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Journal articles on the topic "Great Western Railway (Firma)"

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Fletcher, Nigel, Matthew Brown, and Tarek Sadek. "Great Western railway electrification, UK: Patchway tunnels." Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil Engineering 173, no. 6 (November 1, 2020): 37–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/jcien.20.00021.

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Griffiths, Joanne, Ashley Jordan, and Simon Gardner. "Great Western railway electrification, UK: testing and commissioning." Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil Engineering 173, no. 6 (November 1, 2020): 55–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/jcien.20.00012.

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Jackson, Russell, Howard Elliot, Philip Cooke, Roger Squance, James Drury, Jon Thompson, Paul Hackett, and Toby Owen. "Great Western railway electrification, UK: civil engineering works." Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil Engineering 173, no. 6 (November 1, 2020): 29–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/jcien.20.00030.

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Channon, Geoffrey. "Book Review: History of the Great Western Railway." Journal of Transport History 7, no. 2 (September 1986): 104–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002252668600700213.

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Hoadley, Steven. "Steam--The Museum of the Great Western Railway, Swindon." Technology and Culture 42, no. 4 (2001): 764–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2001.0163.

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Baimpas, Nikolaos, Peter Dearman, Simon Warren, Matthew Leathard, Brad Glass, and Garry Keenor. "Great Western railway electrification, UK: pantograph interface model boosts speed." Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil Engineering 173, no. 6 (November 1, 2020): 19–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/jcien.19.00056.

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Deschamps, Emmanuel, and Mike Franklin. "Great Western railway electrification, UK: collectively delivering a sustainability strategy." Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil Engineering 173, no. 6 (November 1, 2020): 5–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/jcien.20.00001.

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Berryman, Marta, and Wales Cheung. "Great Western railway electrification, UK: data challenges and visual solutions." Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil Engineering 173, no. 6 (November 1, 2020): 11–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/jcien.20.00015.

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Esser, Jonathan, and Richard Lethbridge. "Great Western railway electrification, UK: foundations for overhead line equipment." Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil Engineering 173, no. 6 (November 1, 2020): 47–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/jcien.20.00017.

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Bailey, M. R. "Briefing: I. K. Brunel: Engineer of the Great Western Railway." Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Transport 159, no. 2 (May 2006): 57–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/tran.2006.159.2.57.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Great Western Railway (Firma)"

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Bennett, Alan David. "The Great Western Railway and the celebration of Englishness." Thesis, University of York, 2000. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2523/.

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Medcalf, Alexander James. "Picturing the railway passenger as customer in Britain : the Great Western Railway, 1906-39." Thesis, University of York, 2012. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2794/.

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This thesis argues that during the early twentieth century the Great Western Railway changed its attitudes to customers. Previously, passengers were viewed as a captive market needing little encouragement. This thesis finds that around 1900 the company’s attitude shifted; it began to consider passengers as individuals with wants and desires that required satisfaction. During the next forty years, the GWR continued to hone its strategies in an effort to become customer orientated. The reasoning behind this and how the company’s marketing strategy was enacted is exposed using overlooked corporate photographs, sources which provide the greatest evidence for a reconceptualisation of attitudes towards customers. The company’s photographs were never merely illustrative or secondary to more commonly analysed sources such as pictorial posters; the taking and publication of photographs was closely supervised by individuals with a developing approach to marketing. This thesis argues that the photographs represent a window onto corporate policy, specifically, that associated with marketing holiday travel to railway passengers. In particular, the sheer amount of varied photographic narratives reveal how the GWR segmented the market, persuading the ‘lover of the picturesque’, the family, women, sportsmen and outdoorsmen to use its holiday services by researching their background and interests. As little is known about railway marketing between 1906 and 1939, with historians vigorously debating whether railway companies rivalled other businesses in their attempts to understand consumers, the different visual techniques, framing devices and use of symbolic content in the photographs means that they should be acknowledged as significant sources. In this sense this thesis builds on attempts to align transport history with the fields of consumption and commercial cultures, heeding calls that there is still much to be done in achieving this marriage.

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Matheson, Rosa Marie. "Women and the Great Western Railway, with specific reference to Swindon Works." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.271050.

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Esbester, Mike. "'Dead on the point of safety' : occupational safety education on the Great Western Railway, c.1913-1939." Thesis, University of York, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.434166.

