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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
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The Victorian Railways Magazine
Author: Locomotives of the Victorian Railway
Author: Anthony DawsonPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445677628
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Anthony Dawson looks at some of the iconic, trailblazing locomotives that helped shape British railway history.
Travelling on the Victorian Railway
Author: Anthony DawsonPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445667754
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
This book hopes to explore the experiences of these pioneer railway travellers, from the first railway stations and railway carriages to the hazards of the journey itself.
Working on the Victorian Railway
Author: Anthony DawsonPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445665239
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
A fascinating insight into what it was like to work on the world's first railways.
Victorian Railways to '62
Author: Leo J. HarriganPublisher: [Melbourne] : Victorian Railways Public Relations and Betterment Board
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Travelling Home, 'Walkabout Magazine' and Mid-Twentieth-Century Australia
Author: Mitchell RollsPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 178308538X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
'Travelling Home' provides a detailed analysis of the contribution that the mid twentieth-century 'Walkabout' magazine made to Australia’s cultural history. Spanning five central decades of the twentieth century (1934-1974), 'Walkabout' was integral to Australia’s sense of itself as a nation. By advocating travel—both vicarious and actual—'Walkabout' encouraged settler Australians to broaden their image of the nation and its place in the Pacific region. In this way, 'Walkabout' explicitly aimed to make its readers feel at home in their country, as well as including a diverse picture of Aboriginal and Pacific cultures. Given its wide availability and distribution, together with its accessible and entertaining content, 'Walkabout' changed how Australia was perceived, and the magazine is recalled with nostalgic fondness by most if not all of its former readers. Drawing on interdisciplinary scholarship, 'Travelling Home' engages with key questions in literary, cultural, and Australian studies about national identity and modernity. The book’s diverse topics demonstrate how 'Walkabout' canvassed subtle and shifting fields of representation; as a result, this analysis produces complex and nuanced readings of Australian literary and cultural history.
Railways and the Victorian Imagination
Author: Michael J. FreemanPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300079708
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Discusses the cultural and social effect that the railway had on nineteenth century society in Great Britain
London & North Eastern Railway Magazine
Author: Dangerous Days on the Victorian Railways
Author: Terry DearyPublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0297870599
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Victorians risked more than just delays when boarding a steam train . . . Victorian inventors certainly didn't lack steam, but while they squabbled over who deserved the title of 'The Father of the Locomotive' and enjoyed their fame and fortune, safety on the rails was not their priority. Brakes were seen as a needless luxury and boilers had an inconvenient tendency to overheat and explode, and in turn, blow up anyone in reach. Often recognised as having revolutionised travel and industrial Britain, Victorian railways were perilous. Disease, accidents and disasters accounted for thousands of deaths and many more injuries. While history has focused on the triumph of engineers, the victims of the Victorian railways had names, lives and families and they deserve to be remembered . . .
The Victorian Historical Magazine
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