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eBooks Chemins de fer

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  • Whistle

    par Linwood Barclay ...
    'Terrific' STEPHEN KING'First-class storytelling. Hooked from the first page, I raced through the book in one sitting' Five Star Reader Review'Dark and thoroughly absorbing' Five Star Reader Review* * * * *When you hear it, be afraid…Annie Blunt and her young son Charlie moved to their house in upstate New York to put a dreadful year behind them. The death of her husband and a scanda... ... En savoir plus

    6,69 €

  • Vanderbilt

    The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

    par Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe ...
    “Splendid. . . . haunting and beautifully written.” — Washington PostThe #1 New York Times bestselling Gilded Age chronicle of the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty, from CNN anchor and journalist Anderson Cooper and historian and novelist Katherine Howe.One of the Washington Post's Notable Works of NonfictionWhen eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to ... ... En savoir plus

    11,99 €

  • With a Vengeance

    A jaw-dropping and addictive thriller packed with twists

    par Riley Sager ...
    One train. No stops. A deadly game of survival and revenge.Twelve years ago, six people destroyed Anna Matheson's family. Now, she's ready for retribution, and she's laid a trap to get revenge on them all . . .One train. Six passengers. Fourteen hours with no escape until everyone's paid the price.But trapped on board as the train barrels through the night, it becomes clear Anna's not the only ... En savoir plus

    7,99 €

  • A ferrovia em Portugal: Passado, presente e futuro

    par Francisco Furtado ...
    No século XIX, o comboio significava progresso. No século seguinte, entrou em declínio. E hoje? Sabia que Portugal é o país europeu onde o peso do comboio no movimento de mercadorias mais aumentou na última década e o principal operador do setor é rentável? E que a tendência recente é de crescimento no transporte de passageiros, sobretudo no longo curso entre as principais cidades e no serviço ... En savoir plus

    2,49 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Lenin on the Train

    par Catherine Merridale ...
    THE TIMES, THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016'Twice I missed my stop on the Tube reading this book... this is a jewel among histories' David Aaronovitch, The Times'The suberb, funny, fascinating story of Lenin's trans-European rail journey to power and how it shook the world' - Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard Books of the YearA gripp... ... En savoir plus

    9,49 €

  • Bradshaw’s Continental Railway Guide (full edition)

    par George Bradshaw ...
    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

    21,00 €

  • On the Wrong Line: How Ideology and Incompetence Wrecked Britain's Railways

    par Christian Wolmar ...
    Britain's rail privatisation was one of the greatest political failures of recent history. A well-functioning industry was torn apart to satisfy political dogma and privatised in a way that not only compromised safety and wrecked performance but also resulted in financial melt-down.In this acclaimed book, an update to his earlier work Broken Rails, Christian Wolmar reveals the causes of the ... En savoir plus

    8,49 €

  • Tooele Valley Railroad

    par Emma Louise Penrod ...
    Collection series Images of Rail
    Shortly after the International Smelter offered economic salvation to Tooele�s struggling desert community, the Tooele Valley Railroad became the town artery. Though originally built in 1908 to connect the smelter to the Union Pacific and Western Pacific lines west of town, the railroad became central to daily life. Hundreds of local workers rode it to and from work each day. As technology ... En savoir plus

    11,16 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Life of a Steam Railway Photographer

    The Reverend Alan Newman

    par Colin Maggs, MBE ...
    On one of his extensive trips in England, he saw no less than 2218 locomotives in three days - a feat present day enthusiasts are unable to perform. As Alan developed, so did the scope of his railway interest and he was broad minded enough to seek venerable locomotives on the SR and LNER. Finally, and almost at the eleventh hour, he discovered the world of industrial locomotives. Alan had the good ... En savoir plus

    15,85 €

  • British Diesel Locomotives of the 1950s and ‘60s

    par Greg Morse ...
    Collection Livre 825 - Shire Library
    A beautifully illustrated guide to the trains that took over as the Age of Steam was drawing to a close in the 1950s. Ideal for anyone interested in Britain's railways and the evolution of rail transport.After the Second World War, the drive for the modernisation of Britain's railways ushered in a new breed of locomotive: the Diesel. Diesel-powered trains had been around for some time, but faced ... En savoir plus

    8,23 €

  • Eastern Steam Days Remembered

    par Kevin Derrick ...
    Continuing the Steam Days Remembered series with Eastern Steam Days Remembered, Kevin Derrick takes us on a leisurely ramble back around both the Eastern and North Eastern regions during the 1950s and 1960s in this volume. Journeying towards the eastern counties of the Midlands and far beyond, this reproduction of the very best quality colour photographs from the 1950s and 1960s across the Eastern ... En savoir plus

    12,25 €

  • British Rail in the 1980s and 1990s: Diesel Locomotives and DMUs

    par Kenny Barclay ...
    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 ultimately privatisation. We were introduced to exciting new bold liveries like Network SouthEast’s ... En savoir plus

    12,25 €

  • Unlocking the Potential of Railways

    A Railway Strategy for CAREC, 2017-2030

    par Asian Development Bank ...
    About 25,000 kilometers of railway corridors connect countries within the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) region. CAREC countries export mostly to the European Union (33% of exports in 2015) and the People's Republic of China (19%), but growing export-import activity is underserved. The rail network does not match changing trade patterns. Improved rail service quality is needed ... En savoir plus

