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The Great Western Steam Retreat: Chasing the Final Steam Trains in BR's Western Region, Wales and the Welsh Marches by Keith Widdowson
RRP: £16.99£12.94In mid-1964, Keith Widdowson got wind that the Western Region was hell-bent on being the first to eliminate the steam locomotive on its tracks by December 1965. The 17-year-old hurriedly homed in on train services still in the hands of GWR steam power,... -
Devon Traction by Stephen Heginbotham 9781445680194
RRP: £14.99£9.70As the modernisation of the former British Railways moved forward into Railtrack and then Network Rail, various schemes to bring the West Country railway network up to date came - and went! During the last forty or so years, Devon has seen a variety... -
An Illustrated History of LMS Wagons: v.1 by R. J. Essery
RRP: £19.95£14.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906419332Author Bob EsseryFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Noodle BooksPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Mallard: The Story of Britain's Most Magnificent Locomotive by Robin Jones
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658214Author Robin JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 596gDimensions(mm) 246mm *... -
The Tube: Station to Station on the London Underground by Oliver Green
RRP: £9.99£7.67Mind the gap and jump aboard this fascinating history of the world's oldest and greatest underground railway. On seven guided journeys, travel through time and observe at first hand the influence of great Underground architects, such as Charles Holden... -
British Railways Electric Multiple Units to 1975 Hugh Longworth (Author) 9780860936688
RRP: £40.00£29.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860936688Author Hugh LongworthFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
The Cairnryan Military Railway by Bill Gill 9780853617624
RRP: £11.95£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853617624Author Bill GillFormat PaperbackImprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing -
The LMS Princess Coronation Pacifics, The Final Years & Preservation by David Maidment 9781399022620
RRP: £30.00£20.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Railways and The Raj: How the Age of Steam Transformed India Christian Wolmar 9781782397670
RRP: £12.99£8.56India was the jewel in the crown of the British Empire, an Empire that needed a rail network to facilitate its exploitation and reflect its ambition. But, by building India's railways, Britain radically changed the nation and unwittingly planted the seed... -
Anglo-Scottish Sleepers by David Meara
RRP: £15.99£10.85For over a hundred years there have been sleeper trains running to a variety of destinations around the British Isles. The longest running services are those between England and Scotland, which started in 1873. The Scottish sleeper services, now... -
The Scottish Region in the 1970s and 1980s by Andy Gibbs 9781445681894
RRP: £15.99£10.85Scotland has always been an attractive destination for rail enthusiasts - a place with picturesque scenery and a variety of traction scattered across the country, with the BR Blue era offering a wonderful juxtaposition between the grit of the hardworking... -
Scratch-Building Model Railway Tank Locomotives: The Tilbury 4-4-2 by Simon Bolton
RRP: £18.99£12.23This fascinating volume tells you everything you need to know about how to build an 00 gauge Tilbury Tank locomotive or, indeed, any similar type of tank. Written in an engaging, encouraging and easily understable style, this new work is a worthy... -
Southern Way Special 19 Eastleigh Enginemen by Keith Dawe 9781800352612
RRP: £16.95£12.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800352612Author Keith DaweFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
The Woodhead Route by Anthony Dawson
RRP: £15.99£10.85The Woodhead Route from Manchester to Sheffield has achieved almost mythical status, not only thanks to the Woodhead Tunnels, but also because of the unique EM1 and EM2 electric locomotives. Inspired by the first 'Railway Mania' of the 1830s, the... -
North West Railways in the 1970s and 1980s by John Carlson
RRP: £15.99£10.85John Carlson takes a new look at the north-western rail scene. Focusing mainly on the years 1975 to 1985, this collection of around 180 colour and black-and white-images, almost all previously unpublished, takes a look the regions railways in the 1970s... -
Railways and Industry on the Brecon & Merthyr Railway: Merthyr-Pontsicill Junction-Brecon by John Hodge 9781399041089
RRP: £28.00£21.42Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Last Train to Zona Verde: Overland from Cape Town to Angola by Paul Theroux
RRP: £10.99£7.77The Last Train to Zona Verde is Paul Theroux's compelling account of his final African journey.Heading north from Cape Town, through South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Angola, Paul Theroux makes a final journey along Africa's western edge. The end of... -
MOD Railways Michael Hitchen 9781445697987
RRP: £15.99£10.85Across the country at numerous locations the government operated another railway, hidden from the public, behind high wire fences. These were the railways serving the Ministry of Defence. A fascinating collection of sites, with differing gauges, origins... -
Uttoxeter to Macclesfield: Via Leek by Vic Mitchell 9781910356050
£19.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910356050Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press -
The Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway Through Time by Steph Gillett
RRP: £15.99£10.85Almost the entire network of the former Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway system closed at the end of February 1959. Some short sections of the railway were retained for passenger services until the mid-1960s and freight continued to run on a few... -
Railways Remembered: North East England by Martin Jenkins 9781800352759
RRP: £22.50£15.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800352759Author Martin JenkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Bluebell Railway: Sixty Years of Progress 1960-2020 by Colin Tyson 9781445688428
