商品簡介
Books on railway history invariably start with the Stephenson's or with Richard Trevithicks locomotive of 1804, but the story begins much earlier, with the development of steam engines for pumping out deep mines. Ken Gibbs, a retired engineer who served his apprenticeship in the Swindon Works of British Railways, takes a more practical approach to railway history, using its engineering developments to tell the story of the railways. From the first ideas to the development of better metals, manufacturing, technology in wheel casting, improved boilers and valve gears' his book is a refreshingly different approach to the plethora of picture books showing branch lines in days past.
作者簡介
Ken Gibbs' family has long had an association with the Great Western. He started his apprenticeship at Swindon Works in 1944, the story of which is recorded in this book. Ken still lives in Swindon.