    4,83 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • West Highland Extension Great Railway Journeys Through Time

    par John McGregor ...
    Collection series Great Railway Journeys Through Time
    The Mallaig Extension was approved in 1894 to provide a continuation of the West Highland route for the benefit of the fishing industry on Scotland's west coast. It revived, more ambitiously, the Fort William to Roshven line lost in 1889. With controversial state aid in place, construction began in 1897 and the Extension was opened in 1901. Steam was reintroduced on the line in 1984 and the ... En savoir plus

    12,25 €

  • Rails in Rochester and Monroe County

    par Richard "Dick" Chait ...
    Collection series Images of Rail
    From photography to farming and from medicine to music, Rochester and the county in which it resides, Monroe County, are known throughout the world. This book brings to life the role that rail transportation had in developing an economy that made these contributions possible. By 1900, some of the county's biggest railroads had been drawn to the Rochester and Monroe County markets. They attracted ... En savoir plus

    11,16 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Hungarian Railways

    par Dave Smith, Steve Madden ...
    Hungary offers the railway photographer a wealth of different trains to document; alongside the state railway operator MAV there are a number of private companies operating all over the country, such as GYSEV, Floyd and AWT. There are also a number of locomotives from the seven countries that border Hungary that work deep into the country. Floyd is a company well known to British railway ... En savoir plus

    12,25 €

  • 逐夢藍天：國產C919大型客機飛翔記

    par 劉斌 ...
    2017年5月5日，中國製造的大型客機C919在上海浦東機場衝上雲霄，成功完成首飛，實現了中國民航里程碑式發展，這一天，中國大飛機驚豔世界。那麼，C919大型客機是怎樣研製出來的？它的背後有哪些感人故事？本書作者多次奔赴現場，採訪了工程師、總裝員工、試飛人員等一線工作者，用大量第一手材料向你一一展現。同時通過鮮為人知的真實記錄和理性詮釋，給公眾普及一些航空方面的知識。 ... En savoir plus

    9,71 €

  • The Deportation Express

    A History of America through Forced Removal

    par Ethan Blue ...
    Collection Livre 61 - American Crossroads
    A history of the United States' systematic expulsion of "undesirables" and immigrants, told through the lives of the passengers who travelled from around the world, only to be locked up and forced out aboard America's first deportation trains.The United States, celebrated as a nation of immigrants and the land of the free, has developed the most extensive system of imprisonment and deportation ... En savoir plus

    23,89 €

  • Railroads of Pennsylvania

    par Lorett Treese ...
    Regional histories of the great railroads. Rail stories of the people and events that shaped history. Includes Rails to Trails paths, tourist attractions, and more. ... En savoir plus

    14,05 €

  • L'Orient-Express

    Du voyage extraordinaire aux illusions perdues

    par Blanche El Gammal ...
    S’il est un train qui a fait couler beaucoup d’encre, c’est bien l’Orient-Express. Aucune étude sur les grands trains qui ne le cite, des dizaines de monographies qui lui sont consacrées. Les fantasmes qu’il suscite, alimentés par une presse déférente et une littérature facile, sont bien connus. Pourtant, tout n’a pas été dit à son sujet. Ce livre est le premier à fouiller un corpus d’une richesse ... En savoir plus

    31,99 €

  • Transport Revolutions

    Moving People and Freight Without Oil

    par Richard Gilbert, Anthony Perl ...
    Modern societies rely upon prodigious amounts of oil for transport activity. The impacts over the near term of increasing oil scarcity and higher prices on transport will be among the major challenges facing humanity and will require a revolution in thinking about how we move people and goods.Transport Revolutions analyzes five prior episodes of rapid and radical change in the way people and goods ... En savoir plus

    17,19 €

  • 25 Years of the Class 66

    par John Jackson ...
    The ubiquitous Class 66 locomotive first emerged onto the British freight scene in 1998, with many people getting their first close-up look at these engines at the Open Day at Toton in August that year. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the class in operation in Britain was celebrated in 2023. Since pioneer 66001 went on display at the, then, EWS-owned depot back in 1998, over 400 of these machines ... En savoir plus

    13,17 €

  • The Station Master's Wife

    A Scandalous Life Exposed

    par SUSAN K. DEMARINIS ...
    From respectable station master's wife to secret madam, Alice was a woman of exceptional resourcefulness in the the face of upheaval, betrayal, and prejudice. In 1887, Ashland, Oregon, this daughter of a prominent pioneer family, witnessed the historic completion of the United States Transcontinental Railroad, a circle of steel that enveloped the United States, when the final Golden Spike was ... En savoir plus

    9,36 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • EMUs A History

    par Hugh Llewelyn ...
    From nationalisation in 1948, British Railways built huge numbers of EMUs for suburban and short/medium-distance main line express duties, initially of pre-nationalisation design. In 1954 the Standard Mark 1 type was introduced, but was obsolete by the late 1960s. More EMUs were needed to replace life-expired pre-nationalisation sets still working as well as to provide for new electrification ... En savoir plus

    15,85 €