Confessions Of A Steam Age Ferroequinologist
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Confessions of A Steam Age Ferroequinologist
Author | : Keith Widdowson |
Publsiher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2019-10-04 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780750993456 |
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ferroequinologist (noun) Someone who studies the 'Iron Horse' (i.e. trains and locomotives). From the Latin ferrus 'iron' and equine 'horse' + -logist As the British steam era drew to a close, a young Keith Widdowson set out to travel on as many steam-hauled trains as possible – documenting each journey in his notebooks. In Confessions of a Steam Age Ferroequinologist, he cracks these books open and blows off the dust. His self-imposed mission, that of riding behind as many Iron Horses as possible prior to their premature annihilation, led to hours of nocturnal travels, extended periods of inactivity in station waiting rooms, missed connections and fatigue. However, any downsides of his quest were compensated by the camaraderie found amongst a group of like-minded colleagues who congregated on such trains. This is a book that no self-respecting ferroequinologist should be without.
The Great Western Steam Retreat
Author | : Keith Widdowson |
Publsiher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2022-01-06 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780750999779 |
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In mid-1964, Keith Widdowson got wind that the Western Region was hell-bent on being the first to eliminate the steam locomotive on its tracks by December 1965. The 17-year-old hurriedly homed in on train services still in the hands of GWR steam power, aiming to catch runs with the last examples before their premature annihilation. The Great Western Steam Retreat recalls Widdowson's teenage exploits, soundtracked by hits from the Beatles, the Kinks and the Rolling Stones, throughout the Western Region and former Great Western Railway lines. He documents the extreme disorder that resulted from that decision, paying tribute to the train crews who managed to meet demanding timings in the face of declining cleanliness, the poor quality of coal and the major problem of recruiting both footplate and shed staff. This book completes the author's Steam Chase series and provides a snapshot into the comradery that characterised the final years of steam alongside the long-gone journeys that can never be recreated.
Amazing and Curious Railway Tales
Author | : Colin G. Maggs |
Publsiher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2021-06-17 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780750997812 |
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Who won in a race between a train and a pigeon? How can you warn bats to leave a railway tunnel? Before the era of the car, which railway company carried the most prisoners? Colin G. Maggs has collected all of these answers – and more! – in Amazing and Curious Railway Tales, a compendium of stories, curiosities and little-known facts about Britain's railways.
The Great Western Steam RetreatThe Great Western Steam Retreat
Author | : KEITH. WIDDOWSON |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2022-01-06 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 0750998075 |
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One man's personal travelogue of his journeys throughout BR's Western Region, Wales and the Welsh Marches during the final months of steam
A Thesaurus of English Word Roots
Author | : Horace Gerald Danner |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 1007 |
Release | : 2014-03-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781442233263 |
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Horace G. Danner’s A Thesaurus of English Word Roots is a compendium of the most-used word roots of the English language. As Timothy B. Noone notes in his foreword: “Dr. Danner’s book allows you not only to build up your passive English vocabulary, resulting in word recognition knowledge, but also gives you the rudiments for developing your active English vocabulary, making it possible to infer the meaning of words with which you are not yet acquainted. Your knowledge can now expand and will do so exponentially as your awareness of the roots in English words and your corresponding ability to decode unfamiliar words grows apace. This is the beginning of a fine mental linguistic library: so enjoy!” In A Thesaurus of English Word Roots, all word roots are listed alphabetically, along with the Greek or Latin words from which they derive, together with the roots’ original meanings. If the current meaning of an individual root differs from the original meaning, that is listed in a separate column. In the examples column, the words which contain the root are then listed, starting with their prefixes, for example, dysacousia, hyperacousia. These root-starting terms then are followed by terms where the root falls behind the word, e.g., acouesthesia and acoumeter. These words are followed by words where the root falls in the middle or the end, as in such terms as bradyacusia and odynacusis.. In this manner, A Thesaurus of English Word Roots places the word in as many word families as there are elements in the word. This work will interest linguists and philologists and anyone interested in the etymological aspects of English language.
Between Heaven and Earth
Author | : Robert Nurden |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2021-04-19 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1838447709 |
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Stanley James, as a young man in the Canadian West, was by turns a cowboy, shepherd, navvy, hobo and newspaper reporter, soldier in the Spanish-American war, poet, playwright and actor. Returning to his native England, he married and became a Nonconformist minister who both charmed and alienated his Walthamstow congregation with his socialism and pacifism and support for women's emancipation. In 1923 he converted and reinvented himself as one of the best-known Catholic writers of the English-speaking world, with nine books to his name. Widely respected for his knowledge, passion and insight, he worked alongside Bertrand Russell and counted G.K. Chesterton among his friends. Yet the chance discovery of hundreds of secret letters and diaries of three women - many quoted in this account - shattered the image. These documents show in intriguing and often explicit detail that, as a husband and father of seven, he had an affair and liaisons with members of his congregation. Just how much did his family and friends know?
The Caboose who Got Loose
Author | : Bill Peet |
Publsiher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1980-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0395287154 |
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Tired of being last on the smoky, noisy train, Katy wishes for some way to escape the endless track.
The Last One s Gone Lost Railway Locations of the 1960s
Author | : Keith Widdowson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1445695979 |
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A collection of nostalgic images, many previously unpublished, documenting railway locations that are now sadly gone.