RRP: £15.99£10.85Opened in 1960, the Bluebell Railway was the very first standard gauge former British Railways line in Britain to be taken over by volunteers, having seen the success already achieved at the narrow gauge Talyllyn and Ffestiniog Railways in Wales. ... -
On The Slow Train: Twelve Great British Railway Journeys by Michael Williams
RRP: £10.99£7.77'A trip back in time' DAILY TELEGRAPHA love of railways, a love of history, a love of nostalgia.______________________________Get ready to board the slow train to another era, to a time when travel meant more than hurrying from one place to the next. On... -
Abandoned Train Stations by David Ross
RRP: £19.99£14.65Mysterious ghost stations forgotten beneath the cities of Paris and London; desolate grand rail hubs in the Pyrenean mountains; metro stations in China that terminate in a wasteland; Abandoned Train Stations looks at some of the thousands of disused... -
Dorset Railways Through Time by Mike Phipp 9781398108547
RRP: £15.99£10.85Dorset has always been an important railway county, catering for holidaymakers heading to the resorts of Bournemouth, Swanage and Weymouth. As part of the mid-nineteenth-century desire for railways to reach many parts of the country, a line from... -
Lancashire's Railways: 1978-present by Martyn Hilbert 9781398114715
RRP: £15.99£10.85Martyn Hilbert’s colour photographs record the changes on the railway network around Lancashire from 1978 to the present day. Spanning the end of the regional BR Rail Blue era, through sectorisation and privatisation, this book captures the huge variety... -
Scottish Railways in the 1960s by Michael Clemens 9781781557617
RRP: £22.00£16.84Scottish Railways in the 1960s makes a broadly clockwise journey around the country visiting many long-closed railways, branch lines, a few industrial locations, plus the locomotives that worked over them. Locations seen include: Alloa, Alva,... -
The Corris Railway: The Story of a Mid-Wales Slate Railway by Peter Johnson
RRP: £19.99£14.68One of Wales' oldest narrow gauge railways, the 2ft 3in gauge Corris Railway was built to carry slate from several quarries in the Dulas valley to wharves on the river Dyfi. At first forbidden to use steam locomotives or to carry passengers, it overcame... -
Railway Guns of World War II by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £12.99£9.09World War II marked the zenith of railway gun development. Although many of the railway guns deployed at the start of the conflict were of World War I vintage, Germany's ambitious development programme saw the introduction of a number of new classes,... -
On the Iron Road to the Isles: The story of the 'Jacobite' steam service on the West Highland Line by John Hunt
RRP: £45.00£31.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857945362Author John HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 1804gDimensions(mm) 285mm *... -
HST: The Train That Saved Britain's Railways by Andrew Royle 9781910809983
RRP: £20.00£15.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809983Author Andrew RoyleFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy PublishingWeight(grams) 215g -
Industrial Locomotives & Railways of Yorkshire by Gordon Edgar
RRP: £19.99£14.28This seventh volume in the series of regional books examining the industrial railways of England, Wales and Scotland looks at railways of the former Ridings of Yorkshire, a region that once boasted widespread coal mining activities, which strongly... -
North Staffordshire Railway by Anthony Dawson
RRP: £15.99£10.85The 'Knotty' was one of the most beloved of Britain's pre-grouping companies. Centred on Stoke-on-Trent, at one time it carried two-thirds of the country's pottery, as well as partaking in the lucrative coal and iron trades. It began to build its own... -
British Rail Motive Power in the 1980s by Andrew Walker
RRP: £15.99£10.85The 1980s were years of momentous change on Britain's railways. At the dawn of the decade it was still possible to travel on a Sundays-only St Pancras to Manchester Piccadilly service that traversed the Woodhead route, or catch a Deltic-hauled express... -
The Changing Railways of Britain: From Steam to Diesel and Electric by Paul Hurley 9780750989824
RRP: £25.00£18.94After steam finished on the main line on 11 August 1968, something had to take its place; something modern, less difficult to maintain, and that was a natural progression. 'Modernisation' was the word. British Railways - and later privatised companies -... -
London by Design: The Iconic Transport Designs that Shaped our City by London Transport Museum
RRP: £20.00£14.69Curated and designed by the experts at The London Transport Museum, this collection showcases London's 100 greatest transport design icons from the past 150 years.From TfL's exclusive Johnston font; Westminster Station's ground breaking architecture;... -
The Pontop & South Shields Railway Rob Langham 9781398114616
RRP: £15.99£10.85After the financial failure of the Stanhope & Tyne Railroad Company in 1841, a new company was set up to operate the coal-carrying eastern half of the railway that ran from the area around Consett down to South Shields. This new company, the Pontop &... -
Glasgow Underground: The Glasgow District Subway by Keith Anderson
RRP: £15.99£10.85The Glasgow District Subway was second only to London in the UK and was the third underground system to be built anywhere in the world. Originally operated as a cable railway, it was later electrified and the rolling stock from that era continued to be... -
Full Steam Ahead: How the Railways Made Britain by Peter Ginn
RRP: £25.00£17.43The Age of Railways was an era of extraordinary change which utterly transformed every aspect of British life - from trade and transportation to health and recreation. Full Steam Ahead reveals how the world we live in... -
Modern Locomotives of the United Kingdom by Pip Dunn
RRP: £25.00£18.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860936961Author Pip DunnFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing