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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840337792Author Alan BrotchieFormat HardbackPage Count 182Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840337150Author Tom HeavysideFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Originally published in 1983, this volume examines one of the most long-standing major commercial water-arteries of Western and Central Europe: The Rhine. Since the mid 20th Century its importance has been given new stimulus by the intensified mobility...

One of the most intriguing yet neglected pieces of American transportation history, electric interurban railroads were designed to assist shoppers, salesmen, farmers, commuters, and pleasure-seekers alike with short distance travel. At a time when most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857943993Author Chris HarrisFormat 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 9781934620113Author Aaron DactylFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm PublishingWeight(grams) 79g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897190777Author David R. SpencerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DC Books,CanadaPublisher DC Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910241875Author Colin PittFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint C P PressPublisher C P PressWeight(grams) 0g

"The breadth of [this] comparative study of French and German railroad development - the largest and most important railway systems on the continent - is a signal achievement...A brief sketch of the book's trajectory does justice neither to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858952789Author John Stretton & Tim MaddocksFormat PaperbackImprint Mortons Motorcycle Media LtdPublisher Mortons Media Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838806910Author Roberta Di PaceFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint IntechopenPublisher IntechopenWeight(grams) 170g

Throughout his presidency, Ronald Reagan sought "peace through strength" during an era of historic change. In the decades since, pundits and scholars have argued over the president's legacy: some consider Reagan a charismatic and consummate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788195404667Author Sudheer KumarFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint Sterling Publishers Pvt.LtdPublisher Sterling Publishers Pvt.Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736901908Author J R CanfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Biographical Publishing CompanyPublisher Biographical Publishing Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857944662Author Mike HeathFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Signal Failure is a history of the relationship between railways and government in the United Kingdom. It is intended for both railway enthusiasts and professionals. Setting the relationship against the growth of the railways, the book looks at the way...

Though personally remembered by very few people, the interwar period was a fascinating time for railway enthusiasts, with the colourful liveries of the pre-Grouping companies allowing for a wide variety of interesting markings in the run-up to Grouping...

Originally published in 1979, this volume is an invaluable study of a railway system and its adjustment to changing political-geographical conditions, as well as changes in economic and social geography. Each change in the territorial extent or in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858952475Author Michael BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Past & Present Publishing LtdPublisher Mortons Media Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857943504Author Gerald AdamsFormat HardbackPage Count 159Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Named one of the "75 People You Should Know" by Trains Magazine, Jim McClellan was a railroading legend and one of the railroad industry's titans. An iconic and innovative executive, McClellan participated in the creation of both Amtrak and Conrail and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911276906Author Robin JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 196mm *...

Well into the 1960s, the steam locomotive held sway on many of Britain's railway lines. As late as 1964, there were thousands of steam locomotives still at work, gracing everything from the most humble freight yard to the pride and glamour of the...

Thanks to a quirk of fate, and the survival of so many locomotives in the Barry scrapyard, the GWR is well represented in the steam preservation scene today. John Maybery takes us through the surviving Great Western locomotives, from the Kings and...

In 1836, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas agreed on one thing: Illinois needed railroads. Over the next fifty years, the state became the nation's railroad hub, with Chicago at its center. Speculators, greed, growth, and regulation followed as the...

George Stephenson was born in 1781, the son of a Northumberland colliery engineman. Within a hundred years of his birth his railway legacy had opened up vast tracts of the planet, many of those routes engineered by George himself or his son Robert. Their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857944228Author Ian P. PeatyFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

The Chicago Great Western Railroad was a spunky midwestern carrier that contributed mightily to the transportation industry. The 1,500-mile CGW, built by the iconoclastic and ambitious A. B. Stickney, proved to be exceptionally innovative as it developed...

Following Eric Treacy's death in 1978, the demand for his books has increased. So insistent have been the demands of his fans that Portrait of Steam has been re-issued. Of this volume Eric Treacy originally said: 'Some will say that there is too much...

Steam engines and steam railways have a long, fascinating history, with many exciting areas to explore. Whether you are visiting a steam railway, or simply want to know more about how steam railways helped to develop the modern world, this is the book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857945409Author David C. WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Mortons Motorcycle Media LtdPublisher Mortons Media Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857943320Author Frank HornbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Originally published in 1983, this volume examines one of the most long-standing major commercial water-arteries of Western and Central Europe: The Rhine. Since the mid 20th Century its importance has been given new stimulus by the intensified mobility...

Published in 1999. The book presents and compares the new relationships between transport authorities and railway companies in a number of countries (Great Britain, Sweden, Japan, Germany, Switzerland and France). It also presents a number of case...

Allows the reader to deepen their understanding of various technologies for both fixed power supply installations of railway systems and for railway rolling stock This book explores the electric railway systems that play a crucial role in the mitigation...

For twenty-three years, up to the First World War, Alfred Williams worked in the Great Western Railway's Works at Swindon, the locomotive capital of the west. The population of the town was then about fifty thousand, all more or less dependent upon the...

On 11 August 1968 BR bade farewell to standard gauge steam with the famous Fifteen Guinea Special. A steam ban was placed barring all steam trains from running over BR metals. The main line steam ban was soon to come to an end. In October 1971 King...

More than 250 classic American locomotives."Let the country but make the railroads, and the railroads will make the country."- Edward PeaseDuring the mid-1800s, American railroads became the lifeblood of new communities in the West and brought new ways...

R. E. L. Maunsell's engineering career started in Ireland, where he graduated to the post of Chief Mechanical Engineer of the GSWR. He crossed to England just before the outbreak of the First World War to take up the same post on the SECR, where his...

No-one could have imagined what a revolutionary change the dawning of the railway age would have on the British countryside and its inhabitants. Somerset was no exception: the Great Western Railway, the London and South Western Railway, and the Somerset...