Railroads

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854142610Author Michael WelchFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853615835Author William J. HatcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

It is curious that the nineteenth-century railway builders should even have thought of a line linking Huddersfield with Sheffield, now known as the Penistone Line, with the risk of all sorts of disasters. As Along the Penistone Line makes clear,...

The 1950s and 1960s was a time of profound cultural and technological transformation. With images and vivid recollections, we journey back to post-war Wales and the Western Region of British Railways. We explore favourite routes and railway places, many...

The pre-Grouping companies were fiercely competitive and would defend any incursion by another company penetrating what they considered to be their 'territories'. Nevertheless, at times they would co-operate. This co-operation resulted in a large number...

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 9781905505357Author Ian WhiteFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Kestrel Railway BooksPublisher Kestrel Railway Books

A comprehensive look at the LMS/BR Class 7 4-6-0 rebuilt locomotives, including the rebuilt Jubilees, the rebuilt Patriots and the rebuilt Royal Scots. The book includes hundreds of photographs and feedback from the original crews that operated the...

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...

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 9781908174369Author Roger DarsleyFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627004558Author Jeff WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Kalmbach Publishing CompanyPublisher Kalmbach Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904474500Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

The Black Country is an area immediately to the west of Birmingham heavily associated with the Industrial Revolution. The townships are fiercely partisan and in typical fashion have fought hard for their railway connections. The main presence was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858952925Author John WhitehouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media GroupDimensions(mm) 238mm * 172mm * 9mm

Following the end of the steam locomotive in normal service, the diesel has become the favourite of many railway enthusiasts. To show something of the diesel types and operations on various international railway systems, Peter J. Green has selected some...

The BR modernisation plan of 1955 envisaged the replacement of steam traction with diesel and electric locos by around 1975. Chief among the requirements was a loco more powerful than the 2,000-hp locos that had been produced before then. The Sulzer...

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 9780853617235Author Peter PayeFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658443Author Mark ChattertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 311gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911262268Author JOHN JENNISONFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Irwell PressPublisher Irwell Press

This illustrated history describes how the two pioneering railways of northern England, the Stockton and Darlington and Newcastle and Carlisle railways, developed from unsuccessful canal proposals and how they, with the ill-fated Stanhope and Tyne...

George and Robert Stephenson are well known names in the canon of railway history. Henry Booth (who designed Rocket's boiler) was the world's first railway manager and was instrumental in the adoption of Greenwich Mean Time. Timothy Hackworth, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906520765Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

Line by Line: Yorkshire is a pictorial guide to the county's railway, showcasing a collection of images captured over several decades. A celebration of both beautiful scenery and elegant engineering, it documents a variety of interesting rail traffic and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909431942Author Ian Beardsley Rhys JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Platform 5 Publishing LtdPublisher Platform 5 Publishing Ltd

Germany, by its very location and size, is host to a vast number of different traction types. The main operator is DB, and they run huge numbers of both freight and passenger workings that still have locomotive haulage. On the passenger side, most main...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908174864Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853617112Author Stanley C. JenkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857944341Author Philip HortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

The North Yorkshire Moors Railway is the UK's leading heritage railway, carrying holidaymakers from the popular seaside resort of Whitby across the spectacular North Yorkshire Moors to the market town of Pickering. The line has been made famous by the TV...

In the 1950s Merseyside was a Mecca for steam enthusiasts; over 400 locomotives were allocated to the seven depots that serviced Liverpool and Birkenhead. This book covers the last twenty years of steam in Merseyside, when the area was the centre of...

London's Underground is one of the best-known and most distinctive aspects of the city. Since Victorian times, this remarkable feat of engineering has made an extraordinary contribution to the economy of the capital and played a vital role in the daily...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840336559Author Neil BurgessFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingWeight(grams) 167gDimensions(mm) 173mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854144331Author Jim ConnorFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

The railway route through the Central Highlands from Perth to Inverness offers a spectacular journey through a variety of landscapes. Initially traversing the pastoral Strathtay as far as Ballanluig, the scenery becomes more dramatic and bleak as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906919474Author Dennis LovettFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Irwell PressPublisher Irwell Press

With 187 top quality, mainly 1950s, photographs and eleven drawings, "Railway Memories No.18" lavishly illustrates the diverse railways that once wove their way around the hills, dales and spectacular coastline of Cleveland, Yorkshire's north east corner...

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,...

The South Yorkshire town of Doncaster has long been a hotspot for railway enthusiasts. Glancing at the railway map, it’s easy to see why. With its prominent position on the East Coast Main Line, it is also an important passenger interchange for a variety...