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The Harcourt Street Line: Back on Track SIGNED

Door Brian Mac Aongusa

Categorie	Treinen, Trams, Autobussen & Openbaar Vervoer
Boeknummer	#325229-AC1
Titel	The Harcourt Street Line: Back on Track SIGNED
Auteur	Aongusa, Brian Mac
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Blackrock : Currach Press
Jaar van uitgave	2003
ISBN10	1856079074
ISBN13	9781856079075
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with b/w photographs, square, circa 23x23cm. Signed by the author on title page.
Samenvatting	Brian Mac Aongusa revisits the Harcourt Street Line of his youth and reviews its operation through steam, Drumm battery and diesel trains. He recalls the Line's patrons from 'Boss Croker' to Samuel Beckett and from Brendan Behan to the thousands of men, women and excited children who thronged Harcourt Street station to join the 'Sea Breeze' excursions to Wicklow and Arklow. Illustrated by many of his own photographs, the author captures a bygone era when Station Masters had plenty of time to tend their prize-winning hedges and workers were able to travel home from Dublin and back again during their lunch-break. The author poses the question 'Why was the Harcourt Street Line closed in 1958?' An answer is suggested in the context of that time, but the validity of that answer was continually... (Lees verder) questioned up until 1994 when Luas was born. Few would have believed forty years ago that any kind of train could ever again run along the trackbed of the Harcourt Street Line. Yet, by 2004, Luas Line B will have been built along half its length as far as Sandyford, in what is hoped to be the first stage in the reopening of most of the old railway route by 2008. This is truly a story of 'back on track'.
Pagina's	112
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 20,00

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