Scottish Railway Icons: Central Belt to the Borders

Chris Hogg, Lynn Patrick (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

96 Seiten

2015
Amberley Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4456-2109-8 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

A look at Scotland’s lost and in some cases still extant railway structures and feats of engineering

‘Railway Mania’ changed Victorian Scotland forever. Fortunes were made and lost as rival railway promoters transformed the landscape with stations, cuttings, tunnels and bridges. In fact Scotland had its own railway system well before a link was established with England. Scottish railways had a ‘flavour’, evident in its engineering and architecture, the more innovative of which attained ‘icon’ status, at a local, national and even international level.

Over the years a number of railways and associated infrastructure proved to be unprofitable or redundant, leading to closure and demolition, principally in the 1960s when cuts recommended by the ‘Beeching Report’ triggered public protest.

Today the railway industry is thriving. New investment has sanctioned the re-instatement of lines at Bathgate, Alloa and the Borders, upgrades at Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh’s Waverley and Haymarket stations, electrification of the Cumbernauld and Coatbridge lines and construction of the controversial Edinburgh tramway, all signal an ongoing commitment to rail travel.

Scottish Railway Icons: Central Belt to the Borders documents today’s railway and that of an earlier age, some of which has been repurposed abandoned or demolished, but primarily it’s a celebration of the regions railway its people, history and legacy.

Chris Hogg was the Curator of Film Photography and Sound at the National Railway Museum for 35 years. His remit was to document with still and moving images the railways of the United Kingdom. He lives in York. Lynn was the photographer at the National Railway Museum for more than twenty-five years documenting the railways of the UK and Europe prior to her going freelance in 2012.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.10.2015
Reihe/Serie	Scottish Railway Icons
Zusatzinfo	200 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Chalford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	165 x 234 mm
Gewicht	302 g
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schienenfahrzeuge
ISBN-10	1-4456-2109-6 / 1445621096
ISBN-13	978-1-4456-2109-8 / 9781445621098
Zustand	Neuware