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Ken Hoole was a noted authority on the railways of the north east of England. This, his wide-ranging account of the stations that served the passengers of the north-east's railway, is complemented by illustrations and photographs of both the bustling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915984166Author Keith BarrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Platform 5 Publishing LtdPublisher Platform 5 Publishing Ltd

This book is the tale of a small boy from Surrey who had a fascination with anything on wheels and, also, loved to learn about people and what motivated them. He read a lot about railways and was excited by the innovations of our nineteenth-century...

Although in the late 1970s they were frowned upon by many for replacing a number of loco-hauled services, and indeed locomotives, for 40 years the High-Speed Train (HST) was the mainstay of express services for many train operators in the UK. It was in...

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...

The two most westerly counties in England remain hugely popular for travellers looking for a break in the UK. Perhaps less well known is the fact that, against all the odds when faced by the Beeching Axe, a number of popular destinations can still be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910356814Author Tom HeavysideFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

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 9781911262497Author IAN SIXSMITHFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Irwell PressPublisher Irwell Press

The first railway to penetrate Sussex was the Brighton Line of the LBSCR. From this beginning, lines spread out along the coast. Over the succeeding years further lines stretched across out the rest of the county, all built by the 'Brighton', which was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857042002Author Maurice DartFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove

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...

Before the West Coast Route electrification was completed in 1966, the electric locomotive was quite a rare beast on Britain's railways, with the exception of the Manchester to Sheffield service that had been electrified from 1954. There were plenty of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909328242Format PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Noodle BooksPublisher Crecy Publishing

Peter J Green first photographed Class 50 diesels in action in 1975, while they were still being transferred from the London Midland to the Western Region of British Rail. But it was in the early 1980s, when they were named and painted in Large Logo...

A unique collaboration by two veteran recorders of the railway scene in words and pictures. Since 1967, David Joy has written over 50 books on railways and numerous aspects of the Yorkshire Dales. Gavin Morrison, one of Britain's most experienced railway...

The Somme sector of the Western Front was held by French forces until early 1916, when the British and Dominions Third and Fourth Armies moved into the northern part, before the joint First Battle of the Somme from July to November 1916/. In 1917, with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853615453Author Niall FergusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies 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

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

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The Class 156 (Super Sprinter) is a Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) ordered by British Rail and built between 1987 and 1989 by Metro-Cammell to replace the aging first-generation 'Heritage' DMUs. A total of 114 of these units were produced at the Washwood...

Second Generation DMUs in Scotland covers the modern diesel multiple units introduced by BR from 1981. It features locations from across Scotland, and also looks at Carlisle. This book covers units from the experimental Class 140s, introduced in 1981, to...

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 9781800352889Format PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

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...

The astonishing true story of trust, pain, becoming lost, and finding a way back to yourself despite it all'An intimate preservation of a moment in time, full of personality' THE TIMES__________Life is beautiful - even in the dark . . .Oliver Mol was...

Europe by Eurail has been the train traveler's one-stop source for visiting Europe's cities and countries by rail for nearly fifty years. Newly revised and updated, this comprehensive annual guide provides the latest information on fares, schedules, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860936763Author Chris AustinFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910356593Author Roger DarsleyFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

In the days when coal was king, an ambitious plan was laid for an east-to-west cross country rail route, connecting the Manchester Ship Canal at Warrington to a new dock near the small east coast village of Sutton-on-Sea. Grandly titled The Lancashire,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857944495Format PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

In the mid-nineteenth century, the great age of railway building, Charles Dickens could not but be aware of their transformative impact on society. So he wrote about it - to a remarkable extent. He wrote a classic ghost story, 'The Signalman'; in Dombey...

In the mid-1930s, eminent locomotive engineer Sir Nigel Gresley produced plans for the A4 Class Pacifics, which were specially built to work a new high-speed express, the 'Silver Jubilee'. From the start, the class caused a sensation and immediately...

The book begins with a history of the industrial development of the Tondu Valleys, including the succession of great industrialists who led the way in the area. This is followed by a chapter on the position of the Tondu Valleys in the South Wales...

The South Yorkshire town of Doncaster has long been a hotspot for railway enthusiasts. Glancing at the railway map, it’s easy to see why. With its prominent position on the East Coast Main Line, it is also an important passenger interchange for a variety...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734563511Author Scott LothesFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Center for Railroad Photography & ArtPublisher Center for Railroad Photography &...

The railways of France present a uniquely interesting picture, consisting as they once did of two entirely separate but overlapping systems: the standard-gauge network of the great railway companies and the mostly metre-gauge network of the local rural...

The vast majority of Britain's railways were built between 1830 and 1900 which happened to coincide with the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901). By the turn of the Nineteenth/Twentieth Century, over one hundred different railway companies were operating...

England's second largest county contains a wealth of railway history. The county was dominated by two companies - the Great Central in the north and the Great Northern in the centre and south. The county was also penetrated by the Midland Railway and...