Railroads

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854144409Author John Day John ReedFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857945737Author John CruxonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 238g

The drama of the Lancashire countryside combined with some of the most powerful diesel and electric locomotives to be found anywhere in Britain. Ross Taylor's photographs cover every aspect of diesel and electric traction in Lancashire, hauling both...

After forty years of adventuring around the world's remaining steam railways, Keith Strickland has compiled the very best of his vast collection of railway photographs. From Austria to Zimbabwe and beyond, this book, the fifth of his photographic albums,...

The Crimean War, fought by the alliance of Great Britain, France, and the tiny Italian Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia alongside Turkey against Tsarist Russia, was the first 'modern' war, not only for its vast scale (France mobilised a million men) but also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857942514Author John HuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

In 1848, a group of ambitious American entrepreneurs decided to embark upon a remarkable engineering feat-they would build a railroad across the Isthmus of Panama to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The creation of the Panama Railroad ranks as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911165248Author Caty RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Solitaire Contracts LtdPublisher Solitaire Contracts LtdWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858952703Author Terry GoughFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

This book is a pictorial record of diesel-powered freight and passenger services throughout the area surrounding the North Wessex Downs. Roughly bounded by Oxford, Swindon, Reading, Pewsey and Basingstoke and covering over 140 route miles, this is a...

At the nationalisation of Britian's railways in 1948, the Scottish Region inherited 1,400 locomotives which had been constructed by the pre-grouping companies. The real veterans among these were a handful of ex-NBR and CR 0-6-0 tender locos dating from...

This volume features photographs taken by David Reed of trains in Europe during the 1970s. The countries visited include France, Portugal, Italy, Austria and Switzerland. The pictures taken in France portray the last steam locomotives on shed at Boulogne...

Steam Odyssey: The Railroad Photographs of Victor Hand is the latest in our celebrated publications on railroad photography. Unlike previous volumes, this book has an international bent: Hand has taken photographs in more than fifty countries over the...

This comprehensive history of North American railroad electrification has been out of print for many years. Now, Indiana University Press is proud to announce its return in an new, updated second edition.For most of the first half of the 20th century the...

By the late 1950s the motive power in use by British Railways, both on passenger and freight services, was changing fast with diesel and electric traction becoming increasingly common. From 1958 onward, new, larger diesel locomotives were being...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858950594Author Laurence WatersFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 399g

The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad's history is one of big booms and bigger busts. When it became the first railroad to reach and then cross the Mississippi River in 1856, it emerged as a leading American railroad company. But after aggressive...

The two decades following the end of the Second World War was a period of great change in Britain. One of the most noticeable changes, apparent throughout the towns and countryside, was the switch from steam to diesel traction. It transformed the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854144294Author Kevin McCormackFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857041630Author Brian SharpeFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857941838Author David HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Looking Back at Riddles & Ivatt Locomotives is a photographic album depicting the designs of both Robin Riddles CBE and Henry George Ivatt. With 190 colour photographs, the book covers all of their British Railways Standard designs, the Austerities and...

Formed in 1864 by the amalgamation of the Oswestry & Newtown, Newtown & Machynlleth, Llanidloes & Newtown and several other railway companies, Cambrian Railways was the largest independent railway in Wales, with a long, winding, single-track main line...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781539384861Author Little London TransportFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

With dramatic and previously unpublished images, Steam in the North: Railways in the 1960s across the North of England is more than just a book of record. It places an emphasis on what it felt like to be there - the emotions, sounds and impressions that...

Here, Ed Fagen, one of the nation's foremost authorities on steam whistles, has provided us with a broadly researched, eloquently written and marvelously witty book, the first and only one on the subject. It includes comprehensive, illustrated chapters...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857944334Author Philip HortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

The Manchester & Leeds Railway was sanctioned by Parliament in 1836 as a railway commencing at Manchester and terminating at Normanton, from where trains would reach Leeds via the North Midland Railway. Although Leeds is only 35 miles from Manchester,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857944143Author Chris HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Glory Days: Western Region Steam Around London is a photographic tribute to the former Great Western Railway (GWR) in the post-war years up to the end of Western Region (WR) steam on 31 December 1965. There was certainly a great deal of glory to be...

Between 1835 and the 1850s, railway mania blossomed around Britain. Crime emerged as the railways developed, at first opportunistic crimes such as fare evasion and robberies, but gradually more inventive forms evolved, notably the minor clerk Redpath in...

The heritage railways of Britain have taken preserved steam into a new golden age. All over the country enthusiasts flock to lavish love and attention on the preserved railways and relive bygone eras, especially the ever-popular 1940s re-enactments. But...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857944655Author Mike HeathFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media GroupDimensions(mm) 169mm * 238mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857945447Author Paul StanfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media GroupDimensions(mm) 238mm * 172mm * 14mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858951966Author Ted GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Looking Back at Stanier Locomotives is a photographic album depicting the designs of Sir William Arthur Stanier, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway from the 1930s. With an extensive selection of colour photographs taken...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857943696Author Nigel AdamsFormat 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 9781906008239Author John OrganFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

The railways of the Isle of Man offer a fascinating insight into public transport in the Victorian era. This small island in the Irish Sea is home to no fewer than seven operating railways and tramways, as well as a transport museum and railway relics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873793534Author Dave JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press