BHS Records Series Volumes Junctions at Banbury: a town and its railways since 1850
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1899246614
ISBN 13
9781899246618
Category
Transport
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Publication Year
2017
Publisher
Banbury Historical Society, United Kingdom
Volume
Volume 35
Pages
266pp.
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Abstract
This is a work of both railway history and of local history. It details the growth of the railway network in the south Midlands and analyses the services, both local nd long-distance, offered by the railway companies.It makes extensive use of data from 19th century Banbury newspapers, from census enumerators' returns, timetables, maps and archive photographs.
Where census returns make it possible, the navvies who built the lines in Banburyshire are analysed in detail. Railways delivered coal to Banbury, and goods to be sold in its shops, and took away the products of the town's manufacturers. One chapter deals with ironstone mining in the Banbury region and with the role of the railways in taking ore to distant blast furnaces.
Banbury railwaymen formed one of the largest occupational groups in the town and were involved in many local organisations.
Where census returns make it possible, the navvies who built the lines in Banburyshire are analysed in detail. Railways delivered coal to Banbury, and goods to be sold in its shops, and took away the products of the town's manufacturers. One chapter deals with ironstone mining in the Banbury region and with the role of the railways in taking ore to distant blast furnaces.
Banbury railwaymen formed one of the largest occupational groups in the town and were involved in many local organisations.
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