Railroads

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

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...

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 9781858950594Author Laurence WatersFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 399g

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...

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 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...

Over the course of several volumes, Allen Jackson offers an array of never Allen Jackson before published photographs to lavishly illustrate the story of signalling in the principal constituents of the LNER - continuing here with the Great Central...

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

Authorised on 8 May 1833, the London & Birmingham Railway was one of Britain's first great trunk lines. Engineered by Robert Stephenson (1803-1859), the L&BR line was regarded at the time of its construction as 'the Eighth Wonder of the World'. The route...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858951454Author Roger SiviterFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

The author came to London from Lancashire as a nine-year old having developed an interest in his local buses and Blackpool trams at a very early age. He remained in south-west London living in the Wandsworth and Wimbledon areas for the next 45 years. As...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738548029Author Allan C LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...

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 9781909328235Author John C MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Noodle BooksPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853617617Author Colin G. MaggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143426752Author Bibek DebroyFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Portfolio IndiaPublisher Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd

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 9781857942644Author Paul ShannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Sixties Spotting Days Around the Scottish Region is a photographic album in full colour, depicting the 1960s with coverage of both steam locomotives and the new traction that was taking over during that great period of change on our railways. These...

Praised by the Chicago Tribune as "thoroughly and compellingly detailed history," Volumes I and II of Maury Klein's monumental history of the Union Pacific Railroad covered the years from 1863-1969. Now the third and final volume brings the story of the...

This is James Waite's second book for Pen & Sword about narrow gauge railways. He has travelled extensively in search of interesting, and often obscure, railways in remote locations. His previous book looked at the narrow gauge scene around the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909328211Author Mike JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Noodle BooksPublisher Crecy Publishing

Among the many lines that branch all around the East of England, there are some that can be seen diverging from stations that are never used by the train operating companies. These lines head to hidden gems within the East of England known as preserved...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910415306Author Ken CordnerFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Key Publishing LtdPublisher Key Publishing Ltd

The Pennine ridge - 'England's backbone' - has provided a dramatic backdrop to the steam locomotive for nearly 180 years. Armies of navvies, commanded by engineers such as George Stephenson, Charles Vignoles and Joseph Locke, battled against...

Crossroads of a Continent: Missouri Railroads, 1851-1921 tells the story of the state's railroads and their vital role in American history. Missouri and St. Louis, its largest city, are strategically located within the American Heartland. On July 4,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907094606Author Kieth PirtFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Book Law PublicationsPublisher Book Law Publications

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 9781854142139Author Tony HillmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

A saga about one of the oldest and most romantic enterprises in the land-America's railroads-The Men Who Loved Trains introduces some of the most dynamic businessmen in America. Here are the chieftains who have run the railroads, including those who set...

Sixties Spotting Days Around the Eastern Region offers striking colour photographs depicting the 1960s with coverage of the steam, diesel and electric locomotives from that great period of change on our railways. The captions include nostalgic items of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840332872Author David JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

For countless holiday-makers, a trip to the seaside resorts of the West Country used to mean travelling on the network of lines operated by the Great Western and the London and South Western railways. Before the reshaping of British Railways following...

Midnight train rides, head-on freight collisions-there is never a dull moment when it comes to trains. Take a look at America's biggest railroads and meet the thunderous personalities who operate them.In Last Train to Texas, author Fred W. Frailey...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857944167Author David R. JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

The Diesel That Did It tells the story of the legendary diesel-electric locomotive, the FT.As war loomed in 1939, American railroads were on the precipice of railroad transformation. In an obscure factory in La Grange, Illinois, a group of gifted...

Viewing Norfolk Southern Railway covers the history of this railroad, beginning with the South Carolina Canal & Rail Road Company, which in 1830 operated the first regularly scheduled passenger train in the United States. Among the many railroads that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954706838Author Max HaymesFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint Music Mentor BooksPublisher Music Mentor BooksWeight(grams) 638g