Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations; Dictionary of Railway Quotations

Dow, Andrew (ed.)

ISBN 10: 0801882923 / ISBN 13: 9780801882920

Published by Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 2006

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NEW IN DUST JACKET. First edition. Hardcover. 352 pp. Index of writers and speakers, index of subjects and key words. Authoritative compendium of quotations about railways from 1608 to the present day. More than 3400 entries drawn from over 1300 writers and speakers and a wide range of British and American sources. Seller Inventory # E6463B

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Title: Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations; ...

Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Publication Date: 2006

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Dust Jacket Condition: new

Edition: First edition.

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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 Permanent Way Institute, president of the Stephenson Locomotive Society, and vice chairman of the Gresley Society.