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Through Time Collections de eBooks

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  • Cambridge Main Line Through Time

    Part 1: Cheshunt to Audley End

    par Andy T. Wallis ...
    Collection Livre 1 - Through Time
    The railway at Broxbourne dates from 1840, and that at Bishop's Stortford from 1843; the rest of the line was running by 1845. A busy freight route up until the 1980s, it has seen large growth in the passenger business since electrification and the opening of the Stansted Airport branch. Recent investment by Railtrack and later Network Rail has seen resignalling south of Bishop's Stortford as well ... En savoir plus

    12,29 €

  • Ipswich to Felixstowe Branch Through Time

    par Andy T. Wallis ...
    Collection series Through Time
    The railway at Ipswich dates from 1846 and that at Felixstowe from May 1877. Due to the busy port of Felixstowe the line is still doing extensive business in both passenger and freight traffic today. Like all branch lines the local stations have all lost their goods facilities, but recent investment in the branch has seen new signalling and a loop extension at Derby Road enabling two full-size ... En savoir plus

    12,29 €

  • Stour Valley Railway Through Time

    Marks Tey to Bury St Edmunds & Cavendish

    par Andy T. Wallis ...
    Collection series Through Time
    The Stour Valley line dates from 1849 and has had a long and turbulent history. Extended in 1865, the line reached the zenith of its fortunes under Great Eastern Railway. Thereafter, changes of ownership and cost-cutting programmes saw many services withdrawn and sections of the line closed. This, the first of two books exploring the history of the Stour Valley Railway, covers the line from Marks ... En savoir plus

    12,29 €

  • Colne Valley & Halstead Railway Through Time

    par Andy T. Wallis ...
    Collection series Through Time
    This book takes an in-depth look at the small independent railway that was financed and built by the good citizens of Halstead and its surrounding villages in Essex. The CV&HR came into being in 1860 but struggled financially for a number of years before being put into receivership. However, in the late nineteenth century it made steady progress and reached its financial and traffic peak in the ... En savoir plus

    12,29 €

  • Stour Valley Railway Part 2 Through Time

    Clare to Shelford & Audley End

    par Andy T. Wallis ...
    Collection Livre 2 - Through Time
    This part of the Stour Valley line dates from 1865 and survived for 102 years; the Saffron Walden branch followed a few months later. From the 1920s, both lines fought a rearguard action against road competition. Busy again during the Second World War and for a short period afterwards, both lines benefitted from new diesel motive power by 1959. By then, the writing was on the wall for both lines, ... En savoir plus

    12,29 €

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  • Railroad Advertising

    Riding the Rails Again

    par Tad Burness ...
    Relive the glory years of American railroadingReturn to an era when passenger trains represented the height of luxury and riding the rails was the only way to travel. Classic Railroad Advertising covers nearly a century of memories - of powerful steam locomotives and elegant streamliners, of the brute force of diesel power and the patriotic effort to keep America on the move during a tumultuous ... En savoir plus

    6,88 €

  • Preserved Steam Britain's Heritage Railways Volume Two

    par Geoff Swaine ...
    Geoff Swaine’s superb photography captures the very best of Britain’s preserved steam in action at locations throughout the country. Following on from Britain’s Heritage Railways: Preserved Steam Volume 1, Geoff Swaine presents a new collection of images covering some of Britain’s most celebrated heritage lines: The Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, the Bluebell Railway, the North York Moors ... En savoir plus

    12,29 €

  • The Cromford & High Peak Railway in Colour

    par John Evans ...
    Many audacious and improbable schemes for new railways were dreamed up in the nineteenth century, but surely none matched the plan to link the Cromford Canal with the Peak Forest Canal at Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire using a series of rope-worked inclines. This railway oddity opened in 1831 and somehow survived almost unnoticed until 1967, when there was a flurry of publicity when it closed. The ... En savoir plus

    12,29 €

  • The Last Train to Zona Verde

    My Ultimate African Safari

    par Paul Theroux ...
    The acclaimed author of Dark Star Safari journeys across western Africa in this "thoroughly engrossing [and] at times tragic" travelogue ( Washington Post).Paul Theroux's best-selling Dark Star Safari chronicled his epic overland voyage from Cairo to Cape Town, providing an insider's look at modern Africa. Now, with The Last Train to Zona Verde, he returns to discover how both he and Africa have ... En savoir plus

    12,29 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

    On the tracks of 'The Great Railway Bazaar'

    par Paul Theroux ...
    Paul Theroux's Ghost Train to the Eastern Star is a journey from London to Asia by train.Winner of the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award 2020Thirty years ago Paul Theroux left London and travelled across Asia and back again by train. His account of the journey - The Great Railway Bazaar - was a landmark book and made his name as the foremost travel writer of his ... En savoir plus

    9,49 €

  • Bradshaw’s Handbook

    par George Bradshaw ...
    A facsimile edition of Bradshaw's Handbook of 1863, the book that inspired the BBC television series 'Great British Railway Journeys'.When Michael Portillo began the series 'Great British Railway Journeys', a well-thumbed 150-year-old book shot back to fame. The original Bradshaw's guides had been well known to Victorian travellers and were produced when the British railway network was at its peak ... En savoir plus

    11,61 €

  • The Great Railway Revolution

    The Epic Story of the American Railroad

    par Christian Wolmar ...
    In the 1830s, The United States underwent a second revolution. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line, the first American railroad, set in motion a process which, by the end of the century, would enmesh the vast country in a latticework of railroad lines, small-town stations and magisterial termini, built and controlled the biggest corporations in America.By the middle of the twentieth century, ... En savoir plus

    11,49 €