The Stephenson Railway Legacy - Couverture souple

Alexander, Colin; Siton, Alon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1445676540 ISBN 13 : 9781445676548

Editeur : Amberley Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

George Stephenson was born in 1781, the son of a Northumberland colliery engineman. Within 100 years of his birth his railway legacy had opened up vast tracts of the planet, many of those routes engineered by George himself or his son Robert. Their locomotive factory at Newcastle-upon-Tyne soon outgrew its premises and a much larger site was founded at Darlington. The father and son are well known for their pioneering work on the Stockton & Darlington and Liverpool & Manchester railways, but they engineered more than locomotives. Robert is responsible for some of the world's most innovative and impressive bridges and the company the Stephensons founded continued (as Robert Stephenson Hawthorn) to build locomotives for a burgeoning worldwide market for well over a century. This book will tell its story and show its global influence.

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À propos des auteurs

Colin Alexander has been a railway enthusiast for more than thirty years and volunteered on preserved Deltic locomotives. He was born in Northumberland, and has a life-long passion for local and transport history, sparked by his mother's copy of The King's England - Northumberland. Appreciative of the county's unique place geographically and historically, he has explored most of its once-inhabited hilltops and its mediaeval castles, and walked the length of its greatest defensive monument - Hadrian's Wall. He lives in Whitley Bay.

Alon is a transport history author specialising in railways.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Amberley Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1445676540
• ISBN 13: 9781445676548
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible