Railways and Industries in North East Wales and Deeside
Seiten
2021
Pen & Sword Transport (Verlag)
9781526753779 (ISBN)
Pen & Sword Transport (Verlag)
9781526753779 (ISBN)
First time such a variety of railways and industries have been described and illustrated in one book.
Rob Shorland-Ball's researches for this book, and several visits, convinced him that he was putting together a jigsaw of facts. No previously published account of the area have brought together these stories of iron & steel making, limestone quarrying, coal mining, terra cotta, lead mining, and the railway systems they all needed to move their products to market.
There were narrow and standard gauge railways -80 miles of tracks in the Shotton Steel Works; industrial sites like Brymbo Iron and Steel Works; and since 2003 the Airbus factory which makes 100ft long wings for Airbus 380s that are too long to be moved by rail!
A jigsaw indeed and this books puts together the pieces.
Rob Shorland-Ball's researches for this book, and several visits, convinced him that he was putting together a jigsaw of facts. No previously published account of the area have brought together these stories of iron & steel making, limestone quarrying, coal mining, terra cotta, lead mining, and the railway systems they all needed to move their products to market.
There were narrow and standard gauge railways -80 miles of tracks in the Shotton Steel Works; industrial sites like Brymbo Iron and Steel Works; and since 2003 the Airbus factory which makes 100ft long wings for Airbus 380s that are too long to be moved by rail!
A jigsaw indeed and this books puts together the pieces.
Rob Shorland Ball -former Geography and English teacher, deputy head of the National Railway Museum, railways and industrial heritage consultant -uses his extensive experience to write this book about railways and industries in the north eastern Welsh / English borderlands. Rob has written several railway books for P&S and is always interested in making connections -for instance between the geography of an area, the shape of railway networks, settlements in that area. And people stories too. Why was a railway built? Why did many English entrepreneurs come to NE Wales to make fortunes?
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.01.2022 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 200 colour & black and white illustrations, maps & track diagrams |
| Verlagsort | Barnsley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 216 x 282 mm |
| Themenwelt | Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schienenfahrzeuge |
| ISBN-13 | 9781526753779 / 9781526753779 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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