Add this copy of Gwr Engineering Work: 1928-1938 to cart. $18.60, new condition, Sold by Kennys.ie rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Galway, IRELAND, published 2003 by Tourret Publishing.
Add this copy of GWR Engineering Work: 1928-1938 to cart. $20.29, poor condition, Sold by Hay-on-Wye Booksellers rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hereford, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2003 by Tourret Publishing.
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Poor. The books dust jacket is in very good condition with ware such as creasing scuffs and a couple of small tears. The content is in very good condition, there is light foxining/tanning on the title page. 220 p. Contains: Unspecified. Includes unspecified.
Add this copy of Gwr Engineering Work: 1928-1938 to cart. $37.56, very good condition, Sold by Pendleburys Bookshop rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Llanwrda, CARMARTHENSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2003 by Tourret Publishing.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Book Hardback, quarto, 11 4/5" x 8 1/2", a near fine tightly bound copy in a well preserved pictorial dust wrapper and with a clean and unmarked text, illustrated throughout, iv + 225pp. A heavy book which may, if ordered from certain locations outside the United Kingdom, attract a request for additional postage. Please enquire prior to ordering.
Add this copy of Gwr Engineering Work 1928-1938 to cart. $40.46, new condition, Sold by Allen Williams Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dover, KENT, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2003 by Tourret Publishing.
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New in New jacket. Book. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. This book reviews the engineering works, civil and mechanical, carried out by the Great Western Railway in the decade 1928-1938. In this period, it almost seems that the GWR were rebuilding their whole system, so extensive were the works that were carried out. Bearing in mind that these years covered more or less the 1930s years of industrial depression with high unemployment, it is all the more impressive that the GWR accomplished so much, indeed these foundations mostly remain today. The government of the day helped by passing the Development (Loan Guarantees and Grants) Act of 1929, under which the government could pay the interest on capital expended on schemes of development. Most railways took advantage of this Act, but none more so than the GWR, who participated in the anticipation that trade would improve and there would be a need for better railway transport facilities. By the end of 1933, they had 35 separate schemes involving a total of about £8, 000, 000, an enormous amount of money in those days. The GWR programme covered all sections of railway and dock operations throughout the system, and included major improvements at the main stations, lines being quadrupled, new avoiding lines, extension of Automatic Train Control, colour-light signalling and improved dock facilities in South Wales, as well as a host of smaller improvements, some carried out in cooperation with Local Town Councils and the like. Contains over 325 photographs and over 80 drawings.
