CHAPTER SEVEN: Carnforth
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Topic | Source |
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164 |
The stationmaster’s politics: |
Roy Jenkins, Gladstone(1995) p 513 |
167 |
Mainly because of railway timetables: |
AJP Taylor, How Wars Begin (1979) p 120 |
167-8 |
The Schlieffen Plan: |
Ibidp 117 |
168 |
It cannot be done: |
Barbara W Tuchman, The Guns of August (1962) pp 75-79 |
168 |
....and ended up in lunatic asylums: |
ibid p 80 |
169 |
Those helpful Germans: |
Ernest F Carter (1964) op. cit. p 78 |
169 |
German rejection of electrification: |
Allan Mitchell, The Great Train Race: Railways and the Franco-German Rivalry 1815-1914 (2000) |
170 |
The English visitors refused to budge: |
Manchester Guardian, 4 August 1914 |
170 |
The Earl of Ronaldshay: |
Hansard, House of Commons, 23 April 1914 |
171 |
Not Aunt Sallys but heroes: |
Wolmar op. cit. p 207 |
171 |
The Northern Junction: |
Ernest F. Carter (1964) op. cit. p 81 |
171 |
Light duties: |
Manchester Guardian, 9 July 1915 |
172 |
Walking through a blizzard: |
Ernest F. Carter (1964) op. cit. p 211 |
172 |
Railway shares rally: |
Manchester Guardian, 2 and 5 January 1917 |
173 |
JL Hammond’s triumphant explanation: |
Manchester Guardian, 8 October 1919 |
175 |
No obligation, says Geddes: |
The Times, 27 May 1921 |
176-7 |
Sir Josiah Stamp’s complaint: |
Manchester Guardian, 28 February 1931 |
177 |
Dreary Cornwall: |
Bradshaw’s Monthly Descriptive Guide and Illustrated Hand-book of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland , May 1857, p 112 |
178 |
Selling transport to customers: |
Interview with author, 2008 |
178 |
Just a single second: |
Don Hale, Mallard (2005) p 146 |
178-9 |
The corridor tender: |
Wolmar, op.cit, p 246 |
179 |
Pathé cinema van: |
Daily Mail, 3 July 2008 |
179 |
A golden age for the railway: |
The Guardian, 16 June 2006 |
180 |
Premature, to say the least: |
The Times, 31 December 1932 |
180 |
A NEW RAILWAY: |
The Times, 7 July 1922 |
181 |
It turned up too late: |
Interview with author, 2008 |
181 |
We had two people on Monday: |
David St. John Thomas, The Country Railway (1965) p 130-1 |
183 |
Mr Bushnell, waving a stick: |
The Times, 12 September 1932 |
183 |
Traffic did not develop...: |
GA Brown, JDCA Prideaux and HG Radcliffe, op. cit. p 37 |
187 |
9,000 instances of enemy damage: |
Robert Bell, History of British Railways During the War 1939-45 (1946) p 57-58 |
187 |
The Potts line: |
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188 |
The Golden Valley line: |
WH Smith, The Golden Valley Railway (1993) p 74 |
188 |
The tarpaulin armada: |
British Railway Press Office, It Can Now Be Revealed (1945) p 42-43 |
189 |
Lacking in dramatic force: |
The Times, 22 November 1945 |
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