Author: Dixe Wills
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780749577322
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Take an eccentric look at lost Britain through its railway request stops. Perhaps the oddest quirk of Britain's railway network is also one of its least well known: around 150 of the nation's stations are request stops. Take an unassuming station like Shippea Hill in Cambridgeshire--the scene of a fatal accident involving thousands of carrots. Or Talsarnau in Wales, which experienced a tsunami. Tiny Stations is the story of the author's journey from the far west of Cornwall to the far north of Scotland, visiting around 40 of the most interesting of these little used and ill-regarded stations. Often a pen-stroke away from closure--kept alive by political expediency, labyrinthine bureaucracy, or sheer whimsy--these half-abandoned stops afford a fascinating glimpse of a Britain that has all but disappeared from view. There are stations built to serve once thriving industries--copper mines, smelting works, cotton mills, and china clay quarries where the first trains were pulled by horses; stations erected for the sole convenience of stately home and castle owners through whose land the new iron road cut an unwelcome swathe; stations created for Victorian day-tripping attractions; a station built for a cavalry barracks whose last horse has long since bolted; and many more. Dixe Wills will leave you in no doubt that there's more to tiny stations than you might think.
Tiny Stations
Author: Dixe Wills
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780749577322
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Take an eccentric look at lost Britain through its railway request stops. Perhaps the oddest quirk of Britain's railway network is also one of its least well known: around 150 of the nation's stations are request stops. Take an unassuming station like Shippea Hill in Cambridgeshire--the scene of a fatal accident involving thousands of carrots. Or Talsarnau in Wales, which experienced a tsunami. Tiny Stations is the story of the author's journey from the far west of Cornwall to the far north of Scotland, visiting around 40 of the most interesting of these little used and ill-regarded stations. Often a pen-stroke away from closure--kept alive by political expediency, labyrinthine bureaucracy, or sheer whimsy--these half-abandoned stops afford a fascinating glimpse of a Britain that has all but disappeared from view. There are stations built to serve once thriving industries--copper mines, smelting works, cotton mills, and china clay quarries where the first trains were pulled by horses; stations erected for the sole convenience of stately home and castle owners through whose land the new iron road cut an unwelcome swathe; stations created for Victorian day-tripping attractions; a station built for a cavalry barracks whose last horse has long since bolted; and many more. Dixe Wills will leave you in no doubt that there's more to tiny stations than you might think.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780749577322
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Take an eccentric look at lost Britain through its railway request stops. Perhaps the oddest quirk of Britain's railway network is also one of its least well known: around 150 of the nation's stations are request stops. Take an unassuming station like Shippea Hill in Cambridgeshire--the scene of a fatal accident involving thousands of carrots. Or Talsarnau in Wales, which experienced a tsunami. Tiny Stations is the story of the author's journey from the far west of Cornwall to the far north of Scotland, visiting around 40 of the most interesting of these little used and ill-regarded stations. Often a pen-stroke away from closure--kept alive by political expediency, labyrinthine bureaucracy, or sheer whimsy--these half-abandoned stops afford a fascinating glimpse of a Britain that has all but disappeared from view. There are stations built to serve once thriving industries--copper mines, smelting works, cotton mills, and china clay quarries where the first trains were pulled by horses; stations erected for the sole convenience of stately home and castle owners through whose land the new iron road cut an unwelcome swathe; stations created for Victorian day-tripping attractions; a station built for a cavalry barracks whose last horse has long since bolted; and many more. Dixe Wills will leave you in no doubt that there's more to tiny stations than you might think.
Limit Power of Radio Stations
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Radio
Languages : en
Pages : 1664
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Radio
Languages : en
Pages : 1664
Book Description
Limit Power of Radio Stations
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate & Foreign Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1670
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1670
Book Description
Regulation of Community Antenna Television
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Communications and Power
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cable television
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cable television
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Tiny Stations
Author: Dixe Wills
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Select Committee on Small Business
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1758
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1758
Book Description
Petroleum Age
Stations West
Author: Edwin D. Culp
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
"Most of us have felt the fascination of seeing a steam locomotive with smoke drifting back over the line of cars it pulled, as the whole train wound through tall Western mountains. Whether we have actually experienced it or not, and many have, we know such a thing existed and that it is now part of a past that we can't touch again. But in Stations West, Edwin Culp comes close. With four hundred eighty photographs, carefully collected over a period of more than twenty years, he presents an exciting graphic history of Oregon railways from their beginnings to the present. Following the tracks as they were laid, from the Willamette Valley to the Oregon desert, he illustrates, in all its many facets, a heritage which has passed"--
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
"Most of us have felt the fascination of seeing a steam locomotive with smoke drifting back over the line of cars it pulled, as the whole train wound through tall Western mountains. Whether we have actually experienced it or not, and many have, we know such a thing existed and that it is now part of a past that we can't touch again. But in Stations West, Edwin Culp comes close. With four hundred eighty photographs, carefully collected over a period of more than twenty years, he presents an exciting graphic history of Oregon railways from their beginnings to the present. Following the tracks as they were laid, from the Willamette Valley to the Oregon desert, he illustrates, in all its many facets, a heritage which has passed"--
Broadcast License Renewal
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Communications and Power
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Radio
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Radio
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Public service content
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215037244
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Incorporating HCP 314 i-viii, session 2006-07
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215037244
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Incorporating HCP 314 i-viii, session 2006-07