Boat Trains: The English Channel & Ocean Liner Specials
Title | Boat Trains: The English Channel & Ocean Liner Specials PDF eBook |
Author | Martyn Pring |
Publisher | Pen and Sword Transport |
Total Pages | 636 |
Release | 2021-01-18 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 1526761939 |
A study of the specialty train, including its history, development, and operation beginning at the end of the nineteenth century. In many ways this title, featuring the evolution of cross-channel boat trains and the many dedicated services responsible for moving international passengers to and from trans-Atlantic steamers, is an extension of luxury railway travel. But that’s not the full story as it encapsulates more than 125 years of independent and organised tourism development. At the end of the nineteenth century, faster and more stable twin-screw vessels replaced cross-channel paddlers resulting in a significant expansion in the numbers of day excursionists and short-stay visitors heading to Belgium, France and the Channel Islands. Continental Europe, as it had done since the end of the Napoleonic Wars beckoned, introducing ideas of modern-day mass tourism. Numerous liners bestriding the globe were British domiciled. Major ports became hives of commercial activity involving moving freight and mail, as well as transporting all manner of travellers. Not only was there intense competition for passenger traffic between the Old and New World and Britain’s imperial interests, greater numbers of well-heeled tourists headed off to warmer winter climes, and also experimented with the novel idea of using ocean steamers as hotels to visit an array of diverse destinations. Cruise tourism and the itinerary had arrived as ‘Ocean Special’ boat trains became essential components of railway and port procedures. Whilst some railway operations were dedicated to emigrant traffic, continental and ocean liner boat trains were also synonymous with the most glamorous travel services ever choreographed by shipping lines and railway companies working closely in tandem. This well illustrated book explores the many functions of boat train travel. “This book should appeal to the rail fan, the ship enthusiast, the connoisseur of travel posters and those interested in the business of transportation. I know of nowhere else one can find so much information on boat train operation in one book. . . . Well worth a read by anyone interested in the interconnectivity of different means of public transportation.” —Charles H. Bogart, Steamship Historical Society of America
Express Trains
Title | Express Trains PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Bryan |
Publisher | Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | 64 |
Release | 2017-05-15 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 1445668793 |
From the Golden Arrow Pullman Service to the Royal Scot and the Flying Scotsman, this book celebrates the most luxurious, fastest and most famous train services from the great age of steam.
Scientific American
Title | Scientific American PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 888 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN |
British Railways in Action
Title | British Railways in Action PDF eBook |
Author | Oswald Stevens Nock |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 298 |
Release | 1956 |
Genre | British Railways |
ISBN |
The Official Guide to the London and South Western Railway
Title | The Official Guide to the London and South Western Railway PDF eBook |
Author | Cassell and Company, ltd |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 454 |
Release | 1894 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
A.B. Jordan - A Southern Editor's View of Europe Between the Wars
Title | A.B. Jordan - A Southern Editor's View of Europe Between the Wars PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Total Pages | 172 |
Release | 2007-08-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0615156479 |
A look at Europe and America after The Great War and the conditions that spawned World War II. Columns written by a small-town southern Editor writing for the folks back home in 1923 and 1924.
Front Line Harbour
Title | Front Line Harbour PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Lane |
Publisher | Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | 388 |
Release | 2011-02-15 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 1445620081 |
The fascinating 400-year history of the Port of Dover depicted in a superb selection of images.