Southern Steam Recollections
Title | Southern Steam Recollections PDF eBook |
Author | Don Benn |
Publisher | Pen and Sword |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2019-11-30 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 1526726904 |
This collection of historic photographs showcases the steam trains of England’s Southern Railway from Devon and Cornwall to Wimbledon and beyond. Train enthusiast Don Benn photographed steam locomotives along England’s Southern Railway from 1960 until steam engines were retired in 1967. In his most prolific years, between 1961 and 1963, Benn captured the last of the classic ex Southern Railway designs, such as the King Arthurs, Lord Nelson and Schools classes. Beloved trains such as the Bournemouth Belle and Lymington Pier boat trains are shown to good effect. The 150 black and white photos presented in this volume, many published here for the first time, span the Southern Region from the east to the ‘withered arm’ in Devon and Cornwall. Special focus is paid to the areas just south and south west of London, including such historic locations as the footpaths at South Croydon and Wimbledon.
Southern Steam Recollections
Title | Southern Steam Recollections PDF eBook |
Author | Don Benn |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Railroads |
ISBN | 9781526726919 |
Railways and Recollections
Title | Railways and Recollections PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Harris |
Publisher | Railways & Recollections |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009-10-24 |
Genre | Nineteen sixty-seven, A.D. |
ISBN | 9781857943368 |
Mention 1967 to any transport enthusiast who hails from the South of England and the reply will almost certainly be 'the year steam ended on the Southern Region'. Monday 10 July, 1967 was indeed a sad day for fans of the steam locomotive, being the first day on the Southern Region without them. This book features the Southern Steam.
From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life
Title | From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life PDF eBook |
Author | A. T. Mahan |
Publisher | CreateSpace |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 2015-03-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781507699164 |
"[...]came out, in my twelfth year, the master of the school I attended gave me a copy; being himself, I presume, one of the rising party adverse to slavery. My father took it out of my hands, and I came to regard it much as I would a bottle labelled "Poison." In consequence I never read it in the days of its vogue, and I have to admit that since then, in mature years, I have not been able to continue it after beginning. The same motives, in great part, led to my being sent to a boarding-school in Maryland, near Hagerstown, which drew its pupils very largely, though not exclusively, from the South. The environment would be upon the whole Southern. I remained there, however, only two years, my father becoming dissatisfied with my progress in mathematics. In 1854, therefore, I[...]".
The Southern Railway: Further Recollections
Title | The Southern Railway: Further Recollections PDF eBook |
Author | C. Pat Cates |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2005-09-14 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 1439629889 |
Following on the heels of Images of Rail: The Southern Railway, this volume takes a more detailed look at a historic railroad that has served the South for over 100 years and continues to serve as the Norfolk Southern Railway. Included in these pages are stories of bravery in war and ingenuity in peace. From 1942 to 1945, the 727th Railway Operating Battalion'sponsored by the Southern Railway'served in North Africa and up the spine of Italy into Germany. The courageous unit received a citation from Gen. George S. Patton for its involvement in the Sicily Campaign.
From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life
Title | From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life PDF eBook |
Author | A. T. Mahan |
Publisher | Good Press |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2019-11-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
"From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life" is the memoir of Anthony T. Mahan about his time in the navy in the 19th century. Mahan's father was a professor at the famous West Point Military Academy, New York in the United States. Through his connection, he entered the Naval Academy, as an "acting midshipman" in 1856. He opines, "Naval officers who began their career in the fifties of the past century, as I did, and who survive till now, as very many do, have been observant, if inconspicuous, witnesses of one of the most rapid and revolutionary changes that naval science and warfare have ever undergone. It has been aptly said that a naval captain who fought the Invincible Armada would have been more at home in the typical war-ship of 1840, than the average captain of 1840 would have been in the advanced types of the American Civil War. The twenty years here chosen for comparison cover the middle period of the century which has but recently expired. Since that time progress has gone on in accelerating ratio; and if the consequent changes have been less radical in kind, they have been more extensive in scope. It is interesting to observe that within the same two decades, in 1854, occurred the formal visit of Commodore Perry to Japan, and the negotiations of the treaty bringing her fairly within the movement of Western civilization; starting her upon the path which has resulted in the most striking illustration yet given of the powers of modern naval instruments, ships and weapons, diligently developed and elaborated during the period that has since elapsed."
Railways and Recollections 1967 Farewell
Title | Railways and Recollections 1967 Farewell PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Harris |
Publisher | Silver Link |
Pages | |
Release | 2007-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781857942972 |
Full title 'Railways & Recollections 1967 Farewell to Southern Steam'.