It could be agued that the great Western or 'Gods' Wonderful Railway' was for many years the most famous railway in England. Much of the railway that we see today was the work of probably one of the greatest engineers of his time, Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The company was also served by locomotive engineers such as Gooch, Armstrong, Churchward, Collett and Hawksworth, who bewtween the produced a series of locomotives that were well designed, elegant and powerful. Serving many holiday resorts of the south west, with trains ...
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It could be agued that the great Western or 'Gods' Wonderful Railway' was for many years the most famous railway in England. Much of the railway that we see today was the work of probably one of the greatest engineers of his time, Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The company was also served by locomotive engineers such as Gooch, Armstrong, Churchward, Collett and Hawksworth, who bewtween the produced a series of locomotives that were well designed, elegant and powerful. Serving many holiday resorts of the south west, with trains such as 'The Cornish Riviera Express', the publicity department exploited to great effect that the 'Great Western' was the 'Holiday Line'. It is probably true to say that in the years before the 2nd world war the company was producing some of the most effective publicity material in England. Using previously unpublished material from the extensive 'Great Western Trust' collection at Didcot Railway Centre, the book illustrates in both black and white and colour many facets that made the Great Western 'Great"
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First edition (hardback). 4to (29cm by 22cm), 184pp. Illustrated throughout in b&w and colour. Original black cloth, dustwrapper. Minor bumping to the upper corners of the boards, else the book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 9781526707031.
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