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When British Railways (BR) was privatised in April 1994 some of the freight companies were bought by English Welsh Scottish Railways (EWSR), which immediately reviewed the mixed locomotive fleet and led to the decision to purchase 250 locomotives from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853617389Author Andrew HajduckiFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Britain is a country in love with its railway past. Nowhere else do the workhorses of the age of steam exert such a pull; in no other country is the nostalgia for the days when the railways extended to every corner of the kingdom so strong. However, the...

Looking Back at Class 24 & 25 Locomotives takes a closer look at these plucky and versatile Type 2 locos in a full-colour photographic album. The images follow the locomotives from their introduction in the late 1950s and throughout their service years,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857944730Author David MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

The first cranes mounted on railway wheels were hand-operated, but by the mid-nineteenth century several builders had fitted steam engines and boilers to enhance lifting capabilities, though initially these machines were not self-propelled, but merely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780711038561Author Colin MarsdenFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Ian Allan PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853616580Author John HoldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854144799Author Andrew EmmersonFormat PaperbackImprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853616528Author Colin G. MaggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

The Mallaig Extension was approved in 1894 to provide a continuation of the West Highland route for the benefit of the fishing industry on Scotland's west coast. It revived, more ambitiously, the Fort William to Roshven line lost in 1889. With...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913555146Author Michael SwiftFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Unique BooksPublisher Unique Publishing Services Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853616870Author Andrew HajduckiFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873793947Author 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 9781873793046Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

Ever wondered what it was like to run a fledgling heritage railway? Former General Manager of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway Bernard Warr lifts the veil on the ups and downs of running a private railway line in the 1970s. From working as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857946093Author David HindleFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 238g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809686Author Jeremy ClementsFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Oxford Publishing CoPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911639008Author Jonathan WebbFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 273gDimensions(mm) 196mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906919627Author John NicholasFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Irwell PressPublisher Irwell Press

Modelling the East Coast Main Line in the British Railways Era follows the construction of an East Coast Main Line layout in 00 gauge, based on the Little Bytham prototype. Little Bytham, nestled in rural Lincolnshire, is the station nearest to where...

The B1 Class 4-6-0 locomotive was Edward Thompson's most enduring design. Built from 1942-1952, the class totalled 410 examples and was a familiar sight across former London & North Eastern Railway territory. Thompson's B1s presents many of the engines...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909328754Author Jeffery GrayerFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853617259Author L.T. CathcpoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375727863Author Ted ConoverFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 247gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

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,...

The birth of the railways and their rapid spread across the world triggered economic growth and social change on an unprecedented scale. From Panama to the Punjab, Tasmania to Turin, Blood, Iron and Gold describes the vision and determination of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913390280Author Simon A.C. MartinFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Strathwood LtdPublisher Strathwood Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857944556Author David MatherFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906520451Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

The final volume in the Regional Tramways' series focuses on the history of tram operation in the London area. Starting the story with the pioneering horse tramways operated by George Francis Train in the 1860s, the book narrates how the various horse,...

`The Last Years of Steam Across Somerset and Dorset' gives an excellent photographic study of yesteryear and the iconic steam locomotive at work. The renowned Somerset & Dorset Railway is covered in detail as are other railway locations across the two...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854144621Author Kevin Nixon Peter LloydFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

In the 1970s and 1980s, the history and heritage of Britain's railways were still plain to see - it was still recognisably the railway of steam locos, pick-up freight trains, isolated stations, parcels trains, semaphore signals and a timetable that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840335194Author Bernard ByromFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 174mm * 240mm * 4mm

Sir Nigel Gresley's V2 Class 2-6-2 locomotive was developed during a period of great success for the London & North Eastern Railway company. The A3 Class and A4 Class Pacifics were breaking records and creating headlines across the globe when the first...

With an aging fleet of Diesel Multiple Units, British Rail sought a low-cost solution to the problem of replacing a large part of their fleet. A series of prototypes were built in the late 1970s and early 1980s, which led to British Rail ordering the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910356760Author Dennis LovettFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853614623Author Neil T. SinclairFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 273mm * 210mm * 8mm

After the end of steam on the Southern in July 1967, the author concentrated primarily on recording the Southern scene, to start with in black and white and then from 1972 in colour. In so doing he built up a huge collection of slides for the period 1972...