Railroads

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...

George and Robert Stephenson's Rocket, is arguably the most enduring silhouette in railway history. But why was Rocket that special? And why does the surviving locomotive look so unlike the striking yellow image that we are familiar with from books,...

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

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 9781857942767Author John StrettonFormat PaperbackImprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

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 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

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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...

Illustrated with 200 photographs, this book depicts the rich scenery and history of the old Western Dunbartonshire railway, which stretched from Clydebank with its shipyards and other heavy industries to the north end of Loch Lomond, now part of...

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

Rex Conway's first book, Rex Conway's Steam Album, was a wonderful miscellany of images that introduced a remarkable archive of railway photographs. This book takes the reader on a steam-hauled journey on the Southern Region throughout its journey around...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627007948Author Jim WrinnFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Kalmbach MediaPublisher Kalmbach MediaWeight(grams) 1116gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 20mm

CELEBRATING FIFE'S RAILWAYS. By the end of the nineteenth century Fife, like most of central Scotland, had a fairly extensive railway network serving the towns and country, moving the people and products of its varied industries and agriculture around...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854143877Author Michael WelchFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840337594Author Neil BurgessFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 174mm * 240mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853616627Author Colin StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901706741Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

Following on from his popular series examining industrial steam in regions of the UK, Gordon Edgar looks at a series of fascinating workings around the world during the final days of steam in industry. Numerous globe-trotting trips in the latter part of...

Selby was an important location from the earliest days of the railways, with the arrival of the Leeds & Selby Railway in 1934. Over the succeeding years it became an important nodal point, with the opening of railways to Market Weighton and Driffield, to...

The Channel Tunnel Rail Link is Britain's first dedicated high-speed railway line and its first major railway-building project in more than a century. Running from London's newly refurbished St Pancras International to the mouth of the Channel Tunnel,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840337907Author Hugh OramFormat PaperbackImprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853612544Author Robert WesternFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910356432Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

L M S & L N E R Steam Locomotives, is the result of over two decades of photographing steam locomotives in action in many parts of Britain covered by the former LMS and LNER Railway Companies. They were the two largest of the 'Big Four' Railway...

The earliest railways were built for industrial uses, coal being the principal commodity carried, perhaps from the pit to a dockside or canal for onward transport. After the passenger railway came onto the scene, industrial railways continued in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912050697Author Tom FerrisFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg Limited

When British Railways (BR) initiated its Modernisation Plan in 1954 it had little experience of diesel locomotives thus initiated a Pilot Scheme to trial combinations of the three elements comprised within a locomotive the engine, transmission and body. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853617136Author Stanley C. JenkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

The first railway to penetrate Sussex was the Brighton Line of the LBSCR. From this beginning, lines spread out along the coast. Over the succeeding years further lines stretched across out the rest of the county, all built by the 'Brighton', which was...

The North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) is one of the most popular heritage railways in Britain. Since 1973 it has transported hundreds of thousands of visitors in preserved steam and diesel-hauled trains between Pickering and Grosmont through an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906919696Author John NicholasFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Irwell PressPublisher Irwell Press

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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

The era of the steam locomotive at work in the city of Plymouth evokes many memories. This was Great Western territory, but the Southern played a part as well. Besides sharing a common station, each company had its own terminus and locomotive sheds...