.png){kind=logo}
23%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Railway Hotels
Michael Patterson
€ 21.99
€ 16.83
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Railway Hotels
Paperback. A wonderfully evocative guide to the history and the architecture of Britain's railway station hotels. Num Pages: 96 pages, 180. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBTB; TTVC; WGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 233 x 14. Weight in Grams: 284.
This book celebrates the British railway station hotel. It focuses on those hotels built or acquired by the railway companies themselves rather than on the many railway or station hotels built by local entrepreneurs as speculative ventures up and down the country. It traces the success and failure of some of the early railway hotels but at its heart are those, such as Glasgow's Central Hotel, the Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras or the Royal Victoria Hotel in Sheffield, which survived the first century of Britain's railways to become part of the Hotels Executive on the nationalisation of the ... Read more
This book celebrates the British railway station hotel. It focuses on those hotels built or acquired by the railway companies themselves rather than on the many railway or station hotels built by local entrepreneurs as speculative ventures up and down the country. It traces the success and failure of some of the early railway hotels but at its heart are those, such as Glasgow's Central Hotel, the Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras or the Royal Victoria Hotel in Sheffield, which survived the first century of Britain's railways to become part of the Hotels Executive on the nationalisation of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Chalford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781445654348
SKU
V9781445654348
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Michael Patterson
Michael Patterson is a photographer with a passion for the architecture of Britain's railway hotels. Formerly employed at the British Railways Board headquarters, he now lives in Boston, Lincolnshire.
Reviews for Railway Hotels