Buy this book on-line MORRISS, RICHARD: : THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF RAILWAYSUK.STROUD,GLOS.TEMPUS PUBLISHING LTD.,1999. ISBN 0752414305.
UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,scenic colour photographic illustrated upper wrap with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to corners - no nicks or tears present - head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright,clean, publisher's original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,4-192pp [paginated] includes separate contents+illus lists/tables,a preface,Pts 1-3 comprising 14 chapters,profuse contemporary b/w photographs throughout the text and the book,16pp colour scenic photographs between pp96/7,a glossary,a gazetteer,a bibliography and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages.
Ever since the Beeching 'Axe' of the early 1960's the skills of the industrial archaeologist have been increasingly needed to reconstruct the history of railways in Britain.Having set the subject in its historical framework,Richard Morriss looks systematically at the different types of evidence from the past that the amateur can find in the field.He first looks at the remains of civil engineering - from earthworks and the track,bridges,viaducts and tunnels,to the wide range of hybrid and rope-hauled railways.He then examines railway architecture,whether stations or all the ancillary buildings such as engine sheds and signal boxes.
Complete with a full glossary,a gazetteer
of key sites (ranging from the Isle of Wight to Inverness) and a fine range of unfamiliar illustrations,this is a book that will appeal both to archaeologists and to railway enthusiasts.
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