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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860936954Author Hugh LongworthFormat HardbackPage Count 338Imprint OPC RailprintPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840339529Author Neil BurgessFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 174mm * 240mm * 4mm

British Rail is a contentious company, as controversial as Dr Beeching and his axe. However, this examination of BR's passenger services shows just how vital the organisation was.It successfully carried millions of commuters to and from their jobs every...

Nicholas Whittaker's much-loved classic recollects the long sunny days of his childhood when, notepad in hand, jam sandwiches in the duffel bag, he happily spent his time jotting down train numbers during the Indian summer of steam and the heyday of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900340755Author Helen AshbyFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Locomotives InternationalPublisher Mainline & Maritime Ltd

The Black Country is an area immediately to the west of Birmingham heavily associated with the Industrial Revolution. The townships are fiercely partisan and in typical fashion have fought hard for their railway connections. The main presence was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809624Author Peter GrayFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

The railways which operated in Worcestershire were controlled by the Midland Railway and the Great Western Railway, whose struggle for supremacy had considerable effect on the development of railways in the county. The most important route through the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840336573Author Neil BurgessFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

The story of the world's most audacious infrastructure project Less than a decade ago, China did not have a single high-speed train in service. Today, it owns a network of 14,000 miles of high-speed rail, far more than the rest of the world combined...

In The Great Railway Revolution, Christian Wolmar tells us the extraordinary one-hundred-and-eighty-year story of the rise, fall and ultimate shattering of the greatest of all American endeavours, of technological triumph and human tragedy, of visionary...

The Festiniog Railway can trace its history back to 1829 and it was constructed to serve the slate quarries in the area. It was built to the gauge of 2ft as this was the track width used in the quarries. Originally powered by gravity and horses, by 1863...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854144256Author Mike HorneFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

The Western Region has been going through a period of great transition, and this book aims to document these changes, such as the rebranding of First Great Western as Great Western Railway and the replacement of the High Speed Train (HST) fleet with the...

The railway came to Peebles in July 1855. However, this small town in the Scottish Borders soon became the subject of a dispute between the North British Railway and the Caledonian Railway. The Peebles Railway, the first to reach the town, was taken over...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906419387Author Kevin RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Noodle BooksPublisher Crecy Publishing

The British Rail Class 142 Pacer was an attempt to produce a cost effective train to replace the worn-out and elderly first generation BR Diesel Multiple Unit fleet that had been introduced in the late 1950's. The Class 142 concept was a marriage of...

The Erewash Valley line, linking the busy railway junctions at Trent through the once bustling yards of the iconic railway location of Toton and to the main line at Clay Cross, has seen much in the way of change over the last half a century...

'There is probably no place in the British Isles that could offer a more attractive study to one interested in railway working on a small scale than the Isle of Wight'. P. C. Allen, 1928 At its height the Island had a network of 551/2 miles of line...

The first traction engines were built around the middle of the nineteenth century. Their great pulling power and ability to provide power for other equipment revolutionised road haulage and agriculture. Great makers like Burrell and Garrett from East...

The military was quick to see the advantages of railways in warfare, whether for the rapid deployment of men or the movement of heavy equipment like artillery. From here it was a short step to making the train a potent weapon in its own right - a mobile...

The London Midland & Scottish Railway was the largest of the Big Four railway companies to emerge from the 1923 grouping. It was the only one to operate in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as having two short stretches of line in...

You want to be a steam engine driver? It's not that simple - it's not just a matter of blowing the whistle, releasing the brakes and opening the regulator. Where is the whistle? Which handle operates the brakes and what is a regulator? And do you...

Once the industrial heartland of Britain, North East England had a bustling network of railways. Whether on the East Coast Main Line, local branches or industrial tracks, there was much of interest for the railway enthusiast. Over 200 colour and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857945836Author Peter Edge-StensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 238g

If you want to recreate in realistic model form some of the excitement of watching trains by the lineside - then this is the book for you. It contains several photographs of the available relevant products and includes numerous step-by-step...

Crewe needs little introduction. Even in a country built on railways, with many other railway centres, Crewe is a railway town that is unequalled: five major routes, several motive power depots, an extensive station, large marshalling yards and at one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853617358Author Robert WesternFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Although closed to traffic in 1966, with most of its infrastructure swiftly destroyed by British Railways, this unique railway line still lives in the minds of many, some too young to remember it in its heyday. For more then a hundred years it courted...

Already depleted by withdrawals in the London Buses Ltd era, the Leyland Titan fleet of T class was divided upon privatisation between three new companies; London Central, Stagecoach East London and Stagecoach Selkent. Together with a host of smaller...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906008055Author J. E. ConnorFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854144584Author Ben PedrocheFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

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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...

Construction on the Callander & Oban Railway began in 1866, but because of the mountain terrain through which the line passed, especially at Glen Ogle and at the Pass of Brander at Loch Awe, the line did not open until 1880. Designed to link Callander,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915984012Author Ian BeardsleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Platform 5 Publishing LtdPublisher Platform 5 Publishing Ltd

Freight operations on Britain's rail network have changed enormously in the last two decades. In this book author and photographer Paul D. Shannon surveys the changes in the rail freight scene since the year 2000. With superb colour photographs he...

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

Electro-Motive Division of General Motors was North America's leading locomotive builder from 1945 to 1983. After the early years of custom-built motive power and trains, EMD took to the rails in a big way when it built its first freight locomotives in...

Mark Yonge had, for many years, wanted to write a book about railway projects that were started but never completed. The physical evidence of these works throughout England although rapidly vanishing, can still be seen in places to this day. The reader...