Underground to Everywhere by Stephen Halliday You'll laugh, you'll cry, and you'll learn the value of wearing red flannelette knickers.
His biographies of the Stephenson's and Brunel are highly recommended too. This is the story of how he helped save one of The Great Little Railways of Wales, the Tal-Y-Llyn. Rolt was a fascinating figure, who ended up being the reluctant father of both the canal restoration and steam preservation movements. You will never feel the same about going through tunnels again. A classic of High Victorian comedy, sadly out of print, but fairly easy to pick up.
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The Railway Traveller's Handy Book by Anonįirst published in 1862, and republished in 1971, this was the first ever guide to how to travel by train. From London to Saigon, and back via the Trans-Siberian, he manages to capture both the excitement and the tedium of train travel. This is the best of Theroux's several railway travel books. The critics piled up the superlatives, and it deserves them all. Not just the best book on Victorian railways, but one of the best books about Victorian Britain. Buried amongst a great deal of sensible technical advice on the problems of running an OO gauge model layout in a suburban garden is an admittedly unintentionally hilarious account of family life in the 50s and 60s. Virtually unobtainable but, if you keep your eyes open in charity shops, you might get lucky. Chronicles of a Garden Railway by WAD Strickland Funny and tender by turns, it ends up being a great book about men and what makes them tick. This is one of the few books that attempts to explain the motivation of that much maligned breed, the trainspotter. Martin's dark and funny novel brilliantly encapsulates the atmosphere of the Edwardian railway, and the pride and skill of the men who worked it, all wrapped up in a compelling plot. Some of these stations lie abandoned across the region, or are awaiting repurposing, such as the one in Windsor to become a transportation museum. So many, though, are gone, and with them, the vision of the opening of the frontier, the expansion of our reach across the country, and of a life that has moved past our memories of a time past. And that’s too bad.Everyone knows that rail privatisation was a botched-up nonsense, but no one explains why better than Wolmar. It was the Lackawanna stations that often were the most beautiful of the structures - the one in Scranton has been converted into a grand hotel. As the railroad lines closed or merged (the Erie joined the Lackawanna in 1960 before both closing in the late-1960's), the stations often closed or were repurposed. The one in Vestal was moved and is now a museum (and about to relocate close to its original location). The one in Whitney Point has become used for various businesses.
The opening of the first railroad in this region made the area very appealing to other burgeoning railroad lines.įrom 1848 to 1869, the Binghamton area was witness to the opening of multiple railroads that linked the area to the south, north, east and west. By just after the end of the Civil War, the Binghamton region had developed as a transportation hub - moving massive amounts of goods in and out of the area, as well as providing passenger service to an ever-increasing range across the country.Īlong those railroad lines, railroad stations would be constructed at each of the stops along that route. From that first station in 1848 until the earliest years of the 1900's, station buildings were built in places such as Vestal, Whitney Point, Lisle, Chenango Forks, Windsor, Johnson City (Lestershire at that time) and Endicott. It was simple wooden building that closely resembled would be thought of as a shack. Binghamton, however, was now connected by a railroad line that by 1851 stretched from Dunkirk, New York, in the west to the Hudson River.
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