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'A tale of irresponsibility and inexperience' THE TIMES'Graphically written with a sense of dramatic construction' SCOTSMANOn December 28th 1879, the night of the Great Storm, the Tay Bridge collapsed, along with the train that was crossing, and everyone...

No railway closure in the Beeching era was mourned more than that of the Great Central Railway's main line southward from Nottingham. From its cathedral-like edifice at Victoria to the distinctive island platform stations that served towns and villages...

The Rail Rover ticket for Scotland in the 1970s and 1980s had the grandiose title 'Freedom of Scotland' - for the ever-growing group of diesel enthusiasts in the 1970s, it was a gift from the gods. Possibly less successful in its original purpose, which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809747Author Dominic WellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

For many the GWR was synonymous with holidays by the sea in the West Country, but it was built to serve as a fast railway line to London, especially for the merchants and financiers of Bristol. Its operations stretched as far as Merseyside, it provided...

The Somerset & Dorset Railway, known as the S&D (said to also stand for 'Slow and Dirty' or 'Serene and Delightful'), ran from Bath across the Mendip hills to Bournemouth on the south coast. Never a high-speed line, the main traffic for the Somerset &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909431843Author Andy ChardFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Platform 5 Publishing LtdPublisher Platform 5 Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840339024Author Tom HeavysideFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Arguably one of the most dramatic railway lines in northern England, the Settle - Carlisle runs through remote, scenic regions of the Yorkshire Dales and the North Pennines. Starting from the town of Settle, it crosses the Ribblehead viaduct on its way...

These units were used by British Rail from the start of electrification in Glasgow in 1960. Initially the units worked between Helensburgh Central and Airdrie and various branch lines on the North Clyde area. They were later introduced to the South Clyde...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858952116Author David MitchellFormat 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 9780860936657Author Mike KingFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

Mention the name Carlisle to any steam enthusiast of a certain age and they will probably conjure up an image of bygone days when Stanier and Gresley pacifics rubbed shoulders alongside each other within Citadel station whilst waiting to relieve incoming...

The 1970 merger of Northern Pacific; Great Northern; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; and Spokane, Portland & Seattle created a new super railroad spanning the northern and central United States over a 25,000-mile network. For twenty-five years, BN was one...

This compelling book centres on the Great Central Railways early history, focusing particularly on its drive to reach London. It follows the subsequent fortunes of the London Extension right up until its closure, and into the preservation era, examining...

THE THRILLING TRUE STORY OF BRITAIN'S FIRST EVER RAILWAY MURDER 'A fascinatingly quirky portrait of the underside of Victorian London . . . unputdownable' Daily Telegraph'A cunning and suspenseful tale' Independent 'Meticulously researched . . . the...

Over the last two and a half years, Chris Tarrant has travelled, literally, all around the world filming Extreme Railway Journeys for Channel 5. The hugely successful TV series is already being repeated, and broadcast rights have been, and continue to...

The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times. They carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed, transforming the pace and style of everyday life. We owe them to two men who, father and son, can lay claim to be the...

In September 1962, the author started revisiting his boyhood trainspotting haunts at the London terminals - this time armed with a newly purchased camera loaded with colour slide film. A few days were thought adequate to record mainly steam at Kings...

This is the tenth and final volume in this series of regional books examining the industrial railways of England, Scotland and Wales. Following on from previous titles in the series, the author draws from both his excellent personal collection of...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906887384Author Mike HeathFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint PiXZ BooksPublisher PiXZ Books

Continuing with photographs from Jim Blake's extensive archives, this book examines the second half of the 1970s, when both London Transport and London Country were still struggling to keep services going. This resulted both from being plagued by a...

Railway buildings have always had a fascinating character all of their own, despite many no longer being in operational railway service. This book tells the story of how these buildings evolved alongside the development of the railway in Great Britain...

In this, his second book on Fife's railways, local enthusiast and photographer Michael Mather delves into the past with a selection of photographs mainly from the 1950s and 1960s, but also dating back to the beginning of the twentieth century, along with...

The 1960s saw the last hurrah of steam on the railways – the final period of steam-powered locomotives dominating the main line. This meant that a colourful array of traffic could be found across the length and breadth of Great Britain, and an army of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904474487Author Maurice DartFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909328013Author David ShepherdFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Noodle BooksPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904474739Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton PressWeight(grams) 450g

Margam Servicing Depot was built on a landfill site and opened during March 1964. Its function was to service locomotives operating to and from Margam Knuckle Yard, which was acclaimed as being the most highly mechanised in the United Kingdom when it was...

The British Rail corporate image and its Rail Blue livery was one of the longest-lived colour schemes carried by the trains of Britain in the forty-eight-year life of the nationalised railway network. Launched in 1965, after Beeching, the then new...

Twice voted the top railway journey in the world, the West Highland route to Mallaig (like the Dingwall & Skye and the Callander & Oban) accessed the remote and mountainous west coast of Scotland. The original West Highland line, described here, links...

Great photography of locomotives on the East Midlands railways in the final years of steam traction compiled with thoroughly researched, informative captions, beautifully produced in hardback with rare and previously unseen images in colour and black and...

The ubiquitous Class 66 locomotive first emerged onto the British freight scene in 1998, with many people getting their first close-up look at these engines at the Open Day at Toton in August that year. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the class in...

Robert Ellis James-Robertson (always known as Ellis) was born in Wales but lived at Worcester from the mid-1950s and travelled extensively around the country building up a large railway collection. In the 1960s a few of Ellis's photographs were published...

Churchward's 2 cylinder Saint Class 4-6-0s were arguably one of the most important locomotive developments of the twentieth century. The seventy-seven members of the class were so successful that most of the other railway companies in this country used...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956209269Author Richard FurnessFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint JDF & Associates LtdPublisher JDF & Associates Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809679Author Harold GassonFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908174062Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

Southern Region Steam 1948-1967 contains over 250 stunning colour and black and white photographs of steam locomotives working across much of the South of England. Many areas of interest are featured, including: Eastleigh; Dover; Southampton; Brighton;...