Railroads

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913555146Author Michael SwiftFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Unique BooksPublisher Unique Publishing Services Ltd

Jeff Vinter, consultant to the BBC's popular Railway Walks series, here guides the walker along ten of the best railway paths in the south of England, ranging from the Camel Trail in scenic north Cornwall to the densely wooded tracks of the Forest of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857946093Author David HindleFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 238g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853616801Author Peter TatlowFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873793947Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

Completed in 1841 and covering a distance of around 118 miles, the Great Western Mainline, affectionately known as Brunel's billiards table due to the flat terrain of the route it follows, links the great cities of London and Bristol. This book covers a...

The Snowdon Mountain Railway is one of the great narrow gauge railways of North Wales, with thousands of visitors travelling to the summit of Mount Snowdon along the line each year. This book covers the history of this historic and interesting line from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911639008Author Jonathan WebbFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 273gDimensions(mm) 196mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873793046Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

Railways Around Rugby: Pre-Grouping to Rail Blue tells the story of change on the railway network in the Rugby area, covering a period spanning from before the Grouping of the Railways in 1923 to the BR Rail Blue era of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. During...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906919627Author John NicholasFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Irwell PressPublisher Irwell Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809686Author Jeremy ClementsFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Oxford Publishing CoPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912213139Author Peter WallerFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg Limited

Early Japanese Railways 1853-1914 is a cultural and engineering history of railway building in Japan during the Meiji era.The importance of early railways in the industrialization of the United States and Europe is a fact all of us are familiar with. To...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853617655Author A. Gordon PirieFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905505104Author David LarkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Kestrel Railway BooksPublisher Kestrel Railway Books

Ordered in 1985, the Class 91 was a joint venture between GEC, Brush and ASEA to deliver a fleet of 140 mph tilting electric locomotives for the East Coast Main Line. Delivered between 1988 and 1991, the thirty-one locomotives ply their trade daily ...

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,...

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 9780853617686Author Robert WesternFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Modelling the East Coast Main Line in the British Railways Era follows the construction of an East Coast Main Line layout in 00 gauge, based on the Little Bytham prototype. Little Bytham, nestled in rural Lincolnshire, is the station nearest to where...

The Earl of Dudley's Railway, also known as The Pensnett Railway, was nearly 40 miles of track stretching in all directions from The Earl's Iron Works (later a steel works) at Round Oak, just outside Brierley Hill. It began life in a spectacular way back...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853616177Author Stanley C. JenkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

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 9781910356166Author John MatthewsFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

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

Though the famous bullet train launched in 1964, many steam engines were still operational in Japan before withdrawal in 1975. These wonders of narrow gauge railway engineering have often gone unappreciated in Western countries - until now. Japan's...

Covering industrial steam throughout the British Isles over several decades, the terrific photographs featured here, captured by David Letcher, document a period of our industrial development that is now long gone. Steam-powered workhorses helped turn...

From 1972 onwards, Andy Sparks sought to capture the different scenes unfolding on the railways of Britain. With his camera at the ready, he travelled wherever and whenever he could, amassing an impressive portfolio of over 1,000 images. The 1970s and...

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

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

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...

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...

Coal and iron making first brought railways to what is now called South Yorkshire. The industrial towns of Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley and Doncaster attracted the Victorian pioneers, who built a myriad of often competing lines to the collieries and...