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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914079825Author Peter WallerFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg LimitedDimensions(mm) 150mm * 200mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526729859Author Tim Hillier-GravesFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Pen and Sword TransportPublisher Pen and Sword TransportWeight(grams) 140g

Winter 1984/5 - the future for the Cambridge-King's Lynn 'Fen Line' looked bleak. British Rail had singled long track sections. There had been closure talk. Yet, following a vigorous three year political and technical campaign, government approval for...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853617648Author John MairFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909431461Author Robert PritchardFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Platform 5 Publishing LtdPublisher Platform 5 Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913555115Author Paul SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Unique BooksPublisher Unique Publishing Services Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858950471Author Peter W. GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858950471Author Peter W. GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780715385272Author Ken HooleFormat HardbackPage Count 214Imprint David & CharlesPublisher David & Charles

'On an average Saturday, some thirty trains carried police escorts of between two and eight officers. Officers sometimes reached the destination with their uniforms soiled with spittle, and other filth, burnt with cigarette ends, or slashed.' Charting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908174871Author Roger DarsleyFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914079108Author Jamie GreenFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906008406Author Richard AddersonFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton PressDimensions(mm) 240mm * 174mm * 6mm

From coal trains in South Wales to clay trains in Cornwall, there were still large numbers of unfitted and vacuum-braked wagons of various types in use across the Western Region at the start of the 1980s. However changes were taking place, and by 1984...

The Class 58s were introduced in 1983, and were a significant departure from normal build standards. The fifty members were built by BREL at Doncaster Works, and were built to a modular design: BR had one eye on the export market with this class of loco...

The Canadian Pacific Railway was built to unite all the Canadian Provinces with a transcontinental line running from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Many obstacles were encountered during construction including the Rocky Mountains, a formidable range of...

Illustrated with 180 photographs, this book looks at the much-loved West Highland line, which runs from Glasgow to Fort William, along with the Mallaig Extension from Fort William to Mallaig and the Oban line divergence at Crianlarich. The variety of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901706413Author Richard AddersonFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton PressDimensions(mm) 240mm * 168mm * 12mm

0 gauge (scale 7mm to the foot) is the 'senior scale' and it has existed for almost as long as the hobby of railway modelling itself. With the advent of high-quality ready-to-run 0 gauge locomotives and rolling stock, it is enjoying a huge surge in...

The author started taking photographs of steam locomotives and steam hauled trains on the Southern in 1960 and continued until the end of steam in July 1967. The quality of most of the very early photographs isn't good enough for reproduction but better...

These locomotives were introduced to British Rail in 1956 and were initially allocated to Eastfield Depot in Glasgow and Haymarket Depot in Edinburgh. They became known as Type 2s and were used for both passenger and freight services. In later years the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915984050Author Alan YearsleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Platform 5 Publishing LtdPublisher Platform 5 Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993029646Author David SpavenFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Kessock Books LimitedPublisher Lomond Books

200 colour illustrations and a system mapAbout the AuthorJustin Bailey was born in Woolwich South East London, having grown up with a lifelong passion for trains, transport and history related subjects. He has worked in the book industry since the age...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857943009Author Brian GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

There were 20,000 miles of railways in 1865 and about a million by 2020. Scale has always been a key theme in railway history. In the First World War, the London and North West Railway transported 325,000 miles of barbed wire and over twelve million...

During the 1960s, British Railways withdrew its thousands of steam locomotives from the national network. The process started gradually at the start of the 1960s but accelerated towards the end of the decade so that by 1968 the last steam-operated trains...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854144492Author Michael WelchFormat HardbackImprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

In the heroic days of rail travel, you could dine on kippers and champagne aboard the Brighton Belle; smoke a post-prandial cigar as the Golden Arrow closed in on Paris, or be shaved by the Flying Scotsman's on-board barber. Everyone from schoolboys to...

In this book John Whiteley provides a photographic survey of the last years of steam on British Railways in the North of England. The photographs cover the period from c. 1959/60 to the end of steam in the area in 1968. By the early 1960s British Rail...

As 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! Consequently, the far west of the network from Plymouth to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910356753Author Paul CrookFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912050673Author Tom FerrisFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809921Author Peter TatlowFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Oxford Publishing CoPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873793640Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838408084Author John PotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint European Rail Timetable LimitedPublisher European Rail Timetable LimitedWeight(grams)...

As electricity became more widely used to power and light Britain's towns and cities a number of municipal boroughs built their own power stations. In the early years these were inevitably fed by coal, of which the UK had a plentiful supply. In the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853617297Author Alistair WhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800350274Author Kevin RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing