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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857943337Author Alan J. HaighFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Steam's final fling proved a melancholy experience for the many enthusiasts who had witnessed the gleaming giants of the rails in their prime. One day's highly burnished rail tour favourite was the next day's candidate for the breaker's torch. This book...

Featuring an array of previously unpublished images, Royston Morris documents the fascinating world of the vehicles and equipment that keep the nation's railways on track and on time. There are numerous machines that can carry out various different...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853616207Author Colin Gerald MaggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 151mm * 213mm * 7mm

The Chilterns consist of a band of chalk hills to the north-west of London stretching from Oxfordshire to Hertfordshire. It so happened that these hills were directly on the routes of five major companies' routes to the North and Midlands. These were:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853614616Author Stephen ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 273mm * 210mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857945577Author Terry Gough and Bob AveryFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841144429Author Mike HeathFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853617549Author Roger JermyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

It is curious that the nineteenth-century railway builders should even have thought of a line linking Huddersfield with Sheffield, now known as the Penistone Line, with the risk of all sorts of disasters. As Along the Penistone Line makes clear,...

Following the end of the steam locomotive in normal service, the diesel has become the favourite of many railway enthusiasts. To show something of the diesel types and operations on various international railway systems, Peter J. Green has selected some...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857942774Author John StrettonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

A quick look at today's map of the county of Leicestershire and it's easy to see that its county town, Leicester, sits at an important railway crossroads. With London to the south and the East Midlands cities of Derby and Nottingham to the north, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857944976Author David HindleFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media GroupDimensions(mm) 169mm * 238mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992595661Author Robin BrombyFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Highgate PublishingPublisher Highgate PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858951263Author John BroughtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 173g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858951614Author Roger SiviterFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Under-maintained and over-worked during the Second World War, Britain's railways emerged from the conflict carrying a 'poor bag of physical assets'. Yet the new government of 1945 saw a need to bring the nation's great industries into public ownership -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906919979Author Ian SixsmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Irwell PressPublisher Irwell Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853615613Author Neil FraserFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 210mm * 147mm * 11mm

This is a photographic tribute to the West Midlands Day Ranger, aiming to show how times have changed over the years in the West Midlands and surrounding areas. The area covered in this volume stretches from Crewe in the north, down to Northampton in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906008659Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

The Peak District area of England has yielded limestone products since around the time of the Romans and by 1794 the Peak Forest Tramway arrived to help transport products further afield. By the time the Midland Railway arrived in the Buxton area in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905505425Author Nigel BrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Kestrel Railway BooksPublisher Kestrel Railway BooksDimensions(mm) 272mm * 215mm * 10mm

When British Rail decided to electrify the West Coast Main Line north of Crewe towards Scotland, a new class of electric locomotive was needed to work these services. Thirty-six members of Class 87 were built at Crewe Works from 1973 onwards and were an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908174550Author Vic MitchellFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton PressWeight(grams) 480gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 174mm *...

Gordon D. Webster's latest title examines the renewal - and revival - of railways in the north of England. In 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic changed the role of train travel in Britain forever. Gone were the swarms of rush-hour commuters to the city and the...

During the final quarter of the last century a small railway company had the temerity to set up its headquarters at Swindon, right in the GWR heartland, and to drive a standard gauge line north-south through Brunel's broad gauge empire. The interloper...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857945584Author Barry AllenFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 212g

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,...

British Rail operated thousands of different shunt engines during its time, many being built by private companies and others by BR themselves. Sadly, most have now been withdrawn; however, a large number have been saved for posterity by many different...

This book contains previously unpublished photographs from the collection of David Reed, who set out to record the end of steam trains on British Rail's Southern Region. Also recorded here are steam engines in the locomotive graveyards at Salisbury,...

Scotland still has hundreds of miles of `dismantled railways', the term used by Ordnance Survey, and the track beds give scope for many walks. Some track beds have been `saved' as Tarmacadam walkway/cycleway routes while others have become well-trodden...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910356418Author 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 9781906419806Author Kevin RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Noodle BooksPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840337631Author W. Stewart WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

London Midland Steam Days Remembered offers the very best quality colour photographs of steam from the 1950s and 1960s across the region, with not only Stanier's fabulous Duchesses but a full supporting cast of steam from the lower ranks to be enjoyed...

With construction beginning in 1997, the Turbostar family of diesel multiple units are by far the most numerous design of such units introduced to the privatised railway. Over the next fourteen years, over a hundred units belonging to this family have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909431539Author Brian GarvinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Platform 5 Publishing LtdPublisher Platform 5 Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854144447Author Maxwell RobertsFormat HardbackImprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing