Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations

Dow, Andrew

ISBN 10: 0801882923 / ISBN 13: 9780801882920

Editore: John's Hopkins, Baltimore, 2006

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Bound in the publisher's original green cloth over boards, spine stamped in gilt. Profusely illustrated throughout. Codice articolo 9021812

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Titolo: Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations

Casa editrice: John's Hopkins, Baltimore

Data di pubblicazione: 2006

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Fine

Condizione sovraccoperta: fine

Edizione: 1st.

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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.

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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.