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Descripción Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The true story that captures the drama and harsh reality behind the building of this iconic structure. For years the dominant sounds at Ribblehead were the bleating of sheep and the croaky calls of grouse. Then came the railway engineers and their men, linking Settle with Carlisle. Thunderous noises, including a new-fangled explosive called dynamite, echoed in and around the mountains. Ribblehead Viaduct, which symbolises the strength and durability of the Settle-Carlisle railway, was built by a Victorian work force. How that force was mustered and how its various skills were applied in a bleak high Pennine setting, are related in this book. The railway settlement on and around Batty Green, at the headwaters of the Ribble, lived, throve and died in less than ten years. As men constructed the longest viaduct on the line, others were hacking and blasting their way through Blea Moor, warming dynamite in their pockets before use! The Batty Green workforce, their wives and children, experienced earthquake, flood and an outbreak of smallpox. Read about their austere lives, about saints and sinners. A railway missionary preached the Gospel and organised 'penny readings'. Policemen and excise men snooped around the huts at night, detecting illicit drinking of beer that retailed at sixpence a quart. The Settle-Carlisle line was built by a single enterprising company in a single feverish spell of activity and at an expenditure of almost GBP 3.5m. This book has unlikely heroes. Job Hurst, sub-contractor at the viaduct, taught his building craft in his native Yorkshire, exercised it on the Bombay to Poonah railway, the first on the sub-Continent of India, then demonstrated it on the Pennines. Information about Job Hurst came from descendants living in America. Harry Cox was among those who re-bricked the arches of Ribblehead viaduct before the First World War. In the 1980s, Tony Freschini was resident engineer when the celebrated viaduct was renovated. Words and pictures relate how a railway was built across vacant, wine-red moorland. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Nº de ref. del artículo: GOR004110860
Descripción Condición: VeryGood. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Nº de ref. del artículo: wbs3669015496
Descripción Condición: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Signed by Author(Unverified). Nº de ref. del artículo: wbs6201841942
Descripción Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition. This is a Fine Copy of this book in publisher's black coloured boards with gilt title lettering to spine in a Fine Dust-Jacket that has NO chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-wrapper.Price clipped.This copy has NO previous owner's names or inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.Lovely tight square copy.Well illustrated throughout in both colour and black and white.4to 159pp First UK Edition 1st Impression [2009]. Nº de ref. del artículo: 81200
Descripción Hardcover. Condición: Very Good +. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good Price Clipped. 159pp, bw & col illus, dw has a repaired edge nick to top of spine. Nº de ref. del artículo: 022953
Descripción Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Nº de ref. del artículo: BN00884