Great Northern Railway Gallery
Pen & Sword Transport (Verlag)
978-1-4738-8207-2 (ISBN)
The Great Northern Railway was one of 120 companies that ran trains in Britain during the Victorian and Edwardian period. Formed in 1846, it traded independently for seventy-six years until absorbed into the London & North Eastern Railway on 1 January 1923/. Operating a network of nearly 700 route miles it ran trains between King's Cross, London and York, into the Eastern Counties and the East Midlands, the West Riding of Yorkshire, into Lancashire and even south of the Thames. It developed distinctive characteristics, both in the way it managed its affairs and in the appearance of its trains, stations, signals and signalboxes. Numerous photographs were taken, particularly from the 1890s onwards, by dedicated amateurs attracted to the lineside by the sight of speeding steam locomotives in apple green livery, hauling polished teak carriages. Goods trains and the endless procession of coal trains were not such popular photographic subjects, but by searching out these and images of staff, stations and signalboxes, this book aims to capture something of the spirit of a once-great organisation in the heyday of Britains steam railways.
Michael Vanns was born in Newark-on-Trent in 1956/. After studying history and history of art at Leicester University, and a short spell at Tamworth Castle Museum, Michael joined the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust in 1978/. He remained there until 2009, working on a variety of projects starting with the Elton Collection which examined the Industrial Revolution through contemporary prints, drawings and books. He is the author of Witness to Change: A Record of the Industrial Revolution, an appreciation of the Elton Collection published in 2003/. He was involved in museum education and in a number of large Heritage Lottery funded projects, including the refurbishment of the country's best preserved Victorian decorative tileworks, and the recreation of a small town Victorian street. For both these projects he was responsible for designing the displays and, in the case of the latter, the choice of buildings that were to be reconstructed. During his career he has also written and had published 13 books, all but two on railway subjects. These include a number of works on British railway signalling as well as The Railways of Newark-on-Trent (Oakwood), Rail Centres: Nottingham (Ian Allan) and Severn Valley Railway: a View from the Past (Ian Allan).
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.12.2019 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Railway Gallery |
| Zusatzinfo | 200 black and white photographs and a system map |
| Verlagsort | Barnsley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 216 x 282 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst |
| Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schienenfahrzeuge | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4738-8207-9 / 1473882079 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4738-8207-2 / 9781473882072 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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