Railroads

Continuing with photographs from Jim Blake's extensive archives, this book examines the second half of the 1970s, when both London Transport and London Country were still struggling to keep services going. This resulted both from being plagued by a...

This book provides a comprehensive study of the planning and building of railways in London's Docklands, reflecting on the past 180 years of railway development. It describes the creation of the enclosed working docks at the start of the 19th Century and...

Railway buildings have always had a fascinating character all of their own, despite many no longer being in operational railway service. This book tells the story of how these buildings evolved alongside the development of the railway in Great Britain...

In this, his second book on Fife's railways, local enthusiast and photographer Michael Mather delves into the past with a selection of photographs mainly from the 1950s and 1960s, but also dating back to the beginning of the twentieth century, along with...

The 1960s saw the last hurrah of steam on the railways – the final period of steam-powered locomotives dominating the main line. This meant that a colourful array of traffic could be found across the length and breadth of Great Britain, and an army of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904474487Author Maurice DartFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909328013Author David ShepherdFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Noodle BooksPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904474739Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton PressWeight(grams) 450g

Margam Servicing Depot was built on a landfill site and opened during March 1964. Its function was to service locomotives operating to and from Margam Knuckle Yard, which was acclaimed as being the most highly mechanised in the United Kingdom when it was...

M&GNJR was a Midlands to East Anglia railway linking towns and villages like a patchwork knitted together by clever business entrepreneurs. It started in the 1850s when there was intense rivalry between railway companies and two rich and powerful...

The British Rail corporate image and its Rail Blue livery was one of the longest-lived colour schemes carried by the trains of Britain in the forty-eight-year life of the nationalised railway network. Launched in 1965, after Beeching, the then new...

Twice voted the top railway journey in the world, the West Highland route to Mallaig (like the Dingwall & Skye and the Callander & Oban) accessed the remote and mountainous west coast of Scotland. The original West Highland line, described here, links...

Great photography of locomotives on the East Midlands railways in the final years of steam traction compiled with thoroughly researched, informative captions, beautifully produced in hardback with rare and previously unseen images in colour and black and...

The 'Claytons' were originally conceived as the British Railways "standard" Type 1 diesel-electric locomotive, superseding other Type 1 classes delivered as part of the 'Pilot Scheme' fleet. The early classes suffered from poor driver visibility, and the...

The ubiquitous Class 66 locomotive first emerged onto the British freight scene in 1998, with many people getting their first close-up look at these engines at the Open Day at Toton in August that year. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the class in...

Robert Ellis James-Robertson (always known as Ellis) was born in Wales but lived at Worcester from the mid-1950s and travelled extensively around the country building up a large railway collection. In the 1960s a few of Ellis's photographs were published...

Churchward's 2 cylinder Saint Class 4-6-0s were arguably one of the most important locomotive developments of the twentieth century. The seventy-seven members of the class were so successful that most of the other railway companies in this country used...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956209269Author Richard FurnessFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint JDF & Associates LtdPublisher JDF & Associates Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809679Author Harold GassonFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing

America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line--the first American railroad--in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908174062Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

Southern Region Steam 1948-1967 contains over 250 stunning colour and black and white photographs of steam locomotives working across much of the South of England. Many areas of interest are featured, including: Eastleigh; Dover; Southampton; Brighton;...

This is one of the new Icon titles from Haynes. Originally published in the classic manual size, this compact format will appeal to trade outlets and gift markets. Published in association with The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust, it explains the construction,...

Comprising one-third of the land mass of mainland Britain, Scotland provided a diverse background for railway photographers to record the end of steam. As dieselisation radiated northward from Southern England, the country became a refuge for locomotives...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913134402Author Paul LawtonFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg Limited

The 'Castle' class 4-6-0 locomotives designed by Charles Collett and built at Swindon Works were the principal passenger locomotives of the Great Western Railway. The 4-cylinder locomotives were built in batches between 1923 and 1950, the later examples...

Since the dawn of the railways, away from the glamour of the main line express, thousands of miles of industrial railway moved raw materials and finished products. From sewage works to sugar factories, all manner of industries were served. These...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909431935Author Andy ChardFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Platform 5 Publishing LtdPublisher Platform 5 Publishing Ltd

The preserved heritage museum railways of Britain are thriving. Not only is there continuing nostalgia for the steam locomotives of a bygone era, but a growing number of diesel locos and multiple units, both in use and under restoration on site, make the...

Class 47s have now been part of the UK railway system for over 60 years. They have been used on every type of train over the years, including front line passenger, freight and charter trains. During the late 1980s and through the following 20 years,...

The 'Big Four' railways had experimented with diesel-powered shunting locomotives from 1933 with the Great Western Railway seeing the advantages of operating diesel-powered railcars, and doing so successfully from the same date. The 1955 'Modernisation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858950884Author David MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 415g

Construction on the Callander & Oban Railway began in 1866, but because of the mountain terrain through which the line passed, especially at Glen Ogle and at the Pass of Brander at Loch Awe, the line did not open until 1880. Designed to link Callander,...

The first of two volumes covering the railways of the South East, this book focuses mainly on Sussex but also includes small sections of Surrey and Kent. It concentrates on locomotive-hauled traffic and details a wide range of trains including...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780711038417Author Jeff GearyFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Ian Allan PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

A fascinating collection of bizarre but true stories from nearly 200 years of railway history. Right from the very start, when George Stephenson's famous Rocket knocked over and killed a government minister at the...

Forty years ago, large areas of Yorkshire and the North East were criss-crossed by freight-only lines, many of them serving the heavy industries that had brought prosperity to the railways decades earlier. Classes 25 and 40 were enjoying their last few...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956209238Author Richard FurnessFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint JDF & Associates LtdPublisher JDF & Associates Ltd

Until 1987, there was still a busy stretch of British main line railway where traditional Victorian operating practices were used to control the movements of both express passenger and a variety of freight trains. At the heart of the former Midland...

This book follows the railway through the eye-catching scenery of the west of the county. Over 180 stunning full-colour photographs take the reader on a journey that starts in St Austell, against the backdrop of the clay workings, before moving on...