Railroads

Beginning in 1936, just two years after Ron Buckley started what was to be almost half a decade working for the railways, London Midland Steam shows the changes in locomotive power taking place throughout the London Midland and Scottish Railway and its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857944976Author David HindleFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media GroupDimensions(mm) 169mm * 238mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858951614Author Roger SiviterFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Under-maintained and over-worked during the Second World War, Britain's railways emerged from the conflict carrying a 'poor bag of physical assets'. Yet the new government of 1945 saw a need to bring the nation's great industries into public ownership -...

The city of Peterborough stands about 75 miles north of London on the East Coast Main Line (ECML). It is one of the railway's most important interchanges for both passenger and freight traffic; the services north and south are complemented by one of the...

In August 1914 the GWR was plunged into war, the like of which this country had never experienced before. Over the years that followed life changed beyond measure, both for the men sent away to fight and the women who took on new roles at home. Not since...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853615613Author Neil FraserFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 210mm * 147mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858951263Author John BroughtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 173g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906919979Author Ian SixsmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Irwell PressPublisher Irwell Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905505425Author Nigel BrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Kestrel Railway BooksPublisher Kestrel Railway BooksDimensions(mm) 272mm * 215mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906008659Author 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 9781908174550Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton PressWeight(grams) 480gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 174mm *...

The late 1970s and 1980s will be remembered as a time of turmoil in Britain. But against a background of economic and cultural instability, the railways saw revived demand and started to rise from the ashes of the contraction of the 1960s. A legion of...

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...

In this book, the author defines the express stem locomotive on the basis of the mandatory criterion of large drive wheels, and studies its evolution from around 1850 to the last refinements made around 1960, with many wrong turns and great successes...

During the final quarter of the last century a small railway company had the temerity to set up its headquarters at Swindon, right in the GWR heartland, and to drive a standard gauge line north-south through Brunel's broad gauge empire. The interloper...

In Great Britain there existed a practice of naming steam railway locomotives. The names chosen covered many and varied subjects, however a large number of those represented direct links with military personnel, regiments, squadrons, naval vessels,...

Scotland still has hundreds of miles of `dismantled railways', the term used by Ordnance Survey, and the track beds give scope for many walks. Some track beds have been `saved' as Tarmacadam walkway/cycleway routes while others have become well-trodden...

London's rail freight traffic is dictated by the geography of the city. When railways first came to London, each line was built by a different company seeking to link their area to the capital. There was no through service from one side of London to the...

Seventies Spotting Days Around the London Midland Region is a full-colour photographic album depicting the 1970s with coverage of both diesel and electric traction from that great period of change on our railways. The captions include items of news,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910356418Author 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 9781840337631Author W. Stewart WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909431539Author Brian GarvinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Platform 5 Publishing LtdPublisher Platform 5 Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906419806Author Kevin RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Noodle BooksPublisher Crecy Publishing

This is the story of how for more than a hundred years steam power played a vital role in the development of road transport. It all began with tentative attempts to build steam carriages by pioneers such as Cugnot in France and Trevithick in Britain, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857942996Author Paul ShannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854144447Author Maxwell RobertsFormat HardbackImprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908174345Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

CrossCountry Trains Ltd won the right to operate the CrossCountry franchise from 11 November 2007 when the Strategic Rail Authority determined that its bid for the franchise was the best value for money and the most sustainable. CrossCountry operates the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781542874885Author Don BennFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

First introduced in the late 1980s, the Class 442s were like nothing that had been seen before in terms of Southern Region electric multiple units. These stylish and sleek trains were the first electric multiple units capable of reaching 100mph, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854144577Author 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 9781901706857Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

In Folk Tales on the Settle-Carlisle Railway, join the driver and fireman on the footplate of a locomotive. Stand behind a range of levers in a signal box or be one of a gang working on the permanent way, sweating in the summer heat or shivering after a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909328471Author Ron StruttFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858951751Author Terry GoughFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

This second volume to cover the Class 66 takes a look at the Fastline/Direct Rail Services/Colas-operated Class 66/3/4/8/7 locos that were delivered during the mid to late 2000s. This was a time when most of the current locos in use with Freightliner and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909328143Author Jeffery GrayerFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Noodle BooksPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338652Author Paul ChrystalFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 176mm * 235mm * 4mm

Possibly the best-loved and most publicized transport system in the world, the GWR is a legend in the world of locomotives. This detailed history shows just how the GWR earned its moniker, "God's Wonderful Railway."The editors have compiled an incredible...