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  • The Planet and Samson Locomotives

    Their Design and Development

    by Anthony Dawson ...
    Robert Stephenson's Planet class locomotive was the first true design of mainline express passenger locomotive. Delivered less than a year after Rocket it was one of the most successful early locomotive designs. Planet set the mold for British locomotive design for more than the next century featuring a multi tubular boiler; inside cylinders; crank axle; and the first use of proper frames. The ... Read more

    $24.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Siege of Sevastopol, 1854–1855

    The War in the Crimea Told Through Newspaper Reports, Official Documents and the Accounts of Those Who Were There

    by Anthony Dawson ...
    Series series Voices from the Past
    A history of the grueling Crimean War battle as told through personal accounts of those who fought there.The Crimean War, the most destructive and deadly war of the nineteenth century, has been the subject of countless books, yet historian Anthony Dawson has amassed an astonishing collection of previously unknown and unpublished material, including numerous letters and private journals. Many ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Liverpool and Manchester Railway

    An Operating History

    by Anthony Dawson ...
    What day-to-day life was like for those who traveled and worked on the world's first intercity railway in early nineteenth-century England.Much has been written about the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, especially how it came into being and the Rainhill Trials, but very little has been said about what happened after the grand opening on 15 September 1830.Drawing on years of research, and practical ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Railway that Helped Win the Crimean War

    The Story of the Grand Crimean Central Railway

    by Anthony Dawson ...
    Week after week, the guns of the British expeditionary force battered away at the defences of Sevastopol, eight miles away from Balaklava, the port through which all besiegers' supplies arrived. As autumn turned to winter, rain and frost turned the track from Balaklava into a muddy quagmire and soon it became virtually impassable. Horses were dying daily in their endeavours to pull carts up the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Letters from the Light Brigade

    The British Cavalry in the Crimean War

    by Anthony Dawson ...
    "Dozens of graphic first-hand accounts of the Charge of the Light Brigade emerge to shed new light on the military blunder immortalised by Tennyson's poem" (The Telegraph (UK)).The Charge of the Light Brigade is one of the most famous, controversial and emotive small-scale actions in military history. Over 160 years since the event, and since it was immortalized in Tennyson's poem, it has ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Real War Horses

    The Experience of the British Cavalry 1814 - 1914

    by Anthony Dawson ...
    Many histories have been written about the conflicts the British army was involved in between the Battle of Waterloo and the First World War. There are detailed studies of campaigns and battles and general accounts of the experiences of the soldiers. But this book by Anthony Dawson is the first to concentrate in depth, in graphic detail, on the experiences of the British cavalry during a century ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Day in the Life of an Engine Driver

    by Anthony Dawson ...
    In the age of steam it seemed that every little boy had an ambition to be an engine driver – even the notoriously anti-railway Charles Dickens thought there was something alluring about the role. Becoming an engine driver is still an ambition of many, thanks to the steam preservation movement. In this book, Anthony Dawson explores what it was like to be an engine driver in the age of steam. ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Locomotives of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway

    by Anthony Dawson ...
    The Liverpool & Manchester Railway was Britain's first mainline, intercity railway; opened in 1830 it was at the cutting edge of railway technology. Engineered by George Stephenson and his team – John Dixon, William Allcard, Joseph Locke – the project faced many obstacles both before and after opening, including local opposition and the choice of motive power, resulting in the Rainhill Trials of ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Woodhead Route

    by Anthony Dawson ...
    The Woodhead Route from Manchester to Sheffield has achieved almost mythical status, not only thanks to the Woodhead Tunnels, but also because of the unique EM1 and EM2 electric locomotives. Inspired by the first ‘Railway Mania’ of the 1830s, the Woodhead Route was the first railway built to link Manchester with Sheffield. After many false starts, and even a change of chief engineer, it was ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Travelling on the Victorian Railway

    Travel in the Early Days of Steam

    by Anthony Dawson ...
    ‘The most striking result produced by the completion of this Railway, is the sudden and marvellous change which has been effected in our ideas of time and space. What was quick is now slow; what was distant is now near.’ So wrote Henry Booth of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. The early railways changed all aspects of life: what people ate (and how they cooked), what they wore and how they ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Locomotives of the Victorian Railway

    The Early Days of Steam

    by Anthony Dawson ...
    In the quarter of a century between 1830 and 1855, the railway locomotive developed from the small sisters of Rocketto the broad gauge monsters of Daniel Gooch, with a boiler pressure nearly three times that of Rocketand weighing in at nearly 40 tons (eight times the weight of Rocket). There was a marked increase in loads, speeds and reliability as the railways spread across the country from their ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • North Staffordshire Railway

    by Anthony Dawson ...
    The ‘Knotty’ was one of the most beloved of Britain’s pre-grouping companies. Centred on Stoke-on-Trent, at one time it carried two-thirds of the country’s pottery, as well as partaking in the lucrative coal and iron trades. It began to build its own carriages and locomotives at an early date and operated an extensive canal system, as well as narrow gauge lines including the Leek & Manifold. Never ... Read more

    $12.59 USD