Tiny Stations

Download or read book Tiny Stations written by Dixe Wills and published by . This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Limit Power of Radio Stations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate & Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 1670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Limit Power of Radio Stations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 1664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Activities of Regulatory and Enforcement Agencies Relating to Small Business written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations written by Simon Jenkins and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the architectural gems that are Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations in this Sunday Times top 10 bestseller 'This is a cracker . . . a beautiful book' Chris Evans It is the scene for our hopeful beginnings and our intended ends, and the timeless experiences of coming and going, meeting, greeting and parting. It is an institution with its own rituals and priests, and a long-neglected aspect of Britain's architecture. And yet so little do we look at the railway station. Simon Jenkins has travelled the length and breadth of Great Britain, from Waterloo to Wemyss Bay, Betws-y-Coed to Beverley, to select his hundred best railway stations. Blending his usual insight and authority with his personal reflections and experiences - including his founding the Railway Heritage Trust - the foremost expert on our national heritage deftly reveals the history, geography, design and significance of each of these glories. Beautifully illustrated with colour photographs throughout, this joyous exploration of our social history shows the station's role in the national imagination; champions the engineers, architects and rival companies that made them possible; and tells the story behind the triumphs and follies of these very British creations. These are the marvellous, often undersung places that link our nation, celebrated like never before. 'However spectacular the book's photographs, it's the author's prowess as a phrase-maker that keeps you turning the pages' The Times 'An uplifting exploration of our social history' Guardian

Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Select Committee on Small Business written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Status of UHF and Multiple Ownership of TV Stations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 1214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: