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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908174970Author Richard AddersonFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

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

As days get shorter and seasons change, winter arrives with snow and ice. No matter how brief the day or severe the weather, railroads continue to haul tonnage and passengers through landscapes cloaked in snowy white. Scenery takes on an added dimension...

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 standard gauge heritage steam railway in Britain, the Bluebell Railway, opened in 1960. Since then, over eighty have opened to the public. While each of these has its individual characteristics, nearly all are former British railways branch...

Bradshaw's Guide of 1863 was the staple book on what's what and where's where for the mid-Victorians and it gives the modern reader a unique insight into the world of the nineteenth-century railway travellers. The guide introduced the notion of seaside...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658191Author Robin JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 534gDimensions(mm) 245mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905505418Author David LarkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Kestrel Railway BooksPublisher Kestrel Railway Books

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 9781840332872Author David JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995749337Author Andrew FoxFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Unique BooksPublisher Unique Publishing Services Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911704225Author Roger RounceFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 951g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858951492Author Terry GoughFormat 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 9781840337556Author Neil BurgessFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 274mm * 210mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912213115Author Paul LawtonFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg Limited

A. Aubrey Bodine's archive of train photographs chronicling mid-twentieth-century rail transportation. A. Aubrey Bodine, newspaper photographer, pictorialist, modernist, and documentarian, was a Baltimore Sun feature photographer from 1924 to 1970. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853617655Author A. Gordon PirieFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

The Pennine hills of northern England offer some of the country's finest - and most diverse - landscapes. They have long been a magnet for the nation's railway photographers, offering stunning vistas and dramatic backdrops to the elegance and power of a...

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...

Coal and iron making first brought railways to what is now called South Yorkshire. The industrial towns of Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley and Doncaster attracted the Victorian pioneers, who built a myriad of often competing lines to the collieries and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853617112Author Stanley C. JenkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 9mm

CrossCountry Trains Ltd won the right to operate the CrossCountry franchise from 11 November 2007 when the Strategic Rail Authority determined that its bid for the franchise was the best value for money and the most sustainable. CrossCountry operates the...

The simple and lightweight construction, with minimal land requirements, means that miniature railways can be quite ephemeral in nature. The author, a much published writer on the miniature railway scene, both in the UK and overseas, has put together...

The diesel locomotive sent shock waves through rigid corporate cultures and staid government regulators. For some, the new technology promised to be a source of enormous profits; for others, the railroad industry seemed a threat to their very livelihoods...

Historical Railways around the World is a carefully curated selection of vintage railway photos from all around the world. It was composed in the spirit of the time-honoured phrase that a picture is worth a thousand words, and transports the reader back...

In Great Britain there existed a practice of naming steam railway locomotives. The names chosen covered many and varied subjects, however a large number of those represented direct links with military personnel, regiments, squadrons, naval vessels,...

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 9781905505401Author David LarkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Kestrel Railway BooksPublisher Kestrel Railway BooksDimensions(mm) 274mm * 216mm * 9mm

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 9781854143877Author Michael WelchFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint 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...

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

The route covered by this book dates from 1849 onwards. It ran from Manchester to Altrincham, utilising the infrastructure of the Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway, then to Knutsford by 1862, with extensions to Northwich and Mouldsworth,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853616962Author Brian L. JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914079115Author Jamie GreenFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg LimitedDimensions(mm) 150mm * 200mm * 5mm

It was to the south-west of Leeds that one of the key lines in the development of Britain’s railway network – the Middleton Railway – established the principle of seeking parliamentary sanction for the construction of a new form of transport. Five...

In the early 1980s, I began to visit South Wales on a regular basis to photograph the railway scene. At that time, the collieries and steelworks were generating a lot of rail traffic with Class 37 diesels being the usual motive power. Passenger trains...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910356500Author Roger DarsleyFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press