The Railways of Newark-on-Trent
Author: Michael A. Vanns
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780853615323
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Author: Michael A. Vanns
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780853615323
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Published: 1845
Total Pages: 848
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Newark and Passaic Railway Company
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Published: 1889
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLedger of the Newark Railway Company and the Newark and Passaic Railway Company.
Author: Cornelius Brown
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 406
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nikolaus Pevsner
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1979-03-01
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780300096361
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFull of memorable and surprising buildings, Nottingham is a county that rewards close investigation. Great medieval churches are represented by Worksop, Newark and by Southwell, with its exquisite carved 'leaves'. Of its country houses, Wollaton Hall shows Elizabethan architecture at its most fantastic, Bunny Hall the English Baroque at its most bizarre, while Lord Byron's Newstead Abbey incorporates one of the strangest of all monastic ruins. The city of Nottingham, marvellously set between hills, is crowded with sturdy Victorian and Edwardian commercial buildings, and enlivened by a strong local tradition of first-rate Modernist architecture.
Author: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 146
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark Casson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2009-09-10
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 0191570419
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe British railway network was a monument to Victorian private enterprise. Its masterpieces of civil engineering were emulated around the world. But its performance was controversial: praised for promoting a high density of lines, it was also criticised for wasteful duplication of routes. This is the first history of the British railway system written from a modern economic perspective. It uses conterfactual analysis to construct an alternaive network to represent the most efficient alternative rail network that could have been constructed given what was known at the time - the first time this has been done. It reveals how weaknesses in regulation and defects in government policy resulted in enormous inefficiency in the Victorian system that Britain lives with today. British railway companies developed into powerful regional monopolies, which then contested each other's territories. When denied access to existing lines in rival territories, they built duplicate lines instead. Plans for an integrated national system, sponsored by William Gladstone, were blocked by Members of Parliament because of a perceived conflict with the local interests they represented. Each town wanted more railways than its neighbours, and so too many lines were built. The costs of these surplus lines led ultimately to higher fares and freight charges, which impaired the performance of the economy. The book will be the definitive source of reference for those interested in the economic history of the British railway system. It makes use of a major new historical source, deposited railway plans, integrates transport and local history through its regional analysis of the railway system, and provides a comprehensive, classified bibliography.
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Published: 1845
Total Pages: 1138
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Stewart Traill
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Published: 1853
Total Pages: 876
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