Railroads

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840335187Author Bernard ByromFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 174mm * 240mm * 4mm

The mountains of Alberta and British Columbia in western Canada have always challenged the resolve of the railways that worked their way west, opening up the country. It was a new frontier that soon tested man and locomotive as trains crossed through a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854144751Author Jim ConnorFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908174291Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

Follow the evolution of the rail legacy of the Canadian Prairies from the arrival of the first engine on a barge to today's realities. Rails Across the Prairies traces the evolution of Canada's rail network, including the appearance of the first steam...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781548481568Author Colin AldworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909328631Author Kevin RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Noodle BooksPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901706918Author David EdgeFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853615712Author Donald CattanachFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 210mm * 147mm * 12mm

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 9781901706369Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton PressDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 11mm

To celebrate its 150th anniversary, this book endeavours to capture in pictures the beguiling character of the Metropolitan Railway, which started as the world's first underground railway between Paddington and Farringdon, but grew to create iconic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909328761Author Kevin RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Noodle BooksPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840337747Author Neil BurgessFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 274mm * 210mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906520970Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

In 1963 Dr Beeching's infamous report signalled the end for over 15,000 miles of track, a third of Britain's stations, and for 70,000 jobs, as well as making irrevocable changes to the way of life of many consumers. Much misery was caused and Beeching's...

A. Aubrey Bodine's archive of train photographs chronicling mid-twentieth-century rail transportation. A. Aubrey Bodine, newspaper photographer, pictorialist, modernist, and documentarian, was a Baltimore Sun feature photographer from 1924 to 1970. This...

Drivers leaving the M1 at the Tinsley viaduct can still pass the buildings where the Yorkshire Engine Company constructed and repaired locomotives for a hundred years. Founded in 1865, the company outlived many of its competitors and dispatched its last...

For the first quarter of the twentieth century, trams constituted the main workhorses of the public road transport system before Birmingham Corporation buses eventually replaced them completely. 1868 brought the formation of the General Omnibus Co. which...

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 9781854144300Author Mike HorneFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

Long before Wyoming was officially part of the union, the Wyoming Territory played a crucial role in westward expansion of the United States as the first transcontinental railroad was built into the area by Union Pacific in 1862, bound for a meeting with...

It is now more than thirty years since two words synonymous with Diesel Multiple Units became part of railway parlance - 'Pacers' and 'Sprinters'. The Class 142 Pacers were introduced in the mid-1980s and, despite almost continuous criticism as to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908174819Author Richard AddersonFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910356265Author 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 9780853617365Author Bob YateFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853612025Author Peter PayeFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 210mm * 147mm * 14mm

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. ...

Steam on Britain's railways ended in 1968 - and the fifty years since have been a period of controversy and debate; has it been a time of progress and development, or under-investment and political meddling? Some would say that Beeching's cuts led to an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890249703Author Trains MagazineFormat PaperbackPage Count 319Imprint Kalmbach Publishing CompanyPublisher Kalmbach Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 862g

On 21 May 1969 Dr Richard Beeching officially reopened the railway between Buckfastleigh and Totnes in south Devon as the Dart Valley Railway. This former GWR branch line had been closed by British Railways in 1962, although the passenger service had...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858952949Author John Stretton and Tim MaddocksFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

The North Eastern Railway underwent extreme change after the outbreak of war in August 1914. Within months, the company raised its own battalion of men and was the only railway company to do so. The NER also set to work adapting to the changes and...

In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the Transcontinental Railroad, few were prepared for its seismic aftershocks. Once a hodgepodge of short, squabbling lines, America's railways soon exploded into a titanic industry helmed by a pageant of...

The narrow gauge railways of Britain have seemingly had the gift of choosing some of the country's most beautiful scenery through which to run. The Leek & Manifold Valley Light Railway was no exception, running for eight winding miles through the valleys...

The railway network within Birmingham has long been important for the movement of passengers and freight to serve the centre and its suburbs, and as the road network around Birmingham has become more congested, the railways in the city have, once more,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873793237Author 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 9781857945645Author John HillierFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group