Railways Around The Fens

Download or read book Railways Around the Fens written by John Jackson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2024-11-15 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial guide to railways around the Fens of eastern England, covering areas of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Lincolnshire.

Download or read book Right Away: The Railways of East Anglia written by Douglas Bourn and published by Bridge Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-20 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railway histories are always popular and the continued regard for heritage railways around the UK highlights the nostalgia the industry evokes. Inevitably many concentrate on the locomotives, lost stations and lines that crisscrossed the region. What has often been missing have been the stories of the individual railway workers and the conditions under which they worked, despite some valuable autobiographies and memoirs of railwaymen who worked in the area. This volume aims to address this gap, bringing to life stories of railway workers within a context of the changing nature of the industry from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.Heavily influenced by his personal and family memories, Douglas Bourn draws on available memoirs, alongside other evidence from railway magazines and local and regional newspapers, to provide the reader with an introduction to the fascinating story of railways in the region. The book takes readers on a historical journey starting with the creation of the first railways in East Anglia, via the growth of a network that promoted and served the agricultural, industrial and tourist development of the towns throughout the three eastern counties, and ending with their almost inevitable decline, as transport needs changed in the post Second World War period.

Download or read book The Fens written by Francis Pryor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. 'Francis Pryor brings the magic of the Fens to life in a deeply personal and utterly enthralling way' TONY ROBINSON. 'Pryor feels the land rather than simply knowing it' GUARDIAN. Inland from the Wash, on England's eastern cost, crisscrossed by substantial rivers and punctuated by soaring church spires, are the low-lying, marshy and mysterious Fens. Formed by marine and freshwater flooding, and historically wealthy owing to the fertility of their soils, the Fens of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire are one of the most distinctive, neglected and extraordinary regions of England. Francis Pryor has the most intimate of connections with this landscape. For some forty years he has dug its soils as a working archaeologist – making ground-breaking discoveries about the nature of prehistoric settlement in the area – and raising sheep in the flower-growing country between Spalding and Wisbech. In The Fens, he counterpoints the history of the Fenland landscape and its transformation – from Bronze age field systems to Iron Age hillforts; from the rise of prosperous towns such as King's Lynn, Ely and Cambridge to the ambitious drainage projects that created the Old and New Bedford Rivers – with the story of his own discovery of it as an archaeologist. Affectionate, richly informative and deftly executed, The Fens weaves together strands of archaeology, history and personal experience into a satisfying narrative portrait of a complex and threatened landscape.

Download or read book A Guide to the Branch Railway from the Eastern Counties Line at Ely to Peterborough: comprising a description of the line ... with ... particulars of the towns with which it is connected written by ELY AND PETERBOROUGH RAILWAY. and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Guide to the Eastern Counties Railway, Cambridge Line from London to Brandon; of the Norfolk Railway, from Brandon by Norwich to Yarmouth; and of the Broxbourne and Hertford Branch; with historical and topographical notices of the Parishes and towns ... Second edition written by and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Eastern Counties Railway Illustrated Guide written by Eastern counties railway and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Narrow Gauge and Industrial Railways written by Brian Reading and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With previously unpublished photographs documenting the period's industrial and mineral railways scene.