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In February 1914, the Great Western Railway Company (GWR) observed of its occupational safety education campaign that it was ‘dead on the point of “Safety”’. This statement reveals one of the key themes explored in this thesis: the quote marks surrounding ‘safety’ unwittingly acknowledged the socially constructed nature of occupational safety. The study that follows deconstructs the techniques used by the GWR to convey its understanding of occupational safety to its employees and to the state. The techniques introduced by the GWR in 1913 were recognisably modern in nature, being reliant upon photographs and visual media to transmit ideas, and contributed to the development of the educative campaign in Britain – a subject previously neglected by historians of occupational health and safety. This focus also makes a significant contribution to the field of transport history, which has largely ignored safety in general, and employee safety in particular. Further, in exploring the political economy of safety, through the lens of one of the largest companies in Britain in the early twentieth century, this thesis contributes to business history. Despite the innovative appearance of the campaign, the understandings of ‘safety’ put forward by the GWR were traditional. These understandings were formed within a ‘culture of blame’ towards the employees, in which responsibility for occupational casualty and its prevention ultimately lay with the individual employees. The campaign sought to normalise the existence of occupational casualty, leaving an area of ‘acceptable risk’ in which the railway system could continue to operate without major changes and in which employees would be put at risk. The campaign’s definition of ‘safety’ also contained a disciplinary element, in which the GWR attempted to extend its control over the labour process. This thesis therefore interrogates the concept of ‘safety’ in terms of power relations between Company and employees. In addition, the safety campaign formed a bulwark against the external intervention in managerial autonomy threatened by the state and trades unions. The campaign became proof that the GWR and other railway companies could safeguard their employees, thereby removing the need for intervention. A similarity of outlook between regulator and regulated is observed, which ensured that the safety campaign left control of occupational safety in the hands of the GWR and other railway companies.

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Thompson, Josef Evan Matthew. "A master whose heart is in the land : picturing the tourist utopia of the Great Western Railway 1897-1947." Thesis, University of York, 2011. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.556278.

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This thesis examines the images of landscapes and locations used by the Great Western Railway Company (GWR) in their advertising and publicity material from 1897 to 1947. It argues that the GWR made sophisticated use of such images and used landscape imagery as a way, not only to appeal to a wide and varied audience of tourists and potential travellers, but also to construct a deep historical context for the company; this historical context reinforced the company's authority and echoed their paternalistic management practices at the time. The research challenges the idea that the 'motoring pastoral' of the inter-war period and beyond was a unique phenomenon by demonstrating that the GWR' landscape imagery can be viewed as a 'railway pastoral'. Such a notion pre-dates the widespread introduction of the motor-car and influenced the imagery associated with motoring that was to become so popular from the 1920s on. It argues that the motoring pastoral owes a significant debt to the railway's picturing of landscapes that came before it. The thesis puts forward the concept of the 'tourist utopia' whereby landscapes and locations were portrayed in a highly idealised manner thus highlighting the difference between the experiences on offer to the tourist and the everyday world of work. The tourist utopia of the GWR was characterised by a marked heterogeneity insofar as several differing portrayals of landscapes such as rural, historical or technological, could co-exist within the same geographical location. Such heterogeneity, it is argued, reflects the marketing practice of market segmentation and demonstrates that the marketing of mobility in Great Britain was well developed in the years prior to 1914 and continued to develop during the inter-war period.

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Books on the topic "Great Western Railway (Firma)"

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Jones, Judy. Isambard's kingdom: Travels in Brunel's England. Stroud: Sutton, 2006.

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Rees, Philip. The Royal Road: 150 years of enterprise. Weston Super Mare: British Rail (Western) in association with Avon-Anglia, 1985.

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The Royal Road: 150 years of enterprise. Weston Super Mare, Avon: British Rail (Western) in association with Avon-Anglia, 1985.

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The Great Western Railway. Loveland, Colo: J.V. Publications, 2007.

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The Great Western Railway. Oxford: Shire, 2010.

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Great Western Railway handbook. London: I. Allan, 1986.

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Jessen, Kenneth Christian. The Great Western Railway. S.I: Loveland, Colo. : J.V. Publications, 2007.

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Great Western Railway halts. Bishops Waltham: KRB Publications, 2002.

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Robertson, Kevin. Great Western Railway halts. Pinner: Irwell P., 1990.

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Jack, Gardner. Brunel's Didcot: Great Western Railway to Great Western Society. Cheltenham: Runpast, 1996.

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Book chapters on the topic "Great Western Railway (Firma)"

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Olson, Donald W. "J. M. W. Turner and the Great Western Railway, and John Everett Millais and an Ancient Oak." In Further Adventures of the Celestial Sleuth, 305–30. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70320-6_10.

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Pearce, John HN. "Great Western Railway Co v Bater (1922)." In Landmark Cases in Revenue Law. Hart Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781509912285.ch-005.

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Benidickson, Jamie. "3. Aemilius Irving: Solicitor to the Great Western Railway, 1855–1872." In Inside the Law. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/9781442632912-006.

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Dickens, Charles. "To the Secretary of the Great Western Railway Company, [Early October 1851]." In The British Academy/The Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens, Vol. 6: 1850–1852, edited by Kathleen Mary Tillotson, Graham Storey, and Nina Burgis. Oxford University Press, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oseo/instance.00113231.

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Pole, Felix J. C. "THE CONVERSION OF THE GAUGE OF THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY MAIN LINE." In ENGINEERING WONDERS OF THE WORLD VOLUME I., 108–18. Thomas Telford Publishing, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/ewotwv1.50907.0011.

