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The opening of the pioneering Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830 marked the beginning of the railways' vital role in changing the face of Britain. Fire and Steam celebrates the vision and determination of the ambitious Victorian pioneers who...

Toton first saw railway yards built on the site in the 1850s to support the growing need to transport coal from the collieries of the Erewash Valley and, later, the Leen Valley area to towns and industry. Later, growth in wagonload traffic saw British...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781473833913Author Andrew FowlerFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Pen and Sword TransportPublisher Pen and Sword TransportWeight(grams) 244g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800350205Author Pip DunnFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

In the 1960s, there were still steam locomotives based at Ayr depot and a wealth of branch lines crossed the Ayrshire countryside. Although there was a wave of closures following the Beeching Report, by the 1980s it was decided that what railways were...

Almost the entire network of the former Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway system closed at the end of February 1959. Some short sections of the railway were retained for passenger services until the mid-1960s and freight continued to run on a few...

The British were at the forefront of railway development for the first fifty years of the nineteenth century. Railway Empire tells the story of how the British gave railways to the world, not only in the empire, but also in other countries outside areas...

Christian Wolmar expertly tells the story of the Trans-Siberian railway from its conception and construction under Tsar Alexander III, to the northern extension ordered by Brezhnev and its current success as a vital artery. He also explores the crucial...

The slogan 'The Last Best Place' certainly describes well the huge state of Montana, which stretches some 630 miles across and is located in the north-western United States. Three railroad main lines once spanned its width, but the unfortunate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915984036Author Andy ChardFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Platform 5 Publishing LtdPublisher Platform 5 Publishing Ltd

Second Generation DMUs in Scotland covers the modern diesel multiple units introduced by BR from 1981. It features locations from across Scotland, and also looks at Carlisle. This book covers units from the experimental Class 140s, introduced in 1981, to...

By the beginning of the 1980s, British Rail's fleet of diesel shunters was in decline, this being caused by a rapid loss of freight traffic across the country as well as the modernisation of passenger train operations, both resulting in a reduced need...

LONDON’S HISTORIC, iconic Underground railway system in the period from 1968 to 1985 was a very different place to what it is in the 2020s. Much of its rolling stock dated from before World War Two, and with the exception of the new Victoria Line and the...

One of the first areas to see the end of steam was the East of England - around 120 years after the first steam locomotives ran. Over this period, a rich history was developed through the construction of the various routes, the engines used and services...

This comprehensive book is aimed at all those railway modellers who wish to create a realistic model of a branch line. First of all it examines the origins, developments and future of branch lines in Britain and then provides useful insights into how to...

The Metropolitan Railway can claim to have had an influence on the evolution of our railway system out of all proportion to its tracks reaching just forty-seven miles from London. However it was the world's first underground passenger railway, built in...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910356593Author Roger DarsleyFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853617570Author Robert WestonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Focusing on the 1990s as a decade of change, all of the collieries and most of the coal fired power stations of that era have now gone. During that decade I made a point of photographing the collieries and power stations, and the trains that moved the...

This book provides an in-depth history of the Metropolitan-Vickers diesel-electric Type 2 locomotives, more frequently known collectively as the Co-Bo's due to their unusual wheel arrangement. Twenty locomotives were constructed during the late-1950s for...

Since their introduction in 1984, the Class 150 series of 'Sprinter' diesel multiple units have plied their trade across the UK - from Cornwall to Scotland and many places in between - replacing large numbers of aging 1950s-built rolling stock. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905505388Author Dave MardenFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Kestrel Railway BooksPublisher Kestrel Railway Books

This book, uniquely, gives an insight to the business strategy and its delivery that underpinned the performance of one of Rail Privatisation's greatest successes. It also shows the reader some of the many behind the scenes' jobs which are essential to...

The book takes an in-depth look at the East Coast Main Line-King's Cross to Edinburgh-between 1939 and 1959. This is carried out in a series of chapters. In the first one a picture is painted of the state of the network in the late 1930s. It is followed...

The Rail Rover ticket for Scotland in the 1970s and 1980s had the grandiose title 'Freedom of Scotland' - for the ever-growing group of diesel enthusiasts in the 1970s, it was a gift from the gods. Possibly less successful in its original purpose, which...

The twelve British Railways Standard Locomotive Classes were all constructed incorporating Belpaire fireboxes, rocking grates, self-emptying ash pans and self-cleaning smoke boxes to allow easy access for both daily maintenance and running needs. The...

The year 2002 saw a radical change on the railways of Devon and Cornwall: it was the last year of daily locomotive hauled passenger trains (other than the overnight London sleeper). These remaining workings were in the capable hands of the ubiquitous...

In this second and final volume, the whole of the East Coast Main Line between King's Cross and Edinburgh Waverley stations is examined closely, with a particular emphasis on the ways and structures: the line, stations, connections, yards, and other...

The story of Gresley and his locomotives is a well-trodden path. But our view of his achievements is a blinkered one because it fails to recognise all the other people who played a part in his work. As the leading American aviation engineer Paul S Baker...

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

Lancashire and Yorkshire led Britain and the world into the industrial revolution, yet were long cut off by the Pennine chain. The railway age finally brought the two counties together and ensured the continued growth of Manchester as Britain's second...

Germany, divided after World War II into two separate countries, was reunified on October 3, 1990. For the country's rail system, the complex task of unifying two networks with very different rolling stock and systems had just begun. New lines and...

Anyone who has tried to watch freight moving on UK rails in the last few years will realise these are challenging times for the rail freight industry. Stand by any railway line and you may have to wait a while to see a freight train of any sort pass by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809709Author Kevin RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy PublishingDimensions(mm) 273mm * 215mm * 215mm

Continues from Engine Sheds in Camera (2005), which presented a record of engine sheds and motive power depots in Britain in the 1950s and '60s. This work returns to the same subject and includes a selection of black and white photographs, along with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912654154Author Geoffrey LloydFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg Limited

There was nothing quite like the Thames-Clyde Express. Covering well over 400 miles, its route stretched from the dreaming spires of London's St Pancras via the Shires of England, the legendary Settle-Carlisle line, Walter Scott's Border Country and...

In 1970 two unlikely characters were part of Flying Scotsman's tour of America and Canada. Describing their adventure of a lifetime are Richard Hinchcliffe, who was the thirteen-year-old son of tour manager George Hinchcliffe, and Bill Wagner, at that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800352537Author Hugh LongworthFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing