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Liverpool´s Railways Through Time
Hugh Hollinghurst
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Description for Liverpool´s Railways Through Time
Paperback. This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Liverpool's railways have changed and developed over the last century. Num Pages: 96 pages, 180. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; WGF; WQP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 165 x 10. Weight in Grams: 300.
Liverpool has many railway `firsts' in the world: an inter-city service, an electrified overhead railway, a large-scale marshalling yard, a deep-level suburban tunnel and one under a tidal estuary. In Britain it can boast of other firsts: an escalator in a railway station, conversion from steam to electricity and the first main-line electrification, a widely reported death in a railway accident, a proper train shed constructed of iron and glass and automatic signalling and electric signal lights. Some of these are still working well 185 years later, still fit for purpose, like the railways to Manchester ... Read more
Liverpool has many railway `firsts' in the world: an inter-city service, an electrified overhead railway, a large-scale marshalling yard, a deep-level suburban tunnel and one under a tidal estuary. In Britain it can boast of other firsts: an escalator in a railway station, conversion from steam to electricity and the first main-line electrification, a widely reported death in a railway accident, a proper train shed constructed of iron and glass and automatic signalling and electric signal lights. Some of these are still working well 185 years later, still fit for purpose, like the railways to Manchester ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Chalford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781445644967
SKU
V9781445644967
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-27
About Hugh Hollinghurst
Hugh Hollinghurst is the chairman of the Crosby and District Historical Society, and is an expert on the Liverpool Overhead Railway, giving regular talks on the subject. He has written many previous books on local history for Amberley Publishing.
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