Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations

Dow, Andrew

ISBN 10: 0801882923 / ISBN 13: 9780801882920

Editore: John Hopkins University Press, 2006

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• Titolo: Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations
• Editore: John Hopkins University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0801882923
• ISBN 13: 9780801882920
• Rilegatura: hardcover
• Condizione: New

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Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations is a compendium of quotations about railways from 1608 to the present day. More than 3,400 entries are drawn from over 1,300 writers and speakers and a wide range of original sources both British and American - Acts of Parliament, poetry, songs, journals, advertisements, obituaries, novels, histories, plays, films, office memoranda, speeches, newspapers, television and radio broadcasts, and private documents and conversations.
Dow's Dictionary will inform and captivate railway enthusiasts along with readers interested in railway architecture, engineering, geography, and history.

Informazioni sull?autore

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Andrew Dow was born into a railway family in Hitchin, England, where his parents worked at the wartime headquarters of the London & North Eastern Railway. He spent thirty years in the aviation industry before being appointed Head of the National Railway Museum in York in 1992. He is the author of Norfolk & Western Coal Cars (TLC, 1998) and Telling the Passenger Where to Get Off (Capital Transport, 2005). He is a fellow of the Permanent Way Institute, president of the Stephenson Locomotive Society, and vice chairman of the Gresley Society.