Railroads

The B1 Class 4-6-0 locomotive was Edward Thompson's most enduring design. Built from 1942-1952, the class totalled 410 examples and was a familiar sight across former London & North Eastern Railway territory. Thompson's B1s presents many of the engines...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909328754Author Jeffery GrayerFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853617259Author L.T. CathcpoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375727863Author Ted ConoverFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 247gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

In the days when coal was king, an ambitious plan was laid for an east-to-west cross country rail route, connecting the Manchester Ship Canal at Warrington to a new dock near the small east coast village of Sutton-on-Sea. Grandly titled The Lancashire,...

The birth of the railways and their rapid spread across the world triggered economic growth and social change on an unprecedented scale. From Panama to the Punjab, Tasmania to Turin, Blood, Iron and Gold describes the vision and determination of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913390280Author Simon A.C. MartinFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Strathwood LtdPublisher Strathwood Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857944556Author David MatherFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

A thoroughly entertaining history of one of the most daring raids of the American Civil War. On April 12th 1862, during the American Civil War, a group of Union volunteers infiltrated the Confederate stronghold of Georgia and stole a steam engine named...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906520451Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

The final volume in the Regional Tramways' series focuses on the history of tram operation in the London area. Starting the story with the pioneering horse tramways operated by George Francis Train in the 1860s, the book narrates how the various horse,...

`The Last Years of Steam Across Somerset and Dorset' gives an excellent photographic study of yesteryear and the iconic steam locomotive at work. The renowned Somerset & Dorset Railway is covered in detail as are other railway locations across the two...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854144621Author Kevin Nixon Peter LloydFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

In the 1970s and 1980s, the history and heritage of Britain's railways were still plain to see - it was still recognisably the railway of steam locos, pick-up freight trains, isolated stations, parcels trains, semaphore signals and a timetable that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840335194Author Bernard ByromFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 174mm * 240mm * 4mm

Sir Nigel Gresley's V2 Class 2-6-2 locomotive was developed during a period of great success for the London & North Eastern Railway company. The A3 Class and A4 Class Pacifics were breaking records and creating headlines across the globe when the first...

With an aging fleet of Diesel Multiple Units, British Rail sought a low-cost solution to the problem of replacing a large part of their fleet. A series of prototypes were built in the late 1970s and early 1980s, which led to British Rail ordering the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910356760Author Dennis LovettFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853614623Author Neil T. SinclairFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 273mm * 210mm * 8mm

After the end of steam on the Southern in July 1967, the author concentrated primarily on recording the Southern scene, to start with in black and white and then from 1972 in colour. In so doing he built up a huge collection of slides for the period 1972...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853617341Author Taylor M. MinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Over 125 years ago, barely a year and a half after the Tay Railway Bridge was built, William McGonnagal composed his poem about the Tay Bridge Disaster, the poem about Britain's worst-ever civil engineering disaster. Over 80 people lost their lives in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853615651Author G.A. PryerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

This book is the first of a planned series of International Railway Memories titles from the publishers of Locomotives International magazine. Using archive colour photographs from the collection of the renowned railway photographer WJK Davies, held in...

Ron Buckley's photographs show the changing locomotive scene taking place from the later 1930s throughout the East Midlands and East Anglia, illustrating pre-grouping locomotive classes still working across Lincoln, Cambridge, Norfolk, Suffolk,...

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! During the last forty or so years, Devon has seen a variety...

Never before has a comprehensive history been written of the track used by railways of all gauges, tramways, and cliff railways, in Great Britain. And yet it was the development of track, every bit as much as the development of the locomotive, that has...

Arthur Henry Peppercorn, OBE (29 January 1889 - 3 March 1951) was the last Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the London and North Eastern Railway. Peppercorn finished several projects which were started by his predecessor Edward Thompson, but most...

Discovering Britain's First Railways is devoted to the history, rediscovery and exploration of Britain's first railways, examining its network of over 1,500 miles of horse-drawn tramroads and waggonways. This essential guide not only describes their...

The simple and lightweight construction, with minimal land requirements, means that miniature railways can be quite ephemeral in nature. The author, a much published writer on the miniature railway scene, both in the UK and overseas, has put together...

This volume covers the important main line section of line between Carmarthen and Fishguard Harbour, the terminus station opening in 1906 and replacing New Milford (later Neyland) as the previous main line terminus. In 1909 Cunard passenger liners...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860936701Author Ashley ButlinFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909328822Author Gerry NicholsFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909328815Author Kevin RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Noodle BooksPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905505289Author Dave MardenFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Kestrel Railway BooksPublisher Kestrel Railway Books

The Second World War made the greatest demands on the German Reichsbahn (national railway). Year after year, great quantities of war materiel were transported - and almost always delivered. At times the trains rolled over nearly the entire continent of...

Is any disaster really forgotten?It is never forgotten by the survivors who lived through the trauma. It is never forgotten by the emergency services who tried to save the day. It is never forgotten by the relatives of those who never came home.Britain's...

The Chilterns consist of a band of chalk hills to the north-west of London stretching from Oxfordshire to Hertfordshire. It so happened that these hills were directly on the routes of five major companies' routes to the North and Midlands. These were:...

In this visually glorious chronological history, prolific railroad historian and photographer Brian Solomon curates a selection of the world's most significant trains and locomotives over the last two centuries. Hop aboard to see trains and locomotives...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853616962Author Brian L. JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing