Railroads

The accomplishments, and initiatives, both social and economic, of Edward Watkin are almost too many to relate. Though generally known for his large-scale railway projects, becoming chairman of nine different British railway companies as well as...

The Liverpool & Manchester Railway was Britain's first mainline, inter-city railway; opened in 1830 it was at the cutting edge of railway technology. Engineered by George Stephenson and his team - John Dixon, William Allcard, Joseph Locke - the...

From best-selling railway expert, Julian Holland, explore Britain's historical railways in All Aboard. The history of Britain's railways is a long and fascinating one, filled with stories of grand endeavours, noted figures and record-breaking...

As the modernisation of the former British Railways moved forward into Railtrack and then Network Rail, various schemes to bring the West Country railway network up to date came... and went! Consequently, the far west of the network from Plymouth to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910356753Author Paul CrookFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

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Many readers will be familiar with Nigel Welbourn's long running series of books, covering lost railways in Britain and Ireland. This new book Lost Railways of the World is the latest by this author on the subject of disused railways. The material for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873793640Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

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As electricity became more widely used to power and light Britain's towns and cities a number of municipal boroughs built their own power stations. In the early years these were inevitably fed by coal, of which the UK had a plentiful supply. In the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854144522Author Jim ConnorFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

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Week after week, the guns of the British expeditionary force battered away at the defences of Sevastopol, eight miles away from Balaklava, the port through which all besiegers' supplies arrived. As autumn turned to winter, rain and frost turned the track...

Early Railways A Modellers Guide will encourage and support the modelling of the earliest period of railway history, from the very beginnings of steam traction at the start of the nineteenth century, up to about 1880; a period which for British modellers...

Part of the West Wales Railways series, this book starts at Clarbeston Road, covers the oil-rich town of Milford Haven, where oil refineries were opened mostly in the 1960s in association with the deep-water port, to accommodate super tankers from the...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956209276Author Richard FurnessFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint JDF & Associates LtdPublisher JDF & Associates Ltd

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906008482Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 95Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

This book examines in words and pictures the huge changes that have taken place in the last 50 years on the British railway network. We see how steam-age infrastructure has gradually given way to a streamlined modern railway. The beginning of the period...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853617327Author Peter PayeFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

The vast majority of Britain's railways were built between 1830 and 1900 which happened to coincide with the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901). By the turn of the Nineteenth/Twentieth Century, over one hundred different railway companies were operating...

Coal-black starless nights, comfort only from the weak glow of station lamps. The velvet silence broken by a series of shrill ringing bells in the signal box, a flurry of activity; levers are pulled, wires sing, signals drop, and silence returns. In the...

Whitland to Pembroke Dock is the latest book in the West Wales Railways series which continues the previous South Wales Main Line series covering the line from the Severn Tunnel through to ends of the main line in West Wales. This volume covers the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658269Author David SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 230gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

The seminal and pioneering London Underground is more than a mass transportation network - it is a style icon, its history involving some of the most important architects and artists of their time. Exploring Frank Pick's vision through the development of...

What was it really like to take the LNER's Art Deco Coronation streamliner from King's Cross to Edinburgh, to cross the Atlantic by the SS Normandie, to fly with Imperial Airways from Southampton to Singapore, to steam from Manhattan to Chicago on board...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905505197Author Nigel BrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Kestrel Railway BooksPublisher Kestrel Railway Books

ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL is famous for the engineering wonders he left behind - from the SS Great Britain to the delights of Paddington and Temple Meads stations, but much of what he designed has been lost. From the ships Great Western and Great Eastern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780711038073Author Ben MuldoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Ian Allan PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853617129Author Stanley C. JenkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

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The astonishing true story of trust, pain, becoming lost, and finding a way back to yourself despite it all'An intimate preservation of a moment in time, full of personality' THE TIMES__________Life is beautiful - even in the dark . . .Oliver Mol was...

This is a new biography of two great British engineering pioneers, who did much to develop the world we now live in. George and Robert Stephenson, were at the forefront of early railways and were at the cutting edge of modern engineering history. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854143044Author Beverley ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

Beginning in 1936, just two years after Ron Buckley started what was to be almost half a decade working for the railways, London Midland Steam shows the changes in locomotive power taking place throughout the London Midland and Scottish Railway and its...

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