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Final Journey: The Untold Story of Funeral Trains by Nicolas Wheatley
RRP: $39.00$28.68This new history reveals the previously untold story of why and how trains have been used to transport the dead, enabling their burial in a place of significance to the bereaved. Profusely illustrated with many images, some never previously published,... -
The Railway Experience by Paul Atterbury
RRP: $19.48$13.86Britain 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... -
L N E R 4-6-0 Locomotives: Their Design, Operation and Performance by David Maidment 9781526772541
RRP: $68.25$52.05L N E R 4-6-0 Tender Mixed Traffic Locomotives covers the design, construction, operation and performance of all 4-6-0 locomotives that ran on the London & North Eastern Railway between 1923 and 1947 and the LNER designed engines that ran on BR's... -
Union Pacific Railroad Heritage by Beth Anne Keates 9781625451170
RRP: $52.65$38.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625451170Author Beth Anne KeatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Fonthill Media LLcPublisher Fonthill Media LLcWeight(grams) 621gDimensions(mm)... -
Lost Tramways of Wales: North Wales by Peter Waller 9781912213139
RRP: $17.53$12.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912213139Author Peter WallerFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg Limited -
Lost Lines of England: Birmingham to Oxford by Roger Norfolk 9781912654871
RRP: $17.53$13.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912654871Author Roger NorfolkFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg Limited -
Blood, Iron and Gold: How the Railways Transformed the World by Christian Wolmar
RRP: $48.75$34.36The 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... -
Stealing the General by Russell Bonds 9781594160783
$40.35A thoroughly entertaining history of one of the most daring raids of the American Civil War. On April 12th 1862, during the American Civil War, a group of Union volunteers infiltrated the Confederate stronghold of Georgia and stole a steam engine named... -
Discovering Britain's First Railways: A Guide to Horse-Drawn Tramroads and Waggonways by Dr. Jones Mark 9780752462738
RRP: $19.48$14.29Discovering Britain's First Railways is devoted to the history, rediscovery and exploration of Britain's first railways, examining its network of over 1,500 miles of horse-drawn tramroads and waggonways. This essential guide not only describes their... -
Britain's Lost Tragedies Uncovered by Richard M. Jones
RRP: $25.33$18.27Is any disaster really forgotten?It is never forgotten by the survivors who lived through the trauma. It is never forgotten by the emergency services who tried to save the day. It is never forgotten by the relatives of those who never came home.Britain's... -
Rails Around the World: Two Centuries of Trains and Locomotives by Brian Solomon
RRP: $54.60$37.42In this visually glorious chronological history, prolific railroad historian and photographer Brian Solomon curates a selection of the world's most significant trains and locomotives over the last two centuries. Hop aboard to see trains and locomotives... -
Railways by Christian Wolmar 9781788549851
RRP: $25.33$17.73From Britain's most popular railway historian, a concise, authoritative and fast-paced telling of how the railways changed the world. The arrival of the railways in the first half of the nineteenth century and their subsequent spread across every one... -
Railways of Ayrshire by Gordon Thomson
RRP: $33.13$26.91In the early 1800s, Ayrshire was already established as a prosperous, mainly rural agricultural county. The realization that there was abundant coal and (to a lesser extent) iron ore deposits to be exploited, together with the coming of the Industrial... -
To the Edge of the World by Christian Wolmar 9781610396363
RRP: $42.88$31.71To the Edge of the World is an adventure in travel--full of extraordinary personalities, more than a century of explosive political, economic, and cultural events, and almost inconceivable feats of engineering. Christian Wolmar passionately recounts the... -
The Meon Valley Railway: A Rural Backwater: Pt. 2 by Kevin Robertson
RRP: $33.05$24.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906419684Author Kevin RobertsonFormat HardbackPage Count 84Imprint Noodle BooksPublisher Crecy Publishing -
An Inspector Recalls: Memoirs of a Railway Detective by Graham Satchwell 9780750966405
RRP: $39.00$28.68Born in inner-city Birmingham, from an 'impeccable working class pedigree', Graham Satchwell was diagnosed with a serious illness at age 7 - a condition which should have barred his entry to the police force. Forty-two years later, he was Britain's... -
The Great Railroad Revolution by Christian Wolmar 9781610393478
RRP: $38.98$27.32America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line--the first American railroad--in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries... -
Narrow Gauge in the Tropics: The Railways of the Dutch East Indies, 1864-1942 by Augustus J. Veenendaal
RRP: $78.00$68.87Narrow Gauge in the Tropics is the first comprehensive history of railways and tramways in the Dutch East Indies (modern Indonesia) from breaking ground in 1864 to the invasion of the Japanese during World War II.During the mid-19th century under... -
The Steam Rail Motors of the Great Western Railway by Ken Gibbs
RRP: $33.13$24.65Self-propelled carriages were a major innovation at the beginning of the twentieth century, and the GWR was quick to develop a large number of steam motor cars to link farms and scattered villages across the South West to the new branch lines. Their... -
Early Japanese Railways 1853-1914: Engineering Triumphs That Transformed Meiji-Era Japan by Dan Free
RRP: $27.28$19.89Early Japanese Railways 1853-1914 is a cultural and engineering history of railway building in Japan during the Meiji era.The importance of early railways in the industrialization of the United States and Europe is a fact all of us are familiar with. To... -
Lost Tramways of Wales: Cardiff by Peter Waller 9781912213122
RRP: $17.53$12.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912213122Author Peter WallerFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg Limited -
Stephensons' Rocket and the Rainhill Trials by Richard Gibbon 9780747808039
