Railway - British Track Since 1804 Dow Andrew Paperback
Railway - British Track Since 1804 Dow Andrew Paperback Never before has a comprehensive history been written of the track used by railways of all gauges, tramways, and cliff railways, in Great…
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Railway - British Track Since 1804 Dow Andrew Paperback
Never before has a comprehensive history been written of the track used by railways of all gauges, tramways, and cliff railways, in Great Britain. Without the track of today, with its laser-guided maintenance machines, the TGV and the Eurostar could not cruise smoothly at 272 feet per second, nor could 2,000-ton freight trains carry a wide range of materials, or suburban railways, over and under the ground, serve our great cities in a way that roads never could. And yet it was the development of track, every bit as much as the development of the locomotive, that has allowed our railways to provide an extraordinarily wide range of services.
Andrew Dows account of the development of track, involving deep research in the papers of professional institutions as well as rare books, company records and personal accounts, paints a vivid picture of development from primitive beginnings to
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