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"CHAPTER III.EARLY HISTORY OF THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. A.D. 1833–1835. ÆTATIS 27–30." In The life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, civil engineer., 61–78. Thomas Telford Publishing, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/tloikbce.52376.0003.

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"CHAPTER XII. 1872–1878.The Rise Of The Third Class–The Great Northern And London And North-Western Railways’ Joint Lines–Greenore–The Edge Hill Sorting Sidings–The Wigan Disaster–The Brake Trials–The Consolidation Scheme." In The History of the London & North Western Railway, 337–71. Thomas Telford Publishing, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/thotlanwr.52352.0012.

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"CHAPTER XVI. 1891–1902. The Sixth Route To The North–Resignation Of Sir Richard Moon–A Chapter Of Accidents–Death Of Sir George Findlay –The Chelford Disaster–Various Improvements–New Route To Manchester– The “Great Central”–Crewe Tranship Shed." In The History of the London & North Western Railway, 433–58. Thomas Telford Publishing, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/thotlanwr.52352.0016.

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"CHAPTER IX. 1860–1863.THE SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY–PROPOSED JOINT ABSORPTION WITH THE GREAT NORTHERN OF THE MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD AND LINCOLNSHIRE–THE BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY – L.N.W. ENTRY INTO BURTON – THE SHREWSBURY AND HEREFORD RAILWAY–THE MCCONNELL ENGINES–MIDLAND EXTENSION TO LONDON–AND OTHER MATTERS." In The History of the London & North Western Railway, 238–75. Thomas Telford Publishing, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/thotlanwr.52352.0009.

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"Thomas Hardy, ‘Midnight on the Great Western’, in The Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy, 2 vols. (London: Macmillan, 1919), I, p. 483." In A World History of Railway Cultures, 1830–1930, edited by Matthew Esposito, 434. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351211802-66.

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Conference papers on the topic "Great Western Railway (Firma)"

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Hewings, D. "Great western traction system: Modern integration approach." In Railway Electrification Seminar. Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/ic.2015.0124.

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Gallop, M., and S. Pearson. "The Great Western Mainline: Asset management for ageing assets and the challenge of the growing railway." In IET & IAM Asset Management Conference 2012. Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/cp.2012.1902.

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Beade-Pereda, Héctor, Bogdan Barbulescu, and John McElhinney. "St. Philips Footbridge in Bristol." In Footbridge 2022 (Madrid): Creating Experience. Madrid, Spain: Asociación Española de Ingeniería Estructural, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24904/footbridge2022.193.

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<p>In 1840, the inauguration of the Great Western Railway in South England connecting London and Bristol, changed part of the outskirts of Bristol to a major railway hub and home of many rail-related activities. An area behind the station in between the railway, the River Avon and the Bath road, known as Temple Island, became restricted to rail use (workshops, depots or sheds) for more than 150 years, making it inaccessible and unattractive as the railway use decreased. The transformation of this area into a new centrally located neighbourhood is one of the most important urban development projects currently planned in Bristol. The new St Philips footbridge spans the River Avon, contributing to accessibility to the site and increasing the sustainable transport network of the city. The bridge, a 50m-span and 4-m wide steel beam with a forked geometry, seamlessly hosts a ramp for disabled and cyclists and a staircase to maximise functionality. The design approach to generate its shape was at the same time structural, aesthetical, and functional, innovatively solving a complex crossing problem.</p>

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Beade-Pereda, Héctor, John McElhinney, and Bogdan Barbulescu. "St. Philips footbridge in Bristol. A new river crossing for urban regeneration." In IABSE Congress, New York, New York 2019: The Evolving Metropolis. Zurich, Switzerland: International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/newyork.2019.2015.

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<p>The inauguration of the Great Western Railway, the line connecting London and Bristol (United Kingdom, approximately 450 000 inhabitants), in 1840 changed part of the outskirts of Bristol to a major railway hub and home of many rail‐related activities. Due to these activities, an area behind the station in between the railway, the River Avon and the Bath road, known at the time as Temple Island, was restricted to rail uses (workshops, depots or goods, engines and carriage sheds) for more than 150 years, making it inaccessible and unattractive as the railway use decreased.</p><p>The transformation of this area into a new neighborhood in the city center is one of the most important urban development projects currently being carried out in Bristol. The new St Philips footbridge spans the River Avon, contributing to accessibility to the site. The footbridge is an innovative solution to a complex crossing problem: the connection of two banks with a significant elevation difference, and development planned for only one of them in the immediate future. The design should be appropriate for the current site and the future scenario.</p><p>The bridge is a 50m‐span and 4‐m wide steel beam with a forked geometry, seamlessly hosting a ramp for disabled and cyclists and a staircase to maximise functionality. The design approach to generate its shape was at the same time structural, aesthetical, and functional. Thanks to this holistic design approach, the bridge is compact, simple, elegant, and clearly legible for both footbridge and river path users.</p>

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