Railroads category: 1183 books
Chinese Steam
The Last Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
China was the last bastion of the steam railway, with construction of new steam locomotives for industrial use continuing up to the end of 1999. Even now a few locomotives struggle on at collieries and other industrial premises, but this is likely to end very soon as boiler overhauls are almost impossible...
British Steam Military Connections
LNER Steam Locomotives & Tornado
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2019
In Great Britain there existed a practice of naming steam railway locomotives. The names chosen covered many and varied subjects. However, a large number of those represented direct links with military personnel, regiments, squadrons, naval vessels, aircraft, battles and associated historic events....
by Ewan Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
The Kyle of Lochalsh Line was opened in 1870 to connect the ferry terminus at Stromeferry on Scotland's west coast with Dingwall and Inverness on the east coast. It had been intended to reach Kyle of Lochalsh but the company ran out of money, and the Highland Railway would open an extension to the...
by Fred Kerr
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
When British Railways (BR) initiated its Modernization Plan in 1954 it had little experience of diesel locomotives thus initiated a Pilot Scheme to trial combinations of the three elements comprised within a locomotive – the engine, transmission and body.
The initial orders for 174 locomotives...
Bahnhof
Ein Ort
Language: German
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Wie weit muss man sich von zu Hause fortbewegen, um ein Reisender oder eine Reisende zu werden? In sechzehn Kapiteln über diverse Bahnhofstätigkeiten wie das Einkaufen, Abfahren, Schlafen, Essen oder Arbeiten fächert der erste Band der Serie 'Ein Ort' den Bahnhof als einzigartigen Schauplatz auf....
Trains
Vehicles, #3
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
This is a picture book for all train and tram loving children and adults. It is a small tour though several countries.
It is not the usual train picture book.
It is seen from the toddler's perspective.
Rather, it is what we saw as we passed by with the interested toddler. The...
Starlight Specials
The Overnight Anglo-Scottish Express
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
In the 1950s and 1960s these cheap return excursion trains ran overnight between London and both Glasgow and Edinburgh, departing on Friday evenings and then returning on Saturday evenings a week or a fortnight later. The main purpose of these nocturnal trains was to compete with the Anglo-Scottish...
Massacre at Duffy’s Cut
Tragedy & Conspiracy on the Pennsylvania Railroad
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Fifty-seven Irish immigrant laborers arrived in the port of Philadelphia in June 1832 to work on Pennsylvania's Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad. Contractor Philip Duffy soon hired them to work a stretch of track in rural Chester County known as Duffy's Cut. They all perished within six weeks. For...
by Michael Mather
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
CELEBRATING FIFE’S RAILWAYS. By the end of the nineteenth century Fife, like most of central Scotland, had a fairly extensive railway network serving the towns and country, moving the people and products of its varied industries and agriculture around. In this comprehensive book, local photographer...
British Railways in Transition
The Corporate Blue and Grey Period 1964–1997
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
This is a book about the transition from steam to diesel and electric traction on British Railways, covering a period from 1960-1970. The author Jim Blake, took a huge number of pictures during this period, covering all aspects of the railway and its operations, both in the London area, where he lived...
by Kenny Barclay
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
The 1980s and 1990s were exciting times for British Rail. For many years British Rail had been structured into regions and the livery for rolling stock consisted of blue and grey or just plain blue. Now, however, the railways of Britain were entering a new chapter of sectorisation, restructuring and...
L M S Locomotive Design and Development
The Life and Work of Tom Coleman
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
In 1958 one of Britain`s greatest locomotive designers died without public fanfare or recognition, mourned only by his family. Yet William Stanier, arguably one of our greatest engineers and his leader, said of him that without his Chief Draughtsman all he achieved with the LMS would not have been...
Flügelradkathedrale und Zuckerrübenbahnhof
Kleine Geschichten zu 222 Bahnhöfen in Europa
Language: German
Release Date: August 14, 2019
Das Buch enthält Anekdoten, kleine Geschichten und interessante Fakten zu 222 Bahnhöfen in Europa. Kleine Anekdoten, interessante Fakten und historische und aktuelle Geschichten zu 222 europäischen Bahnstationen von Amsterdam bis Zagreb, von Helsinki bis Lissabon. Für alle, die auf Bahnhöfe(n) abfahren.
Der Schicksalsbahnhof jenseits der Berge
Kleine Geschichten zu 111 Bahnhöfen in den Alpenländern
Language: German
Release Date: July 30, 2019
Anekdoten, kleine Geschichten und interessante Fakten zu 111 Bahnhöfen in den Alpenländern Österreich, Schweiz, Liechtenstein sowie in Südtirol. Der zweite von fünf Bänden zu den 1001 interessantesten Bahnhöfen der Welt.