Bøker av Michael H. C. Baker

With over 200 images, this is a visual journey around the Emerald Isle over 100 years, moving through to modern times, showing the various traction, locomotives and stations that have made Ireland's railways what they are today.

When this story begins passengers then as now were the main business of the railways in southern England. Since then electrification has been the priority. Diesels appeared in the 1950s, steam ended in 1967, branch lines closed with Beeching, but in compensation the south has a remarkable network of preserved steam and diesel operated railways.

Paddington is one of the great railway stations. Temporary buildings were opened in 1838 as the London terminus. The present station was designed and built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel who considered that nothing less than a grand terminus to the GWR would be acceptable. The first service from the new station departed on 16 January 1854.

London Transport was created in 1933 to coordinate the shambolic, overlapping transport systems of the capital, and for decades has striven to meet the challenges of organising London travel. This book presents the story of the organisation from its origins, through the upheavals of the Second World War, to TfL's biggest project - Crossrail.