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ISBN10: 0853616361, ISBN13: 9780853616368, [publisher: The Oakwood Press] Hardcover First Edition A fascinating history of the development of the pier and isle of wight transport. [GLOUCESTER, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2005]
ISBN10: 0853616361, ISBN13: 9780853616368, [publisher: The Oakwood Press] Hardcover The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. [Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2005]
ISBN10: 0853616361, ISBN13: 9780853616368, [publisher: The Oakwood Press, Usk, Mon.] Hardcover First Edition Oakwood Library of Railway History OL136. Some light foxing to pages. [Isle of Wight, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2005]
ISBN10: 0853616361, ISBN13: 9780853616368, [publisher: The Oakwood Press] Hardcover First Edition 1st edition. Fine hardback copy in Fine jacket. [Peterborough, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2005]
ISBN10: 0853616361, ISBN13: 9780853616368, [publisher: The Oakwood Press] Hardcover The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. [Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2005]
ISBN10: 0853616361, ISBN13: 9780853616368, [publisher: The Oakwood Press] Hardcover The emergence of Ryde as the principal point of entry to the Isle of Wight was due in no small part to the opening if Britain's first ever pier by the Ryde Pier Co. in 1814. Predating the railways in the the Isle of Wight by upwards of 50 years the pier was extended on several occasions before reaching its final half-mile length in the 1840s. The pier was ideally placed to benefit from the growth in travel to the island but its length was a grave disadvantage before the opening of a horse tramway in 1864. When the first railways in the Isle of Wight appeared during the 1860s the pier company was dragged into a fight with other promoters for the traffic through Ryde. Add to this a local authority implacably opposed to railway on the foreshore and we have a recipe for years of frustration and expense. The construction of extensions to the tramway terminus at St Johns Road crippled the finances but its hose-drawn traction pleased no-one. The London & South Western and London, Brighton & South Coast companies jointly built a railway as a replacement for the extensions and which finally ended the pier company's ambitions. The Ryde Pier Company was a pioneer in trying different methods of traction developed not for the benefit of railways but Britain's street tramways. Light steam locomotives were hired on two occasions and two steam tram locomotives worked the pier tr ...
The Oakwood Press, 28/07/Date: 2005 00:00:01. paperback. Like New. 2.1983 cent in x 20.9841 cent in x 15.3883 cent in. 2005. The Oakwood Press ISBN 0853616361 9780853616368 [GB]
ISBN10: 0853616361, ISBN13: 9780853616368, [publisher: The Oakwood Press] Softcover [Hemel Hempstead, HERT, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2005]
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