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A visual exploration of the transit histories of twenty-three US and Canadian cities. Every driver in North America shares one miserable, soul-sucking universal experience-being stuck in traffic. But things weren't always like this. Why is it that the...

Early Railways A Modellers Guide will encourage and support the modelling of the earliest period of railway history, from the very beginnings of steam traction at the start of the nineteenth century, up to about 1880; a period which for British modellers...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956209276Author Richard FurnessFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint JDF & Associates LtdPublisher JDF & Associates Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858950587Author David MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 359g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906008482Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 95Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

This book examines in words and pictures the huge changes that have taken place in the last 50 years on the British railway network. We see how steam-age infrastructure has gradually given way to a streamlined modern railway. The beginning of the period...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909431119Author Peter NicholsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Platform 5 Publishing LtdPublisher Platform 5 Publishing LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857941876Author Graham H.E. TwidaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853617327Author Peter PayeFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

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...

Coal-black starless nights, comfort only from the weak glow of station lamps. The velvet silence broken by a series of shrill ringing bells in the signal box, a flurry of activity; levers are pulled, wires sing, signals drop, and silence returns. In the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658269Author David SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 230gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905505197Author Nigel BrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Kestrel Railway BooksPublisher Kestrel Railway Books

ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL is famous for the engineering wonders he left behind - from the SS Great Britain to the delights of Paddington and Temple Meads stations, but much of what he designed has been lost. From the ships Great Western and Great Eastern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780711038073Author Ben MuldoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Ian Allan PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853617129Author Stanley C. JenkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809587Author Andrew RoyleFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Oxford Publishing CoPublisher Crecy Publishing

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...

This is a new biography of two great British engineering pioneers, who did much to develop the world we now live in. George and Robert Stephenson, were at the forefront of early railways and were at the cutting edge of modern engineering history. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854143044Author Beverley ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

Many railway modellers include an engine shed somewhere on their layout. However, all too often the shed is squeezed into a quite improbable location and is little more than a place to 'park' engines when they are not in use. This well-illustrated and...

Gresley's B17s explores the career of this steam locomotive passenger class from its introduction in 1928 to withdrawal in 1960 Designed by the London & North Eastern Railway's world-renowned Chief Mechanical Engineer Sir Nigel Gresley, the engines...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910356692Author Roger DarsleyFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

Selby was an important location from the earliest days of the railways, with the arrival of the Leeds & Selby Railway in 1934. Over the succeeding years it became an important nodal point, with the opening of railways to Market Weighton and Driffield, to...

In the quarter of a century between 1830 and 1855, the railway locomotive developed from the small sisters of Rocketto the broad gauge monsters of Daniel Gooch, with a boiler pressure nearly three times that of Rocketand weighing in at nearly 40 tons...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800350212Author Kevin RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853612025Author Peter PayeFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 210mm * 147mm * 14mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910356784Author Ian ColebyFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

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 9781858951423Author John StrettonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Running a railway is a complex business, constantly throwing up drama, misadventure and the unexpected. Geoff Body and Bill Parker have collated a rich selection of railwaymen's memories and anecdotes to create an enjoyable book of escapades and mishaps,...

While Brighton is synonymous with EMUs and commuter trains, over the years there has also been some limited freight and parcels traffic and, eventually, the reintroduced direct services to the Midlands and North West brought further variety to the scene...

Return to the era when rail blue ruled supreme on the railways of Britain, when a wide variety of British-built trains operated from the highlands of Scotland, through the now vanished industrial north and midlands, through the Welsh valleys, across the...

It's an exciting time on Scotland's railways, with new trains meaning faster journey times. The popular 'InterCity' brand has been revived and electrification has spread across the Central Belt. The rural routes have changed little, but are now marketed...

Over more than fifty years, the railways of the Eastern Counties have seen a great number of changes. In the early 1970s, many stations, even some of the smaller ones, had a resident diesel shunter for moving empty carriages or servicing the goods yard...

This book shows the important role played by the nation's railways in the nuclear industry and how the need to secure that service through the turbulence of privatisation led to the creation of the nation's most diverse railway company, Direct Rail...

Recording an iconic and important decade in the history of the Southern Region, Michael Hymans offers a unique year-by-year photographic record of the fascinating changes that took place. With an accessible, easy-to-read style, Southern Region Through...

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...

The London & Birmingham Railway was the major project of its day, designed by Robert Stephenson, one of the great railway pioneers, who also supervised its construction and its opening in 1837. Camden Goods Station became the goods terminus and Euston...