Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations

Dow, Andrew [Editor]

ISBN 10: 0801882923 / ISBN 13: 9780801882920

Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006

About this Item

NOT an ex library book. 352 pages including the index. Dust jacket has no chips or tears.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801882923
• ISBN 13: 9780801882920
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, full list of numb.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: near fine
• Weight: 30 ounces

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