Railroads

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 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

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 9780853613695Author Roy WaringFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648270904Author Aymeric I J PerfrementFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Aymeric PerfrementPublisher Aymeric PerfrementWeight(grams) 345g

The Class 47 diesel locomotive was a mainstay of British Rail, with 512 built in the 1960s. As such, they were a daily sight throughout the UK, working express passenger and heavy freight trains as well as more mundane local passenger and wagon-load...

This book is about one ordinary person's efforts, largely carried out single-handedly and with limited funds, to build a model railway layout in his garden that runs just like the real thing. It is based on Brymbo in North Wales, where the GWR and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911262350Author JOHN NICHOLAS GEORGE REEVEFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Irwell PressPublisher Irwell Press

British Rail introduced thirty-one Class 91 locomotives from 1989 onwards. They were built at Crewe Works for use on passenger services on the East Coast Main Line out of London King's Cross. They were designed with a sleek cab at one end, while the...

From Britain's most popular railway historian, a concise, authoritative and fast-paced telling of how the railways changed the world. The arrival of the railways in the first half of the nineteenth century and their subsequent spread across every one...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905505418Author David LarkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Kestrel Railway BooksPublisher Kestrel Railway Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840337846Author David SpavenFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 233mm * 155mm * 18mm

This is the story of the train operating company First Great Western, whose performance rose from being the worst for a long-distance operator in the UK to becoming one of the best in a few short years, and whose passengers felt so disgruntled they even...

In the early 1800s, Ayrshire was already established as a prosperous, mainly rural agricultural county. The realization that there was abundant coal and (to a lesser extent) iron ore deposits to be exploited, together with the coming of the Industrial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905505401Author David LarkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Kestrel Railway BooksPublisher Kestrel Railway BooksDimensions(mm) 274mm * 216mm * 9mm

In the 1970s the introduction of the merry-go-round coal trains required a far more powerful loco, leading to the 3300 hp Class 56 being built. For general freight services, the Class 60 was developed. Both these types suffered from reliability problems...

Swindon Works 1930-1960 is a fully revised and enlarged edition of Working at Swindon Works 1930-1960, first published in 2007. It describes various aspects of the famous railway works of the Great Western Railway, later British Railways Western Region. ...

The story of the most successful of Britain's new private railway companies is one of triumphant business despite the odds. Formed in 1996 after the privatisation of British Rail, this is a modern railway history, and one which reveals the secrets behind...

This book tells what it was like to ride on the trams and what it was like to work on them in their final years. The text is accompanied by over 80 quality black and white photos, many by master of the art Don Thompson, and 25 colour photos.Book...

Paddington is part of a hub of underground stations and is home to the world's most famous bear, named after the station. Revel in the selection of images of Paddington Through Time and see how Brunel's masterpiece has stood the test of time. 'I am...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857946178Author Ray FinchamFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 690g

To the Edge of the World is an adventure in travel--full of extraordinary personalities, more than a century of explosive political, economic, and cultural events, and almost inconceivable feats of engineering. Christian Wolmar passionately recounts the...

Tom Greaves gives his own account of the chaotic introduction of main line diesel locomotives during the late 1950s which was conducted primarily on the suburban network out of London's King's Cross station and with which he was directly involved. There,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858952543Author John StrettonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

A ride on a steam train is a popular family outing. More than 100 heritage railways cater for that demand, capturing the spirit of nostalgia while preserving the engines and equipment of past days of rail travel. Their interests even extend to the modern...

In 2012, Direct Rail Services (DRS) placed an order with Vossloh (now Stadler Rail) for its first Class 68 diesel locomotives. The fleet size has now grown to thirty-four. Their later order was for ten Class 88 locomotives, an electro-diesel variant of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853617211Author Robert WesternFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

By the end of the 1950s, steam had already mostly disappeared from passenger work in the Republic of Ireland, yet it lingered on in Northern Ireland. In fact, it lasted longer there than anywhere else on the main line within the British Isles. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992595609Author Robin BrombyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Highgate PublishingPublisher Highgate PublishingWeight(grams) 345g

This is a photographic tribute to the West Midlands Day Ranger, aiming to show how times have changed over the years in the West Midlands and surrounding areas. The area covered in this volume stretches from Crewe in the north, down to Northampton in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780711037465Author David CableFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Ian Allan PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906419684Author Kevin RobertsonFormat HardbackPage Count 84Imprint Noodle BooksPublisher Crecy Publishing

Transporter Bridges are a legacy of the closing years of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th, and served a brief but important need. The huge increase in road transport, however, quickly rendered them obsolete, and although many were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906419363Author Mike JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Noodle BooksPublisher Crecy Publishing

Liverpool has many railway 'firsts' in the world: an inter-city service, an electrified overhead railway, a large-scale marshalling yard, a deep-level suburban tunnel and one under a tidal estuary. In Britain it can boast of other firsts: an escalator in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904474685Author J. E. ConnorFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

Fifty Railways that Changed the Course of History is a fascinating and beautifully presented guide to the train lines and rail companies that have had the greatest impact on modern civilization. Entries range from the Metropolitan Line of the London...