Railroads

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853615422Author Michael WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 149Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 128mm * 149mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840339598Author Hugh DoughertyFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

There is always a sense of adventure when going on a railway journey. Whether it is aboard the Orient Express from London to Istanbul, or travelling the Transcontinental railroad through the Canadian Rockies to the Pacific coast, or riding the Serra...

This is the second in a new series on the South Wales Valleys by John Hodge, author of the South Wales Main Line series and North and West series, each of four volumes. The South Wales Valleys were famous for coal mining, iron and steel, tinplate works...

The Class 50 locomotives were built by English Electric between 1967 and 1968, and 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the locomotive's debut. Fifty examples were built, and were initially used to haul express passenger trains on the West Coast Main Line...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860936947Author David LarkinFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

RAILS THROUGH WEXFORD is a photographic journey across the two scenic railway routes in the south of the county, which once upon a time connected Waterford city with Wexford town and points further afield, by two different routes. The photographs are...

Mainly covering the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, this collection of images offers a fascinating survey of one of the iconic locomotives of twentieth-century Britain: the Class 40. A common sight in Scotland and the north of England in the latter part of...

Best known as the Titfield Thunderbolt, Lion is one of the most beloved locomotives in railway preservation - transformed from humble luggage engine to film star, this is a Cinderella story. Built in Leeds in 1838 by Todd, Kitson & Laird, Lion is the...

Paddington is one of London's-indeed the world's-great railway stations. Designed basically by Brunel, although others contributed, it has served its intended purpose of providing a starting point and a culmination of countless journeys between the...

Bob Reid's Railway Revolution describes the life and career of the first Bob Reid, always known as Bob Reid One, and the history of the railways since nationalisation. It shows how the organisational changes he forced through when Chief Executive from...

It's about the journey, not the destination.All Aboard-first published in 1995, and here revised and updated-is much more than just a mile-by-mile scenery guide for train travelers. Written both for veteran train travelers and those considering their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853617501Author Stuart EdgarFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 6mm

Bradshaw's Guide of 1863 was the staple book to what's what and where's where for the mid-Victorians and it gives the modern reader a unique insight into the world of the nineteenth-century railway travellers. Built primarily to serve industry and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800352858Author Norman McKillopFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

This book examines in words and pictures the network of British branch lines and other secondary routes that survived the mass closures of the 1960s. While nearly 4,000 route miles were lost between 1963 and 1970, the cuts were less severe than they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853617457Author Colin G MaggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

The Chester & Holyhead Railway was incorporated by an Act of Parliament in 1844, and the promoters were thereby empowered to build an 85-mile line along the North Wales coast, the engineer for the line being Robert Stephenson. The C&HR was, from its...

Newly opened by Queen Elizabeth II herself, discover the history and secret stories of the people who've lived above London's newest trainline.Crossrail, or the 'Elizabeth' line, is just the latest way of traversing the very old east-west route through...

August 2020 marked the fortieth anniversary of the opening of the first section of the Tyne & Wear Metro between Haymarket and Tynemouth. It is an exciting time for the system, with a new fleet of trains about to be ordered, and extensions to the network...

Shown are Soviet armored trains as used during the Russian Revolution, the Russian Civil War, and World War II.Book InformationISBN 9780887409172Author Wilfried KopenhagenFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer...

The London & North Eastern Railway existed from 1923-1947 and presided over one of the most exiting periods in British railway history. From the non-stop 'Flying Scotsman' to 'Silver Jubilee', 'Coronation' and 'West Riding Limited' streamlined trains,...

Running a railway is a complex business. However organised it is, there will always be surprises: often hilarious, frequently unexpected, but sometimes serious.Along Different Lines includes such bizarre 'everyday' events as coping with hurricanes, rogue...

The most glamorous trains run by railway companies were the high-speed expresses, linking the major towns, cities and holiday destinations. They included overnight sleepers, fast mail trains, excursion specials and boat trains connecting with ocean...

The city of Glasgow, formerly one of the largest industrial centres in the world, was once responsible for building about one-quarter of the world's railway locomotives. This was complemented by a massive urban railway network: the second largest in the...

Why did Telford need railways? Shropshire was at the heart of the Industrial Revolution in England. The railways provided a way of getting raw materials into the works and finished products to market, and the network grew steadily with the industries of...

'Fresh, charming and wonderfully escapist' BETH O'LEARY, author of The Flatshare'A wonderfully engaging tale of love and self-discovery' MIKE GAYLE, author of Half a World AwayCould one split second change her life forever?Hannah and Si are in love and...

This title features key facts and figures spanning over 150 years of British railway history, from the early 1800s to the end of the golden era of steam in the 20th century. It offers technical specification tables for each class, including builder's...

Just as life in Britain generally changed dramatically during the 1960s, so did London Transport's buses and their operations. Most striking was the abandonment of London's trolleybuses, once the world's biggest system, and their replacement by...

'I remember how excited I was when I saw my first diesel. I was waiting for the usual West Country Class to come through Hampden Park when a Class 33 arrived instead. It was the talk of all the trainspotters at the junior school.' Author Mick Hymans'...

Two men started the transformation from sleepy hilltop community into a thriving town. Gooch and Brunel chose the area near Swindon to build a factory for the Great Western Railway and for more than 140 years The Works was renowned for high-quality heavy...

The South Maitland and Richmond Vale Railways formed an extensive network of standard-gauge lines serving collieries in the New South Wales coalfields. The first section opened for coal traffic in 1893, with passenger services introduced on part of the...

The story of an engineering marvel of the twenty-first century, from Britain's bestselling railway writer. Crossrail, first conceived just after the Second World War in the era of Attlee and Churchill, has cost more than GBP15bn and is expected to...

The busy London Underground may seem an unlikely location for heritage train operation, especially involving steam. However, this was the world's first Underground railway network, and the original sections were built to main line gauge using steam...

The Western Region of British Railways has always held a special appeal for railway modellers. Formed in 1948, the WR carried on the traditions of The Great Western Railway more or less unchallenged until the regions were abolished in the 1990s. ...

In his time Isambard Kingdom Brunel was the world's greatest engineer. His list of achievements is truly breathtaking: the Thames Tunnel, the first underwater tunnel in the world; the SS Great Britain, the first propeller-driven ship; the Clifton...

Christian Wolmar expertly tells the story of the Trans-Siberian railway from its conception and construction under Tsar Alexander III, to the northern extension ordered by Brezhnev and its current success as a vital artery. He also explores the crucial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909431614Author Robert PritchardFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Platform 5 Publishing LtdPublisher Platform 5 Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915984074Author Chris BoothFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Platform 5 Publishing LtdPublisher Platform 5 Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809730Author colonel Col. H. C. B. RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing