epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Christian Wolmar [Wolmar, Christian]

EIGHT THE INVASION OF THE RAILWAY By the final quarter of the nineteenth century, railways were well established throughout the world, and the sight of a steam locomotive puffing across ...

epub | | 2013-07-07 | Author:Stephen Halliday

HAMPSTEAD GARDEN SUBURB At the time when Yerkes was planning the construction of the Hampstead Tube to Golders Green,10 agricultural land in the vicinity of the proposed railway began to ...

mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Wolmar, Christian [Wolmar, Christian]

SEVEN THE NEW SIBERIA While the railway may have been conceived by its principal promoters as an imperialist and military enterprise, the impact on Siberia was no less profound. For ...

epub |eng | | Author:Wolmar, Christian [Wolmar, Christian]

SEVEN THE NEW SIBERIA While the railway may have been conceived by its principal promoters as an imperialist and military enterprise, the impact on Siberia was no less profound. For ...

epub |eng | 2003-08-04 | Author:Les Standiford

However, reports of Flagler’s demise were greatly exaggerated, as the saying goes. Even as the Journal account was being published, crews were back at work, rebuilding work camps and replacing ...

epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Oates, Jonathan [Oates, Jonathan]

Yet, as in earlier cases, this type of remark went unheeded. Perhaps the desire for privacy overcame concerns for security. There was controversy over the verdict in this murder case ...

epub |eng | | Author:Christian Wolmar

ELEVEN FIGHTING TOGETHER – RELUCTANTLY The strategic importance of the railways in wartime had been realized as early as 1855 in the Crimean War when the army shipped out 900 ...

epub |eng | | Author:Atterbury, Paul

Tavern Car 1949 The first restaurant car was introduced in 1879 and by 1900 restaurant and bar cars, with supporting kitchen cars, were in regular use all over the British ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:Sam Roberts [ROBERTS, SAM]

PERHAPS THE TERMINAL’S MOST ENDURING EXPORT is about time. Until 1883, virtually every town in the country set local time by the sun. Typically, noon would be regularly signaled so ...