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150 Years of Railway Architecture and Engineering
Railways and railway stations have always been associated with
romance, adventure and the pioneering spirit. They caught the
Victorian imagination, and the proud and individual railway
companies became some of the most prolific and inventive builders
of the Industrial Revolution. The Railway Heritage of Britain
covers an enormous variety of subjects: not only stations, bridges,
tunnels and viaducts but hotels, engine sheds, warehouses, water
towers and signal boxes, crossing keepers’ cottages and war
memorials. The railway network was built by well over a hundred
different companies, each with its own distinctive style. All the
main ones are introduced in the book, together with their
locomotives and rolling stock, their platform signs, tickets and
operating equipment. Biographical portraits of Isambard Kingdom
Brunel, Robert Stephenson, Sir William Tite, the Cubitts and other
leading architects and engineers complete this region-by-region
history of British railway building as it can still be seen and
appreciated today.
How to Use This Book
Introduction
Eastern Region
Splendours and Miseries of British Rail’s Architectural
Heritage
London Midland Region
Scottish Region
Southern Region
Western Region
Glossary of Terms
Appendix: British Rail’s Listed Buildings
Picture Credits
Acknowledgements
Index
The railway heritage of Britain : 150 years of railway architecture
and engineering / Gordon Biddle and O.S. Nock, with other
contributors
Format BookBook
Author
Biddle, Gordon
[Gordon Biddle (Open Library)]
Description London : M. Joseph, 1983.
270 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 30
cm.
Notes
" ... an official publication of the British Railways Board" - p.
[4]
Includes index.
Subjects Railroads - Great Britain - Buildings and structures.
Other authors/contributors Nock, O. S. (Oswald Stevens), 1905- |
British Railways Bo
INTRODUCTION
No one who travels by rail can fail to notice that he is using an
old form of land transport, the first in fact to offer an advance
on horse power. The trains may be modern or relatively so, but neon
signs, petrol stations and all the clutter and ribbon development
associated with the ubiquitous motor car are comparatively absent
along the railway lines. The countryside very often comes up to the
tracks, the scene is more pastoral, still recognisably the world
portrayed by the early railway artists such as J. C. Bourne, A. F.
Tait and many others, in which sheep grazed beneath the viaducts
and the carriage-borne gentry travelled out to admire the
ornamental tunnel portals and the steam horses of the iron
roads.
Even in the cities the railways usually approach the stations
against a backdrop of old mills and warehouses, some still bearing
enamel or wooden advertising signs, all mixed up with Victorian
terraces displaying their backyards and too often awaiting the
demolition contractor. Here we scent the Victorian underworld of
Doré, Mayhew and Dickens.
PERTH
Perth is a remarkable station in several respects, and is well
named ‘the Gateway to the Highlands’; before the
Grouping of 1923 it was here that enormous volumes of summer
traffic were exchanged with the Highland Railway. In the summer of
1923, for instance, 25 major long-distance expresses containing
sleeping cars, Pullmans and through coaches to and from a wide
variety of destinations were re-marshalled at Perth each day for
the south-bound direction.
For its design Tite clearly copied many features from his station
at Carlisle, particularly the generally Tudor styling and the
turret. The main footbridge (added later) is virtually a replica of
the Carlisle footbridge.
The fine two-storey buildings have had several extensions over the
years, and at one time housed three separate booking offices, for
the Highland, the Caledonian and the North British. The old
refreshment room still retains its Corinthian columns, deep
panelled ceiling and marble fireplace, relics of more prosperous
times.
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