Books written by Robin Jones
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
superintendent James Pearson, who had worked under Isambard on his initial South Devon scheme as described in the next chapter, designed a type whose spectacular performances easily gave Gooch more than a run for his money.
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Sport and Physical Education in China
Themain campus includes swimmingand diving (50metrepool and separate divingpool), gymnastics (men's hall,women's hall, sport acrobaticshall and artisticgymnastics hall), tabletennis (twohalls with aboutthirty tables),badminton ...
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World's Fastest Steam Railway: London King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley : the Route of the 'Flying Scotsman'
World's Fastest Steam Railway: London King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley : the Route of the 'Flying Scotsman'
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Victorian Steam
Robin Jones looks at the steam engines that made Victorian Britain's railways the envy of the world.
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Letter from Santa Claus
Its the winter of 1949, and five-year-old Robin is very sick with pneumonia.
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Born in Portsmouth on 9 April 1806, there was Brunel the great engineer, who would habitually throw out the rule book of tradition and established practice, and start again with a blank sheet of paper, taking the technology of the day to ...
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History of the Great Central Railway
Author Robin Jones, editor of Heritage Railway magazine, uses an incredible collection of images from Britain's top railway photographers to showcase the very best of preserved steam running in an authentic setting.
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Great Western Railway Pannier Tanks
Further allocations were Taunton in 1961, Swindon again, Bristol and Neath, where it headed trip freight workings to ... It continued in traffic until 6 June 1971, when it was sold directly out of service to the Severn Valley Railway ...
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Sport and Physical Education in China
5–6 and K.Cooper and A.Herren (eds), News, FIFA News, June-July 1996. ... The China News Digest report lists sixteen countries that offer cash rewards to successful Olympic sports people, showing that China offers the third lowest ...
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The Art of Lisp Programming
The book is unique in illustrating the use of Lisp through the development of a realistic project: the design and implementation of a Lisp-based interpreter for the language ABC.
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Machine Code and Better BASIC
Machine Code and Better BASIC
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Freedom Bound
"All stories are based on research from the Runaway Slaves in Britain project by the University of Glasgow."--Page 4 of cover.