The London & Portsmouth Direct Atmospheric Railway

Autorentext
The author was a primary school headmaster in South London for some twenty years. He is an established author of some thirty books on a variety of subjects, principally for schools and on the history of the town of Kendal to which he retired in 1984. He was the Reviews Editor for the Journal of the School Natural Science Society for over twenty-five years, writing many reviews himself, and was the General Editor from 1990 to 1992. He wrote articles for the Journal and produced pamphlets for teachers and children on aspects of science education and natural history. He was a member of the Inner London Education Authority's Advisory Committee for Religious Education and wrote books and pamphlets for the National Christian Education Council together with articles for the Sunday School Chronicle. He wrote and presented radio scripts for a Christian radio organization. He was born in 1923, the momentous year of the Railway Grouping, and lived his early days beside the Brighton line of the Southern Railway. He has undertaken a depth of research into railways, their histories and operation. His particular field is early railway history but he writes on many diverse railway subjects for national railway magazines.

Klappentext
The story of the attempt to construct The London & Portsmouth Direct Atmospheric Railway during the 1840s Railway Mania. This was the age of invention and many strange systems of powering trains were devised. Brunel used the atmospheric system with disastrous financial results in Devon. Like other systems, it had faults and eventually failed.

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