Railroads

Once a fabled pirate garrison, the Balearic island of Ibiza has been colonised and continually fought over since the era of the Phoenicians. During the twentieth century it gained its reputation as a countercultural hotbed after it became a melting pot...

When the Stockton & Darlington Railway opened in 1825, it was the first steam-powered railway to carry passengers. Since then there has been no shortage of music connected with trains and railways: orchestral pieces and popular songs describing railway...

Links Geotechnics with Railway Track Engineering and Railway Operation Good railway track and railway operations depend on good geotechnics, in several different ways and at varying levels. Railway Geotechnics covers track, track substructure, load...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909328983Author Kevin RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Noodle BooksPublisher Crecy Publishing

The London Underground Electric Train tells the story of the development of electric traction on the London Underground railways. It combines technical knowledge, historical context and practical experiences. It covers the history of underground lines...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913555078Author Michael SwiftFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Unique BooksPublisher Unique Publishing Services Ltd

In 1904, when Leicester Corporation opened its state-of-the-art electric tram network, it enjoyed a monopoly on routes and convenient central terminal points. But soon the first small independent motor bus companies became active, and by 1921, Midland...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857944563Author David MatherFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Joint Operations Around Manchester and in South Yorkshire, is the latest volume in a series of books by Robert Pixton, covering the lines across the Pennines, especially those of the former Great Central. This volume looks at the joint lines that once...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385698726Author Stephen BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Doubleday CanadaPublisher Random House Canada

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909328952Author Kevin RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Noodle BooksPublisher Crecy Publishing

The Kinver Light Railway once linked the Black Country to Kinver, an inland resort to which local people flocked on high days and holidays. On some occasions over 20,000 people were carried by tramcar in one day! Part conventional street tramway, part...

For almost 50 years, High Speed Trains (HSTs) have been the mainstay for express services for many operators in the UK. While they were used extensively by British Rail - even being dubbed the saviour of British Rail' - these trains have been used by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338195Author Paul HaywoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 175mm * 240mm * 4mm

In the early 1980s, Ravenscraig steel works was the biggest source of rail freight north of the border, handling iron ore, coal, lime and scrap, as well as semi-finished and finished products. Opencast coal was thriving and would even lead to some lines...

The picture below of a Castle class locomotive, since preserved, illustrates Kevin McCormack's first love: the Great Western Railway and the Western Region of British Railways. Living almost all his childhood on the Western in Ealing, it was perhaps...

Since the mid-nineteenth century the East Coast Main Line has been one of the major routes from London to northern England and to Scotland. It has seen some of the greatest achievements in the railways, most notably the 'Flying Scotsman' becoming, in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909431386Author Roland BeierFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Platform 5 Publishing LtdPublisher Platform 5 Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858952697Author John StrettonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857945072Author John FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 902gDimensions(mm) 238mm *...

A. Aubrey Bodine's archive of train photographs chronicling mid-twentieth-century rail transportation. A. Aubrey Bodine, newspaper photographer, pictorialist, modernist, and documentarian, was a Baltimore Sun feature photographer from 1924 to 1970. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858952857Author William AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910356500Author Roger DarsleyFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

The Somme sector of the Western Front was held by French forces until early 1916, when the British and Dominions Third and Fourth Armies moved into the northern part, before the joint First Battle of the Somme from July to November 1916/. In 1917, with...

Running a railway is a complex business, constantly throwing up drama, misadventure and the unexpected. Geoff Body and Bill Parker have collated a rich selection of railwaymen's memories and anecdotes to create an enjoyable book of escapades and mishaps,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910356067Author Roger DarsleyFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

When British Railways (BR) was privatised in April 1994 some of the freight companies were bought by English Welsh Scottish Railways (EWSR), which immediately reviewed the mixed locomotive fleet and led to the decision to purchase 250 locomotives from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853617389Author Andrew HajduckiFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

This new history reveals the previously untold story of why and how trains have been used to transport the dead, enabling their burial in a place of significance to the bereaved. Profusely illustrated with many images, some never previously published,...

Britain is a country in love with its railway past. Nowhere else do the workhorses of the age of steam exert such a pull; in no other country is the nostalgia for the days when the railways extended to every corner of the kingdom so strong. However, the...

Looking Back at Class 24 & 25 Locomotives takes a closer look at these plucky and versatile Type 2 locos in a full-colour photographic album. The images follow the locomotives from their introduction in the late 1950s and throughout their service years,...

L N E R 4-6-0 Tender Mixed Traffic Locomotives covers the design, construction, operation and performance of all 4-6-0 locomotives that ran on the London & North Eastern Railway between 1923 and 1947 and the LNER designed engines that ran on BR's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857944730Author David MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

The first cranes mounted on railway wheels were hand-operated, but by the mid-nineteenth century several builders had fitted steam engines and boilers to enhance lifting capabilities, though initially these machines were not self-propelled, but merely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780711038561Author Colin MarsdenFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Ian Allan PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625451170Author Beth Anne KeatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Fonthill Media LLcPublisher Fonthill Media LLcWeight(grams) 621gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853616580Author John HoldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854144799Author Andrew EmmersonFormat PaperbackImprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853616528Author Colin G. MaggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

The Mallaig Extension was approved in 1894 to provide a continuation of the West Highland route for the benefit of the fishing industry on Scotland's west coast. It revived, more ambitiously, the Fort William to Roshven line lost in 1889. With...