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From the duo that have turned their railway enthusiasm into an ever-growing You Tube community comes their first book for older children and young adults. This is a lively, interactive book that turns a train trip into a journey of discovery. Designed to be visually energetic and fresh this is a wonder-provoking, fact-filled book that will also appeal to the grown ups who share their children's pleasure in the British railways. With chapters on trains, tickets, important people, design of stations and seats, tremendous bridges and viaducts, castles and historic sites, wildlife, trains in movies - the book is bursting with lists to spot, note, answer and full of details and anecdotes to revel in.

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Publié par	September Publishing
Date de parution	06 février 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781912836291
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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First published in 2020 by September Publishing
Copyright Vicki Pipe 2020
The right of Vicki Pipe to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright holder
Illustrations by Grace Helmer Designed by Emily Sear
Printed in Poland on paper from responsibly managed, sustainable sources by Hussar Books
ISBN 9781912836284
September Publishing www.septemberpublishing.org
Vicki Pipe with Geoff Marshall
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CONTENTS

Introduction 8
Where It All Began 10
Trains 14
Rare Services 26
Design 30
Tickets 44
Bridges, Tunnels, and Viaducts 50
Numbers (Part One) 56
Clocks 60
Staff 64
Prominent People 68
Numbers (Part Two) 78
Vicki Explores 84
Station Names 96
Nature and the Railways 100
Seeing the Future 114
50 THINGS TO SEE DO

1 See Britain s Railway Firsts
2 Ride All the Train Operating Companies
3 Route 1: London Overground
4 Route 2: C2C and Greater Anglia
5 Route 3: Chiltern / Great Western Railway (GWR) / Heathrow Express / TfL Rail
6 Route 4: Merseyrail
7 Route 5: ScotRail
8 Britain's Busiest Railway Hub
9 How Many Train Classes Can You Ride?
10 Take a Rare Service
11 Visit an Award-Winning Station
12 Stop by Britain's Largest Stations
13 Spot the Smallest Stations
14 Find a Platform-Only Station
15 Marvellous Moquettes
16 What s on Your Ticket?
17 The First Ticket Office
18 Permit to Travel Machines
19 Travel Over an Amazing Bridge
20 Go Through a Tremendous Tunnel
21 Go Over a Brilliant Viaduct
22 Most and Least Used Stations
23 See Incredible Clocks
24 Can You Spot These People?
25 Take a Trailblazing Route
26 Visit Asquith Xavier s Plaque
27 Can You Cut It?
28 A Navvy Memorial
29 Brunel's Masterpieces
30 Railway Measurements
31 Travel Up and Down the Stations!
32 Platforms
33 Castles by the Railways
34 Take a Train to Humber Bridge
35 The Hardy Tree
36 The Crooked Spire
37 A World Heritage Site
38 Going into Battle
39 Crossing the Border
40 Your Favourite Station
41 Sign Language
42 Tree Spotting
43 Leaves on the Line
44 Getting Close to Nature
45 Incredible Edible
46 Non-Edible Gardens
47 Railway Pets
48 New Trains
49 New Stations
50 Next Stop

CHECKLIST
INTRODUCTION
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INTRODUCTION

The history of the railways in Britain is very complicated.
The railways didn t grow slowly. Lots of very important
events happened in a very short space of time and each
one had a significant impact on the other. In fact, one
of the most difficult questions to answer is, what was
Britain s first railway? That all depends on what you mean
by the word railway.
To begin with a railway was a path created by a set of metal
tracks (sound familiar so far?) on which carts or waggons
were pulled, usually by horses. They carried materials from
quarries or mines quickly and more reliably than humans.
These railways were usually just called waggonways or
tramways , and they were only used by people working in
the mines to move things about.
But then in 1798, the Lake Lock Railroad in Stanley near
Wakefield opened, allowing anyone to transport goods for
a price. The fact that anybody could use the line made it
a public, not a private railway. It was the first of its kind in
Britain and possibly the world - and it changed everything!
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Once the idea of a public railway for goods was achieved, it
wasn t too long before someone realised railways might be
good for transporting people too. The first few attempts
at public passenger railways in Britain were a mix of those
that were pulled by horses, and those experimenting with
something called a steam engine.
As soon as the steam engine had been perfected there was
no stopping Britain s railways. Everyone got excited and
lines started popping up all over the place. Different railway
companies were formed and each one was desperate to
be the first to reach a new town, village, or city. Some
companies didn t care if someone else had gotten there
before them. They simply built a brand-new route and put
their station in a slightly different place. Windsor Central
and Windsor Eton Riverside stations are great examples
of this.
It s because the story of the railways is so complicated that
there is always lots to look out for when you re travelling
by train. From unusual stations to wonderful wildlife and
unbelievable bridges, this book will take you on a journey of
fifty of the most fascinating things to see and do across the
railways of England, Scotland, and Wales.
CHAPTER 1
WHERE IT ALL BEGAN
CHAPTER 1: WHERE IT ALL BEGAN
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See Britain's Railway Firsts
Let s start at the beginning with a handy timeline, and a list of places you can see today.

