British Railway Stinks
Title | British Railway Stinks PDF eBook |
Author | David Smith |
Publisher | Gresley |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2020-02-08 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 1911658700 |
The first railway chemical laboratory was opened in 1864 by the London & North Western Railway at Crewe, and the last ones lost their direct link to the rail industry on their privatisation in 1996. Whatever their expertise, every railway chemist or 'stink' has been asked the same question: “What do you actually do”? That is precisely the question this book attempts to answer. It covers many aspects of the work, from a BR chemist going to San Francisco to blow up a water melon to declaring an empty coal wagon a confined space; from whitewashing a passenger train, in service, in a couple of seconds to questioning, on chemical grounds, the mental state of the chairman of British Rail; from gassing weevils to setting fire to a canal in Derby. British Railway Stinks tells the unusual, astonishing and sometimes downright hilarious story of the railway ‘nuts’ who decided what exactly the ‘wrong kind of leaves’ were.
British Railway Stinks
Title | British Railway Stinks PDF eBook |
Author | David Smith |
Publisher | Mortons Books |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2019-11-22 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN |
The first railway chemical laboratory was opened in 1864 by the London & North Western Railway at Crewe, and the last ones lost their direct link to the rail industry on their privatisation in 1996. Whatever their expertise, every railway chemist or 'stink' has been asked the same question: "What do you actually do"? That is precisely the question this book attempts to answer. It covers many aspects of the work, from a BR chemist going to San Francisco to blow up a water melon to declaring an empty coal wagon a confined space; from whitewashing a passenger train, in service, in a couple of seconds to questioning, on chemical grounds, the mental state of the chairman of British Rail; from gassing weevils to setting fire to a canal in Derby. British Railway Stinks tells the unusual, astonishing and sometimes downright hilarious story of the railway 'nuts' who decided what exactly the 'wrong kind of leaves' were.
British Railway Stinks
Title | British Railway Stinks PDF eBook |
Author | David Smith |
Publisher | Gresley |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2020-02-08 |
Genre | Chemistry |
ISBN | 9781911658269 |
The life and work of Britain's last railway chemists - the men who defined the 'wrong sort of leaves'.
The North British Railway
Title | The North British Railway PDF eBook |
Author | Cuthbert Hamilton Ellis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 1955 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Railway Age
Title | Railway Age PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 962 |
Release | 1951 |
Genre | Railroads |
ISBN |
Scents of China
Title | Scents of China PDF eBook |
Author | Xuelei Huang |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 317 |
Release | 2023-07-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1009207040 |
A pioneering cultural history of smell in China from the High Qing to the Mao period.
Railway Gazette
Title | Railway Gazette PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 832 |
Release | 1951-07 |
Genre | Railroads |
ISBN |