Frederick Smeeton Williams

The Midland Railway

Its rise and progress. A narrative of modern enterprise

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Midland Railway - Its rise and progress. A narrative of modern enterprise is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1876.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hansebooks
• Nachdruck der Ausgabe von 1876
• Seitenzahl: 720
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 167mm x 49mm
• Gewicht: 1062g
• ISBN-13: 9783337630744
• ISBN-10: 333763074X
• Artikelnr.: 53634886

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The Midland Counties railway
2. The North Midland railway
3. The Birmingham and Derby railway
4. The Birmingham and Bristol railways
5. Leicester to Swannington, Peterborough and Bedford
6. Temporary rise, culmination, and decline of prosperity
7. Extensions to Manchester and London
8. New lines to Sheffield, Bath and Liverpool
9. Settle and Carlisle railway projected
10. Amalgamation with Glasgow and South Westerm proposed
11. Conflict with Great Northern company
12. Lines to Knottingley, Wigan, and Swansea
13. Lines from London to Manchester described
14. Lines from Trent to Barrow-in-Furness described
15. Settle and Carlisle line described
16. Line from Derby to Bath and Bristol described
17. Notts, Leicestershire and western lines described
18. Shareholders, directors, and executive establishments, etc.
Appendix
Index
List of subscribers.