Lake Lock Railroad, Stanley near Wakefield
The first public goods railway pulled by horses. Take the two-mile walk from Outwood station in Wakefield to find the blue plaque commemorating the line, which is located on the corner of Lake Lock Road and Aberford Road.
The First Steam Engine, Abercynon Station
The first successful steam engine was built by Richard Trevithick. The engine pulled a wagon carrying ten tons of iron from the Pen-y-Darren ironworks to the canal at Abercynon, where it dropped off the iron and returned to the works. It was a journey of about nine miles. A plaque and information board commemorating the event can be found at Abercynon station. A replica of the engine is on display at the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea.

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1804
CHAPTER 1: WHERE IT ALL BEGAN
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Oystermouth Railway, Swansea
The first public passenger railway pulled by horses. You can now cycle the route of the original railway line by following the signs for the Swansea Bike Path, between Swansea and Mumbles.
Stockton Darlington Railway, Durham
The first public steam railway, which carried coal, flour, and other goods between Stockton, Darlington, Shildon, and Bishop Auckland. The railway did also carry passengers, but these trains were pulled by horses for the first few years with just one exception. On the day the railway opened, the steam engine famously known as Locomotion No1 pulled carriages containing over 500 people. They became the first passengers to officially travel on a steam railway!
Today a journey between Stockton, Darlington, and Shildon will follow some of the railway s original route. Stop at Darlington station to see a large display with lots more information about the history of the line. A little further up the tracks, at North Road station, you can also visit the Head of Steam museum.

1807
1825
CHAPTER 1: WHERE IT ALL BEGAN
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1830

Liverpool Manchester Railway
The first steam passenger and goods railway to connect two cities. The line was instantly popular with passengers, who loved being able to travel quicker and cheaper than ever before. The thirty- one mile journey took just one hour and forty-six minutes by train. It usually took three hours by horse and coach - ouch!
Today the line between Liverpool and Manchester follows exactly the same route, stopping at almost all the same stations (although the station buildings have all been rebuilt). The station at the Manchester end of the line (confusingly called Liverpool Road) is no longer in use, but it is now part of the Science and Industry Museum.
CHAPTER 2
TRAINS
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Today there are twenty-eight different companies who operate trains on the mainline British railway network. The reason why there are so many is (of course) long and complicated.
To start with, when the railways were first being built each railway line was owned by a separate company with their own name. By 1921, over 120 different railway companies existed. This was way too many, and so an act of parliament known as The Grouping Act was introduced. It forced the majority of companies to merge together, creating four super-railway companies known as The Big Four ; the Great Western Railway, the London Midland and Scottish Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, and Southern Railway.
Things changed again in 1948 when British Rail (usually just known as BR) took control of all four railway companies on behalf of the British Government in a process known as nationalisation. British Rail lasted for almost fifty years until the 1990s when everything went back to how it was before (well almost), with separate train companies running services on different sections of the network. This process is known as privatisation.
CHAPTER 2: TRAINS
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Ride All the Train Operating Companies (TOCs)
Can you take on the ultimate railway challenge and travel on at least one train from each TOC?

Avanti West Coast
C2C
Caledonian Sleeper
Chiltern Railways
CrossCountry
East Midlands Railway
Gatwick Express
Grand Central
Great Northern
Great Western Railway
Greater Anglia
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Heathrow Express
Hull Trains
Island Line
London North Eastern Railway (LNER)
London Northwestern Railway
London Overground
Merseyrail
Northern
ScotRail
South Western Railway
Southeastern
Southern
TfL Rail
Thameslink
TransPennine Express
Transport for Wales
West Midlands Railway
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To help you get started, we ve created some suggested routes. Each one groups together two or three different TOCs; this way you can tick off several different companies in just one or two days.
Why not try out our suggested routes first, and then have a go at creating your own for the remaining TOCs on your list?

Route 1 London Overground

The trains on the London Overground carry passengers around London without going through the very cent