Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    A Century of Railway Travel
    A Century of Railway Travel
    A Century of Railway Travel
    Ebook110 pages42 minutes

    A Century of Railway Travel

    By Paul Atterbury

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    From the Edwardian golden age of steam to the present, the railway has captured the hearts and imaginations of the British people like no other mode of travel. In wartime and peace, along major routes and minor, steam, diesel and electric trains have carried commuters to work, families to holiday destinations and provided the means to myriad other adventures – the train a constant presence in an ever-changing way of life. A Century of Railway Travel presents one hundred years of the British passenger's story, using striking full-page imagery with commentary from bestselling author Paul Atterbury. From the open platforms of provincial stations before the First World War to the modern throngs at Waterloo on Derby Day, and from compartments that separated rich from poor and male from female, to the rise to dominance of modern standard class, this book depicts the rich tapestry of progress and heritage that has been the last century of British train travel. The coloured card ticket in your hand, the rough feel of the upholstered seats, and the call of the whistle, the scenery begins to move across the carriage windows of one of Britain's great steam-trains: with full-page illustrations and text alive with insight and nostalgia, this is a passenger's history of train travel in the last century.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateApr 10, 2014
    ISBN9780747814917
    A Century of Railway Travel
    Author

    Paul Atterbury

    Paul Atterbury is the author of numerous books on railway topics including Branch Line Britain and Along Lost Lines and has appeared regularly as an expert on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow.

    Read more from Paul Atterbury

    Related to A Century of Railway Travel

    Titles in the series (4)

    View More
    View More

    Related ebooks

    Technology & Engineering For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      A-z Of Steam Vehicles

      Feb 24, 2023

      A-z Of Steam Vehicles
      6 min read

    • Article

      1966 Bsa Lightning

      Nov 25, 2019

      1966 Bsa Lightning
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Ideas Man

      Sep 1, 2021

      The Ideas Man
      10 min read

    • Article

      Northwich ICI traffic

      Apr 16, 2018

      Northwich ICI traffic
      5 min read

    • Article

      Book Review

      Nov 3, 2021

      Second edition Author: Barry M. Jones Published by: Barry M. Jones, Unit 2, Rustic Crafts Workshop, Bixley Lane, Beckley, Rye, East Sussex TN3 6TH (First published by Panther Publishing Ltd.) Email: bjrustic@aol.com www.brenelltape.co.uk Softback,1

      2 min read

    • Article

      Autumn Start For Class 730/0s On London Euston Diagrams

      Jul 18, 2023

      CLASS 730/0 Aventra electric multiple units will enter traffic from the autumn, although they will initially begin operating on the southern section of the West Coast Main Line rather than in the West Midlands where they were ordered for. The three-c

      4 min read

    • Article

      Superlative Era

      Feb 11, 2022

      Superlative Era
      5 min read

    • Article

      Sojourns on The Southern

      Jan 19, 2023

      Sojourns on The Southern
      25 min read

    • Article

      Top 10 peak District Villages

      Oct 19, 2023

      Top 10 peak District Villages
      8 min read

    • Article

      Bsa M20

      Nov 26, 2018

      Bsa M20
      9 min read

    • Article

      Looking Back

      Apr 29, 2022

      Looking Back
      3 min read

    • Article

      Plein Air Painter

      Mar 4, 2021

      WHEN THE RUBY RANGE’s aspens turned gold last autumn, Shaun Horne was there, brush in hand. When severe winter storms heaped snow on the twelve-thousand-foot peaks, Shaun Horne was there, brush in hand. When spring’s long-awaited warmth triggered a h

      3 min read

    • Article

      From Reivers To Railways – the Forgotten Dodds Dynasty

      Apr 15, 2021

      In the early hours of the morning of 21st October 1805 a gas explosion ripped through the High Main seam of ‘C’ Pit at Hebburn Colliery, just south of the Tyne. 700ft underground 35 men died deaths as grim as any suffered at the Battle of Trafalgar,

      20 min read

    • Article

      Main Line Diesel Pioneers

      Nov 12, 2019

      Main Line Diesel Pioneers
      7 min read

    • Article

      Snapshots

      Jul 7, 2021

      Snapshots
      1 min read

    • Article

      New Zealand Bush Tractors

      Jun 7, 2022

      New Zealand Bush Tractors
      11 min read

    • Article

      Super Swede

      Feb 16, 2021

      Super Swede
      8 min read

    • Article

      A Tonic For The Modern Age

      May 14, 2021

      Martha and Primrose are the middle names of my two daughters who are a continuous source of inspiration for me. The vessel, Martha Primrose, is a spectacular 50ft (15.1m) gaff yawl designed by Ashley Butler and me as a cruising yacht and built in 201

      3 min read

    • Article

      Sewing The Seeds Of Packard

      May 30, 2022

      Sewing The Seeds Of Packard
      3 min read

    • Article

      New-Born Twins

      Dec 31, 2022

      New-Born Twins
      10 min read

    • Article

      A Truly Touring T

      Jul 9, 2021

      A Truly Touring T
      4 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for A Century of Railway Travel

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      A Century of Railway Travel - Paul Atterbury

      A Couple at the Window

      circa 1912

      This handsome couple posing in the window of a first-class compartment seem to capture the confident aura of Britain’s Edwardian era. They are well-dressed, relaxed and confident as they wait for the train to depart and the photographer seems to have captured a universally familiar event. In fact, the image, taken for publicity purposes, shows Walter Passmore, a famous actor and singer associated with the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, and his wife, the Scottish actress Agnes Fraser. The couple are representatives of a time when trains were for most people an essential part of daily life. The world of theatre and entertainment was especially indebted to railways. Actors and performers regularly travelled the length and breadth of Britain by train. The railways also transported sets and costumes, for which special goods wagons were available, and famously carried whole circuses around the country, including the animals. A theatre company could finish their last performance on a Saturday night and by the Monday morning everything could be set up in another theatre, sometimes hundreds of miles away. The railways also catered for theatregoers, running late trains from city and town stations to the suburbs and the country. Another reflection of the place of the train in Edwardian life was the large number of books, comic songs, plays and early films that featured railway settings or

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1