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The Worst Street in London
Halfway up Commercial Street, one block away from Spitalfields Market, lies an anonymous service road. But Dorset Street was once the most notorious thoroughfare in the capital, a hotbed of crime and depravity. This is its story.
Railway Blunders
Analysing 200 years of British rail history, Adrian Vaughan looks at some of the great blunders in railway engineering, from the earliest days of the railway age, where politics rather than engineering determined much of the country's railway development, to the 21st century where, arguably the same is true.
Furness Railway
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Euston - A history and modelling the 1875 station
Euston Station was the first intercity railway gateway for London and with the famed Doric Arch became a major landmark of that city. Initially built for the London and Birmingham Railway, it became the terminus of the LNWR Premier Line, then HQ of the London Midland and Scottish. The controversial 1960’s demolition of the site stimulated the building preservation movement. Latterly we have a challenging on / off love affair with the area through the High Speed Two project. This book contains both a background history of Euston and its environs, combined with a modellers review of building a ‘OO’ gauge mid Victorian station complex. A core model of the old station was kindly donated to...
Winter Games Pitches
Covering the establishment and care of grass for a wide variety of sports such as association football, rugby, hockey, lacrosse, the Gaelic games, American football and including facilities such as polo grounds, this work provides a comprehensive treatment of the subject. Divided into nine sections, a detailed introduction to the sports to be catered for is followed by sections on: pitch construction and design; sands for construction and top dressing; frost protection and soil warming; grasses for winter pitches; maintenance machinery; fertilizers for pitches; weeds, pests and diseases; and end of season renovation.
Transport Yearbook 2006
This is a comprehensive reference to sources of transport statistics available in Britain, including a complete directory of all international publications and sources; summaries of the major policy issues; and details of all government departments and agencies working in this field. It incorporates Sources of transport statistics, compiled by the Transport Statistics Users Group (TSUG)
Manchester to Leeds
The lines covered in this volume are predominantly those that were operated by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, and so routes like the main line from Manchester to Leeds via Summit tunnel and its associated branches also feature.
