Railroads

The railway system that makes up Northern Ireland Railways was formed in 1967 and remains open to this day despite threats of closure and the devastating effects of the 'Troubles'. This new book records its history through the eyes of the author, an NIR...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909328334Author Kevin RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Noodle BooksPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937684211Author The Reading CompanyFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Periscope Film LLCPublisher Periscope Film LLCWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906419264Author David HammersleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Noodle BooksPublisher Crecy Publishing

Isambard Kingdom Brunel gave Reading an inconvenient station with but a single platform; after four major rebuilds it now has 15. This book documents 175 years of growth; the proliferation of branches and connections; the 'railway mania' of the 1840s;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904474548Author 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 9781858952338Author John StrettonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Past & Present Publishing LtdPublisher Mortons Media Group

Looking Back at Sulzer Locomotives is a full-colour photographic album depicting the various classes of locomotives on British Railways that enjoyed Sulzer power. Inside we cover Classes 47, 44, 45, 46, 33, 27, 26, 25, and 24, not forgetting the seldom...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873793084Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

O.S. Nock continues his account of the GWR 4-4-0s with a further look at G.J. Churchward and his programme of modernisation and standardisation, particularly in boiler design, and his introduction of the 'County' class - the last of the new GWR designs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956358585Author L. P. LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint TGR Renascent BooksPublisher TGR Renascent BooksWeight(grams) 489gDimensions(mm) 255mm *...

Anthony Burton has travelled from the Highlands of Scotland, to the south west of England in pursuit of his passion for the steam engine in all its different forms. He has travelled on narrow gauge railways in Wales and enjoyed the splendour of main line...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901706864Author Edwin CourseFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

The Midland Railway Society's Collection was started by Roy F. Burrows in the 1940s and is now generally recognised as a railway collection of national significance; it is devoted to one particular pre-Grouping railway company - the Midland - up to 1922...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935700128Author Burnham Parry & CoFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Periscope Film LLCPublisher Periscope Film LLCWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854143433Author Capital TransportFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

As the Rover's name suggests, the north of the area ranges from Cardiff and Bristol (close to the Severn) to Swindon and Cheltenham, then extends down to the Southampton area (on the Solent) with a coastal stretch from Portsmouth as far as Weymouth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857945485Author John LeggFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

In the 1950s there were still train services to most parts of the country, and steam was everwhere. Many of the locomotive types used in Scotland never ventured south of the border. So from 1952 Brian Morrison set out to record every locomotive class...

This book is the second in the series of International Railway Memories titles from the publishers of Locomotives International magazine. Using archive colour photographs from the collection of the renowned railway photographer and historian Allan C...

On Christmas Eve 1801, Cornish mining engineer Richard Trevithick tested the first steam locomotive on the road. Though it was short-lived, exploding four days later, this was the beginning of the railway age in Britain. By the end of the 18th century,...

When thinking of railways in Merseyside, some people will think of the extensive third-rail Merseyrail commuter system. Although prominent in the whole county and beyond, the area is regularly served by seven TOCs and three FOCs, which, certainly with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857943535Author John StrettonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

The Southern Railway, today headquartered at Chennai, Tamil Nadu, is the earliest of the seventeen zones of the Indian railway that is vital in connecting the different regions of this vast country. Originally, it dates from British rule in India when...

Although separated from the United Kingdom by the twenty-one miles of English Channel, the continental railway network has always been a draw for British rail enthusiasts. With a combined network covering some 202,000 km there is a huge network for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910356203Author Network RailFormat PaperbackPage Count 1800Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900340885Author Andrew ShimminFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Locomotives InternationalPublisher Mainline & Maritime Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738560014Author Thad Hillis CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904474029Author 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 9781857945850Author Graham NicholasFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

The Bluebell Railway was the premier preserved line in the thirty -year period covered in this book. Busy as he was with recording working BR s team in the mid- sixties, David Christie's first visit to the line was by train in 1964 and then from 1967...

The pictures in this book were chosen from the many hundreds of 35mm colour slides Bill Reed took on and off the route stretching from London to Aberdeen. Station scenes, views on works and in sheds are featured. They roughly cover a period from 1951 to...

Historical Railways around the World is a carefully curated selection of vintage railway photos from all around the world. It was composed in the spirit of the time-honoured phrase that a picture is worth a thousand words, and transports the reader back...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840337990Author David RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858952826Author John StrettonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

DB Cargo emerged from the government's sell-off of the rail freight sector in the mid-1990s. It has gone through many changes of name and branding since those early post-privatisation days. Like other companies, it has suffered from the dramatic downturn...

In Tim Bryan's Great Western Swindon the reader was taken on a tour of both inside and outside the GWR workshops at Swindon, which dominated the history of a town for almost 150 years. Since its publication, the collection from which the images were...

Bon vivant, railroad historian, photographer, pioneering food critic, chronicler of New York's cafe society, and noted newspaperman, Lucius Beebe (1902-1966) was an American original. In 1938, with the publication of High Iron: A Book of Trains, he...

It was a railway just waiting to be made. The capital, London, was in the east; Bristol, second city in the land, 110 miles to the west or a sea journey of 672 miles. By the late 1820s, technology had improved to a state where the very latest form of...

The railways of Spain and Portugal saw steam locomotives working on the main lines until the late 1970s, although in Spain several mining companies still employed steam into the 1980s. Iberian railways were unusual in that they used a wider gauge of 5...