Railroads

With tracks and trackage rights that cover more than half of the states in the union, the Burlington Northern & Santa Fe is one of the true giants not just of the United States, but of the entire global rail scene. From the vast mileages of the Trans-Con...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901706321Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

Gordon D. Webster's latest title examines the renewal - and revival - of railways in the north of England. In 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic changed the role of train travel in Britain forever. Gone were the swarms of rush-hour commuters to the city and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906419646Author Mike JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Noodle BooksPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908174475Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton PressWeight(grams) 480gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 168mm *...

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The London, Brighton & South Coast Railway evokes many different images, for it was essentially a railway of contrasts - for some it represented holidays to the South Coast resorts of Brighton, Eastbourne, Hastings and Worthing that were all in their...

By the early years of the twentieth century, the development of rail transport in South Wales had produced an intricate network that owed its origins to several factors that came into play in the previous century, such as the demand for iron ore,...

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...

Narrow Gauge in the Tropics is the first comprehensive history of railways and tramways in the Dutch East Indies (modern Indonesia) from breaking ground in 1864 to the invasion of the Japanese during World War II.During the mid-19th century under...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857944723Author Alan ClarkeFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media GroupDimensions(mm) 169mm * 238mm * 9mm

Wryly humorous and quintessentially British, Three Men and a Bradshaw collects the previously unpublished holiday journals of John Freeman, who travelled Britain with his brothers during the 1870s. Each year the trio would settle upon a destination, buy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909328419Author Mike KingFormat PaperbackImprint Noodle BooksPublisher Crecy Publishing

Self-propelled carriages were a major innovation at the beginning of the twentieth century, and the GWR was quick to develop a large number of steam motor cars to link farms and scattered villages across the South West to the new branch lines. Their...

The North Wales landscape contains everything from steelworks and collieries to national parks and seaside resorts. Thus, there was plenty of traffic to interest the various railway companies that would be established in the area. The main reason for a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910356722Author Adrian HartlessFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853617556Author C. JudgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 210mm * 142mm * 6mm

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857945911Author Jim Knight & Wyn HobsonFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906419622Author Kevin RobertsonFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Noodle BooksPublisher Crecy Publishing

The Scarborough & Pickering Railway line was opened on 16 July 1885. Having first been mooted 1848, it arrived three years after the opening of the York-Scarborough line, which branched out at Rillington and joined the hitherto independent...

English Electric Class 20 locomotives once operated over virtually the entire rail network of Scotland. They were introduced to the Highlands in the late 1950s and are probably best remembered for working local freight traffic or working in pairs pulling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857945300Author Horton PFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854144072Author Michael WelchFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

R.J. (Ron) Buckley's photographs show the changing locomotive scene taking place throughout the counties of Northumberland, Durham and Yorkshire, illustrating from the later 1930s those pre-grouping classes that were still working. These included the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857943641Author Tom IngallFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Long before Brexit, the Common Market and even the Commonwealth, Britannia truly did rule the waves. Perhaps more unsung is the fact that she also ruled the rails over much of the world, for Britain's engineers effectively exported the Industrial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909328600Author Jeffery GrayerFormat PaperbackImprint Noodle BooksPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909431515Author Robert PritchardFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Platform 5 Publishing LtdPublisher Platform 5 Publishing Ltd

Remembering the romance of a bygone era, with all the dirt, grime and risks the job entailed! Fast train fireman Ken Issitt worked on the footplate from the late 1940s to 1960, experiencing firing some of the greatest locomotives from the Flying Scotsman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909328679Author Paul CooperFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Noodle BooksPublisher Noodle Books

The first transcontinental railroad in the USA was completed in 1869. In the following years, until the turn of the twentieth century, many more railroads were built by different companies. Passenger trains declined from the 1950s and today there is only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809877Author Roger SilsburyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857946000Author Henry ConnFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910356364Author Roger DarsleyFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press