Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations

Dow, Andrew

ISBN 10: 0801882923 / ISBN 13: 9780801882920

Published by Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006

About this Item

Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 354 p., 24 cm. Subjects; Railroads -- Quotations, maxims, etc. Civil & Environmental Engineering. Transportation Engineering. Engineering & Applied Sciences. Railroads Literary collections. 1 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations
• Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801882923
• ISBN 13: 9780801882920
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st edition.
• Weight: 1 kilogram

About this title

Synopsis

"Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations" is an authoritative 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. Here, Andrew Dow records remarkable, memorable words - from the well-known to the abstruse, from the commonplace to the vital. The selected quotations are arranged by subject matter and searchable by speaker, subject, and keyword. "Dow's Dictionary" will inform and captivate railway enthusiasts along with readers interested in railway architecture, engineering, geography, and history.

About the Author

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 Royal Society of Arts, President of the Stephenson Locomotive Society, and vice chairman of the Gresley Society.