Britain's Lost Railways: The Twentieth Century Destruction of Our Finest Railway Architecture
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.69 (517 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1845134508 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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John Minniss is a senior architectural investigator with English Heritage.
However, that is exactly what the supremely presented Britain's Lost Railways achieves in bucketloads highly recommended' Steam Railway magazine 'This excellent book is a feast for the eyes and gives the reader much to ponder' Today's Railways magazine 'Wonderful picturesa testimony to an age of excellence' Best of British 'Fascinating book' Good Book Guide 'A superbly produced account' National Railway Museum Journal 'this is a wonderful bookit reminds us how 150 or so years of railway heritage can be simply swept away' Railway Magazine . 'A nice book, of great historical interest.' Railways Illustrated 'A s
A striking photographic record of how industry cuts and modernization saw Britain's grand terminal stations, soaring viaducts, and cavernous locomotive works wiped from the landscape Filled with fascinating and often rare imagse, this collection documents the remarkably rich architectural heritage of British railways, from quaint country halts to distinguished railway hotels—all of which exists now only in photographs. Who would know that the ugly, low concrete bunker of Birmingham New Street station replaced a handsome glass-roofed train shed, that until the 1960s the stupendously high Belah viaduct swept across a remote Cumbrian valley, that the outlet mall in Swindon selling cheap designer clothing used to be the great GWR locomotive works, or that on little bucolic bran
Peter Durward Harris said Focusing on the architecture. I have plenty of books on Britain's lost railways by Paul Atterbury, Julian Holland and others, so I wondered what an author hitherto unknown to me might have to say that the others hadn't already said. The sub-title sums it up nicely, as this book concerns itself with stations, bridges, viaducts and other structures that once served the railways but which are now only a part of history. Some former station buildings have found other uses as offices, homes, warehouses or whatever, but this. Britain's Victorian Railways: A mindset for greatness Hueg Ess Britain's 19th and early 20th century railways embodied more than iron lines and locomotives. The designs and architecture of such ancialliary structures as depots, terminal edifices, platform flower gardens and signal towers represented a cultural focus on quality and public image -- a self-awareness of proprietary importance and "greatness.". These structures which exemplified 19th century values of ornamaent-with-function have vanished in today's Britain, John Minnis' retrospective on V