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Trains & railways: general interest
Brand: Pen and Sword Books
The Snowdon Mountain Railway is one of the great narrow gauge railways of North Wales, with thousands of visitors travelling to the summit of Mount Snowdon along the line each year. This book covers the history of this historic and interesting line ..
43.56£
Brand: The History Press
The Southern Railway may not have been the most glamorous of the 'Big Four' companies that emerged from the grouping of 1923, but it was the great innovator. In the 1930s the Southern pioneered the first main-line electrification and created the lar..
28.62£
Brand: Crecy Publishing
The Southern Way Volume 44 ISBN: 9781909328785Publisher: Crecy PublishingImprint: Crecy PublishingPublished date: 05 Oct 2018Language: EnglishNumber of pages: 96Weight: 398gHeight: 272mmWidth: 215mmSpine width: 6mm..
17.00£
Brand: Pen and Sword Books
In 1963 comic duo Flanders and Swann composed Slow Train - a lament for some of the many railway lines proposed for closure by Dr Beeching. Among the destinations listed in their song is the refrain "from St Erth to St Ives". Constructed in 1877 as ..
55.14£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
Opened in 1834, the Stanhope & Tyne Railroad Company's line ran from the limestone district of Weardale, via the collieries of north-west Durham to the mouth of the River Tyne at South Shields. This extraordinary railway used horses, steam locomotiv..
19.93£
Brand: Indiana University Press
Before the widespread popularity of automobiles, buses, and trucks, freight and passenger trains bound the nation together. The Station Agent and the American Railroad Experience explores the role of local frontline workers that kept the country's v..
32.08£
Brand: The History Press
The steam locomotive was a British invention and even today, the world speed record for steam remains with a British locomotive, Mallard. Steam's first significant contribution to British industry was through powering pumping engines for mines. When..
14.56£
Brand: Head of Zeus
The inside story of a marvel of twenty-first-century engineering - and how it went over budget and off the rails In the spring of 2022, an engineering marvel of the twenty-first century - a state-of-the-art cross-London railway first conceived in th..
13.21£
Brand: The History Press
GWR, LMS, LNER and SR: these initials arouse memories of the Cornish Riviera Express, the streamlined Coronation Scot, the streamlined Coronation with its beaver tail, and the Southern Electrics, yet three of these companies only enjoyed a life of 2..
17.05£
Brand: Mainline Maritime
A softback album showcasing 35 years of development at this popular Kent miniature line, by well known writer and photographer Jonathan James. ISBN: 9781900340908Publisher: Mainline & MaritimeImprint: Mainline & MaritimePublished date: 28 Nov 2021DE..
21.86£
Brand: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
This glorious visual celebration of train travel keeps you on the right track with stop-offs at the most important and incredible rail routes from all over the world.Your first stop in The Train Book is the groundbreaking steam locomotives of the 19..
67.43£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
The Stockton & Darlington Railway Company's takeover of half of the 1834 Stanhope & Tyne route, under the guise of the Wear & Derwent Railway, saw the most interesting period in the history of this part of the line. The route, which ran from the lim..
19.90£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
There are very few mainline railway routes that actually cross London. One of the few that does is the West London line between Clapham Junction and Willesden Junction. The route has had its ups and downs over the years but has remained an important..
20.12£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
The Witney Railway was opened from Yarnton Junction to Witney in 1861. The railway was single track throughout, with intermediate stations at Eynsham and South Leigh. In 1873, the East Gloucestershire Railway opened an extension from Witney to Fairf..
19.29£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
Following on from his popular series examining industrial steam in regions of the UK, Gordon Edgar looks at a series of fascinating workings around the world during the final days of steam in industry. Numerous globe-trotting trips in the latter par..
24.03£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
Following on from his popular series examining industrial steam in regions of the UK, Gordon Edgar looks at a series of fascinating workings around the world during the final days of steam in industry. A number of globe-trotting trips in the latter ..
22.73£
The B1 Class 4-6-0 locomotive was Edward Thompson's most enduring design. Built from 1942-1952, the class totalled 410 examples and was a familiar sight across former London & North Eastern Railway territory. Thompson's B1s presents many of the engi..
31.77£
Brand: The History Press
When Jim Body joined Great Northern Railway in 1916, he could never have imagined that it would become 'the family business', with both his son Geoff and his grandson Ian taking to the rails. Through the eyes of three generations of Bodys, the rail ..
18.17£
Brand: Random House
Wryly humorous and quintessentially British, Three Men and a Bradshaw collects the previously unpublished holiday journals of John Freeman, who travelled Britain with his brothers during the 1870s. Each year the trio would settle upon a destination,..
22.86£
Brand: Summersdale Publishers Ltd
Experience the world by train alongside best-selling travel writer Tom Chesshyre, as he takes a whistle-stop tour around the globe in 49 unique journeys Why do people love trains so much? Tom Chesshyre is on a mission to find the answer by experienc..
13.73£
Brand: Pen and Sword Books
The Orange Line, the Ginger Line or the M25 Railway, call it what it what you will, the London Overground, born in 2007, has become one of London's transport success stories. Running complimentary to, and in some places, in combination with, London ..
36.85£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
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 Briti..
19.95£
A comprehensive geographic atlas showing the rail network of Great Britain. ISBN: 9781909431263Publisher: Platform 5Imprint: Platform 5Published date: 11 Oct 2017DEWEY: 912.41DEWEY edition: 23Number of pages: iv, 185Weight: 1046gHeight: 214mmWidth: ..
42.91£
Brand: Schiffer Publishing Ltd.
A lot has happened in the world of railroads since the first train station opened in Darlington, northern England, almost 200 years ago. Today's railroad station buildings are as wonderfully diverse as their locations, ranging from what G. K. Cheste..
49.61£