In and Out of Paddington
The Story of a Great Railway Station
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2018
Fonthill Media Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78155-710-5 (ISBN)
Fonthill Media Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78155-710-5 (ISBN)
Paddington is one of the great railway stations. Temporary buildings were opened in 1838 as the London terminus. The present station was designed and built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel who considered that nothing less than a grand terminus to the GWR would be acceptable. The first service from the new station departed on 16 January 1854.
Paddington is one of London's-indeed the world's-great railway stations. Designed basically by Brunel, although others contributed, it has served its intended purpose of providing a starting point and a culmination of countless journeys between the capital, the West Country, the Midlands, Merseyside, Wales and beyond, to Ireland and America, for over 180 years. In a highly illustrated book we look at the trains, steam diesel and electric, which have served it, the people who have passed through, and have worked there. We also consider its surroundings, which were once the fields belonging to Westbourne Manor House, where its locomotive depot would be built. A little further out was Old Oak Common, now deep in inner suburbia, the GWRs largest depot, still the home of the High Speed Trains and used as a depot for the Cross Rail construction. The approach to Paddington involved negotiating a fascinating complex of lines, serving both goods and passenger traffic, signal boxes and semaphore signals galore. To this day it is the only main line London station served by surface Underground trains.
Paddington is one of London's-indeed the world's-great railway stations. Designed basically by Brunel, although others contributed, it has served its intended purpose of providing a starting point and a culmination of countless journeys between the capital, the West Country, the Midlands, Merseyside, Wales and beyond, to Ireland and America, for over 180 years. In a highly illustrated book we look at the trains, steam diesel and electric, which have served it, the people who have passed through, and have worked there. We also consider its surroundings, which were once the fields belonging to Westbourne Manor House, where its locomotive depot would be built. A little further out was Old Oak Common, now deep in inner suburbia, the GWRs largest depot, still the home of the High Speed Trains and used as a depot for the Cross Rail construction. The approach to Paddington involved negotiating a fascinating complex of lines, serving both goods and passenger traffic, signal boxes and semaphore signals galore. To this day it is the only main line London station served by surface Underground trains.
Michael Baker has been travelling in and out of Paddington all of his life. For 31 years he edited the `Echo', the magazine of the Great Western Society, and today he edits `North Star', the magazine of STEAM, the museum set in the old GWR works at Swindon. He has had over 50 books published on all sorts of subjects, mostly transport, on people and places, hundreds of articles, for the National Trust, for the `Times Educational Supplement' and many other publications. He married Maeve, in Dublin, in 1968, and has three sons and four grandchildren.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.08.2018 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 116 colour and 101 black and white photographs |
| Verlagsort | Toadsmoor Road |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 172 x 248 mm |
| Gewicht | 448 g |
| Themenwelt | Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schienenfahrzeuge |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78155-710-1 / 1781557101 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78155-710-5 / 9781781557105 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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