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Kniha Steam Trains Colin G Maggs

Steam Trains

The Magnificent History of Britain's Locomotives from Stephenson's Rocket to BR's Evening Star

Autor: Colin G Maggs
Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Brožovaná
Vydavatel: Amberley Publishing
Dostupnost: Očekávaný dotisk
Termín neznámý
351 Kč
Most people are under a misapprehension: the Rocket was not the first steam engine. Quite a few were...

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Autor
Colin G Maggs
Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydáno
2015
Stránek
272
EAN
9781445650999
ISBN
1445650991
Enbook ID
09281967
Vydavatel
Amberley Publishing
Hmotnost
392
Rozměry
234 x 159 x 25

Kompletní popis

Most people are under a misapprehension: the Rocket was not the first steam engine. Quite a few were built before it, but Stephenson's engine was the first successful steam locomotive. Colin Maggs tells the story of the steam engine from pre-Rocket days to British Railways building the Evening Star, the last main-line locomotive, through to the preservation movement and the new-build locomotives of extinct classes such as the Tornado. This is also the story of the rolling stock, the 'train'. The early first-class coaches were based on a stagecoach design, while some second-class coaches had no glass in the windows and passengers wore fine-gauge goggles to avoid cinders in their eyes. Third-class coaches were merely open trucks - after all, why not travel in the open as passengers had done on the outside of a stagecoach? In this comprehensive history, Colin Maggs, one of the country's foremost railway historians, tells of other, perhaps less well-known aspects of the history of steam in Great Britain. The first railway lines, the activities of the early railway companies, the design and manufacture of faster and faster engines and the lives of the men and women who drove the industry. These, and other fascinating stories from the age of steam, are all revealed in this accessible book illustrated with over 150 photographs and period ephemera, many in colour.

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