The Last Years of the Somerset and Dorset

Engineering & Transportation

MAGGS, Colin G.

Transportation

Ian Allan

Branch Lines of Devon: Plymouth, West and North Devon (Transport/Railway)

Sutton Publishing+ltd

Branch Lines of Devon: Exeter and South, Central and East Devon (Transport/Railway)

A description of the branch lines of Dorset, which varied from lightly-built rural railways to branches carrying main line express locomotives. Includes anecdotes about branch life and people.

Branch Lines of Dorset

History

Alan Sutton Publishing, Ltd.

Who won in a race between a train and a pigeon? How can you warn bats to leave a railway tunnel? Before the era of the car, which railway company carried the most prisoners? Colin G. Maggs has collected all of these answers - and more! - in Amazing and Curious Railway Tales, a compendium of stories, curiosities and little-known facts about Britain's railways.

Amazing and Curious Railway Tales

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

The History Press

Product Description Do you remember collecting birds’ eggs and cigarette cards? Or the first appearances of wrapped sweets like Mars and Milky Way?The 1930s was a time of great progress, as engines took over from horse power, and electric light from gas and oil. Ordinary families aspired to own their own semi-detached house with a garage, and heated it with coal fires; smog was ever prevalent In cities. Some children were still sewn into their winter clothes, or went to school barefoot. This was a time of home cooking, and holidays were day trips, often by Charabanc. Families kept chickens and rabbits, children played with catapults and bows and arrows. And in the background, change was everywhere, with the Mallard speed record, the launch of the Queen Mary, the abdication of the King, and the increasing spectre of the impending Second World War. This delightfully nostalgic book will take you right back to a different age, remembering what life was like for those growing up in the 1930s. About the Author Colin G. Maggs has had 104 books published to date, mostly on railway history. In 1993 HM the Queen awarded him an MBE for services to railway history. He has written countless railway newspaper and magazine articles, given broadcasts on TV and radio, talks to societies, and lectured on railway history at the University of Bath. He lives in Bath.

A 1930s Childhood

Reference

The Story of the Big Four Railway Companies

Business & Money

Industries

Highbridge in Its Heyday (Locomotion Press)

The Oakwood Press and Oakwood Video Library

The Mangotsfield to Bath Line: Including the Story of Green Park Station (Locomotion Papers)

The Oakwood Press

Culm Valley Light Railway: Tiverton Junction to Hemyock (Locomotion Papers)

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