RRP: $15.58$12.95George and Robert Stephenson's Rocket, is arguably the most enduring silhouette in railway history. But why was Rocket that special? And why does the surviving locomotive look so unlike the striking yellow image that we are familiar with from books,... -
Firing the Flying Scotsman and Other Great Locomotives: Life on the Footplate in the Last Years of Steam by Ken Issitt 9780752480435
RRP: $19.48$14.29Remembering the romance of a bygone era, with all the dirt, grime and risks the job entailed! Fast train fireman Ken Issitt worked on the footplate from the late 1940s to 1960, experiencing firing some of the greatest locomotives from the Flying Scotsman... -
Rex Conway's Southern Steam Journey: Volume Two by Rex Conway 9780752457581
RRP: $38.98$29.43Rex Conway's first book, Rex Conway's Steam Album, was a wonderful miscellany of images that introduced a remarkable archive of railway photographs. This book takes the reader on a steam-hauled journey on the Southern Region throughout its journey around... -
Union Pacific Big Boys by Jim Wrinn 9781627007948
RRP: $85.78$62.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627007948Author Jim WrinnFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Kalmbach MediaPublisher Kalmbach MediaWeight(grams) 1116gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 20mm -
Steam Around Plymouth by Mary Mills
RRP: $29.23$22.00The era of the steam locomotive at work in the city of Plymouth evokes many memories. This was Great Western territory, but the Southern played a part as well. Besides sharing a common station, each company had its own terminus and locomotive sheds... -
Early Victorian Railway Excursions by Susan Major 9781473835283
RRP: $48.75$24.08There is a widely held belief that Thomas Cook invented the railway excursion. In fact the railway excursion is almost as old as the railway itself, dating back to the 1830s, when hordes of people from one town would descend on another for a 'cheap trip'... -
Confessions of A Steam-Age Ferroequinologist: Journeys on BR's London Midland Region by Keith Widdowson 9780750991971
RRP: $33.13$24.65ferroequinologist (noun) Someone who studies the 'Iron Horse' (i.e. trains and locomotives). From the Latin ferrus 'iron' and equine 'horse' + -logist As the British steam era drew to a close, a young Keith Widdowson set out to travel on as many... -
Railways of the North Pennines: The Rise and Fall of the Railways Serving the North Pennine Orefield by Tom Bell
RRP: $38.98$28.65This illustrated history describes how the two pioneering railways of northern England, the Stockton and Darlington and Newcastle and Carlisle railways, developed from unsuccessful canal proposals and how they, with the ill-fated Stanhope and Tyne... -
Railways Through the Ages: A selection of Industrial and Passenger Railways Past & Present by John Legg Ian Peaty
RRP: $58.50$40.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857945973Author John Legg Ian PeatyFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group -
The LMS Story by David Wragg 9780752488059
RRP: $19.48$14.29The London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) claimed to be the largest private enterprise concern in the British Empire. It was Britain's largest steam railway and the only one to operate in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as... -
After Promontory: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Transcontinental Railroading by Center for Railroad Photography and Art
RRP: $105.30$94.28Celebrating the sesquicentennial anniversary of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States, After Promontory: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Transcontinental Railroading profiles the history and heritage of this historic... -
Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed an Ocean by Les Standiford
RRP: $37.05$22.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (South-East Nonfiction) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9781400049479Author Les StandifordFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint... -
Riding Yorkshire's Final Steam Trains: Journeys on BR'S North Eastern Region by Keith Widdowson
RRP: $31.18$23.32Keith Widdowson visited the North Eastern Region of British Railways on over forty occasions during the final eighteen months of steam powered passenger services. With the odd exceptions (usually for railtours) most of the locomotives were neglected, run... -
Lost Lines: Aberystwyth to Carmarthen by Tom Ferris
RRP: $17.53$12.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909823198Author Tom FerrisFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg Limited -
LMS/BR Class 7 4-6-0 Rebuilds: The Rebuilt Jubilee, Patriot and Royal Scot Locomotives by David Clarke
RRP: $48.75$40.68A comprehensive look at the LMS/BR Class 7 4-6-0 rebuilt locomotives, including the rebuilt Jubilees, the rebuilt Patriots and the rebuilt Royal Scots. The book includes hundreds of photographs and feedback from the original crews that operated the... -
British Railway DMU's in Colour for the Modeller and Historian by Gavin Morrison 9780711034723
RRP: $33.13$18.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780711034723Author Gavin MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Ian Allan PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Shed Side on Merseyside: The Last Days of Steam by Kenn Pearce
RRP: $39.00$28.68In the 1950s Merseyside was a Mecca for steam enthusiasts; over 400 locomotives were allocated to the seven depots that serviced Liverpool and Birkenhead. This book covers the last twenty years of steam in Merseyside, when the area was the centre of... -
Loco Motion: The World's Oldest Steam Locomotives by Michael Bailey 9780752491011
RRP: $48.75$37.34The steam locomotive is a machine that has inspired imagination, innovation and invention from the time of its origination and continues to evoke passion in enthusiasts today. Here Michael R. Bailey, expertly and in fascinating detail, describes the... -
Saving the West Somerset Railway by John Parsons
RRP: $25.33$18.27The West Somerset Railway opened in 1862, linking Taunton, Watchet and Minehead. Popular with tourists travelling the Somerset coast, it was nonetheless closed by British Rail in 1971. This book tells the story of the small group of enthusiasts, many of...