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The Train Driver's Manual by Colin Maggs
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88You want to be a steam engine driver? It's not that simple - it's not just a matter of blowing the whistle, releasing the brakes and opening the regulator. Where is the whistle? Which handle... -
Maggs's Railway Curiosities by Colin Maggs
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24What are the wrong kinds of leaves on the track? At which station could you buy your ticket from a booth in a tree? How do smooth wheels grip smooth rails? Why don't locomotive boilers... -
The GWR Bristol to Bath Line by Colin Maggs
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.60It was a railway just waiting to be made. The capital, London, was in the east; Bristol, second city in the land, 110 miles to the west or a sea journey of 672 miles. By the late 1820s, technology... -
Great Britain's Railways: A New History by Colin Maggs
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15Which was the first railway in Great Britain? Certainly not the one engineered by George Stephenson - one of the first was laid down at Wollaton, near Nottingham, open by 1610, long before... -
A History of the Great Western Railway Colin Maggs 9781398125391
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.51The story of the most iconic railway company of the great age of steam. The initials 'GWR' conjure an evocative picture of a Brunswick green locomotive hauling tea-and-cream-coloured coaches... -
Isambard Kingdom Brunel: The Life of an Engineering Genius by Colin Maggs
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78In his time Isambard Kingdom Brunel was the world's greatest engineer. His list of achievements is truly breathtaking: the Thames Tunnel, the first underwater tunnel in the world; the SS Great... -
The Branch Lines of Devon Plymouth, West & North Devon by Colin Maggs
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54The branch lines of Devon were particularly numerous and this second volume on the county covers Plymouth, west and north Devon. They vary from the Turnchapel and Yealmpton commuter lines, to the... -
The Branch Lines of Devon Exeter, South, Central & East Devon by Colin Maggs
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54The branch lines of Devon were particularly numerous and this volume covers those in Exeter and the south, central and eastern parts of the county. They were also tremendously varied, ranging from... -
Steam Trains: The Magnificent History of Britain's Locomotives from Stephenson's Rocket to BR's Evening Star by Colin Maggs 9781445699110
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.51Most people are under a misapprehension: the Rocket was not the first steam engine. Quite a few were built before it, but Stephenson's engine was the first successful steam locomotive. Colin Maggs...