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  • Border Counties Railway Through Time

    par Roy G. Perkins, Iain Macintosh ...
    Collections series Through Time
    The Border Counties Railway ran from the old railway village of Riccarton Junction on the Waverley Route across the Border and through Northumberland to Hexham. Partly intended to provide access to coal deposits at Plashetts, near Kielder Water, the railway was also linked to a scheme by the Duke of Northumberland to alleviate local hardship. Services began in 1862, some eight years after the Act ... En savoir plus

    $16.69 CAD

  • The Waverley Route Through Time

    par Roy G. Perkins, Iain Macintosh ...
    Collections series Through Time
    The Waverley Route ran from Edinburgh, through the Scottish Borders, to Carlisle. Opening in 1862, the line was closed in 1969 as a result of the Beeching Report; feelings ran so high when it closed that there were protests which delayed the last passenger service on the line by two hours, led to the arrest of the local minister and required the local MP to mediate with the police. However, there ... En savoir plus

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  • Railways and The Raj

    How the Age of Steam Transformed India

    par Christian Wolmar ...
    India was the jewel in the crown of the British Empire. There were vast riches to be exploited and vast numbers of people to be subjugated. How better to achieve these aims than by building a rail network that facilitated the export of raw material and made it easier for troops to travel around the country to tackle uprisings? India joined the railway age late: the first line was not completed ... En savoir plus

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  • Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

    On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar

    par Paul Theroux ...
    In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Theroux recreates an epic journey he took thirty years ago, a giant loop by train (mostly) through Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia. In short, he traverses all of Asia top to bottom, and end to end. In the three decades since he first travelled this route, Asia has undergone phenomenal change. ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • 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

    $12.39 CAD

  • Bradshaw’s Continental Railway Guide (full edition)

    par Bloomsbury Publishing ...
    A facsimile edition of Bradshaw's fascinating guide to Europe's rail network.Bradshaw's descriptive railway handbook of Europe was originally published in 1913 and was the inspiration behind Michael Portillo's BBC television series 'Great Continental Railway Journeys'.It is divided into three sections: timetables for services covering the continent; short guides to the best places to see and to ... En savoir plus

    $32.49 CAD

  • To the Edge of the World

    The Story of the Trans-Siberian Express, the World's Greatest Railroad

    par Christian Wolmar ...
    To 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 improbable origins of the Trans-Siberian railroad, the vital artery for Russian expansion that spans almost 6,000 miles and seven time zones ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Firing the Flying Scotsman and Other Great Locomotives

    Life on the Footplate in the Last Years of Steam

    par Ken Issitt ...
    Remembering 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 to Coltimore and Blink Bonney. The work was hard and conditions were tough but little did Ken know at the time that he was experiencing the last ... En savoir plus

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  • Last Trains

    Dr Beeching and the death of rural England

    par Charles Loft ...
    "The debate about Dr Richard Beeching will rage until the Second Coming – and probably beyond. But in Charles Loft's careful examination of the Beeching Report, we have as fine a study as we are going to possess in the meantime." – Peter Hennessy"Loft's great strength is his judiciousness. He understands the political processes and assesses them fair-mindedly. And his verdict will, I suspect, hold ... En savoir plus

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  • Journey 14: Dublin to Derry

    par Karen Farrington ...
    Collections Livre 14 - Great British Railway Journeys
    A glorious insight into the history, landscape and people of Britain, from The Sunday Times bestseller.The late nineteenth century brought railway fever to Ireland, and Victorian travellers were keen to explore a country rich in myth and mystery. Starting in the beautiful city of Dublin, Michael Portillo travels to the fishing port of Balbriggan, crosses the spectacular Boyne viaduct, and learns ... En savoir plus

    $1.99 CAD

  • Blood on the Tracks

    A History of Railway Crime in Britain

    par David Brandon, Alan Brooke ...
    Between 1835 and the 1850s, railway mania blossomed around Britain. Crime emerged as the railways developed, at first opportunistic crimes such as fare evasion and robberies, but gradually more inventive forms evolved, notably the minor clerk Redpath in the 1850s, whose shameless cooking of the books to live the high life exposed the lack of any kind of accountancy across the railway industry. The ... En savoir plus

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  • China's Great Train

    Beijing's Drive West and the Campaign to Remake Tibet

    par Abrahm Lustgarten ...
    A vivid account of China's unstoppable quest to build a railway into Tibet, and its obsession to transform its land and its peopleIn the summer of 2006, the Chinese government fulfilled a fifty-year plan to build a railway into Tibet. Since Mao Zedong first envisioned it, the line had grown into an imperative, a critical component of China's breakneck expansion and the final maneuver in ... En savoir plus

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