronicles the twentieth-century history of a transportation giant. Here is a story of divestiture and merger, Sunset Route, and Prosperity Special. " . . . a treasure house of information about the Southern Pacific Company . . . . This book is a joy to read."--Richard C. Overton, from the Foreword
Author: Richard E. Prince
Publisher: Green River, Wyo. : [s.n.]
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 210
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccount of a transportation empire.