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  • Steam Around Basingstoke and Salisbury

    de Charlie Verrall ...
    Series series Steam Around ...
    Basingstoke and Salisbury are important rail centres on what was originally the London & South Western Railway, and later the Southern Railway and finally the South Western Section of the Southern Region. Basingstoke is where the main lines from Waterloo diverge, to Southampton, Bournemouth and Weymouth, and to Exeter and the West of England. Basingstoke also acts as an interface between the ... Leer más

    $183 MXN

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $155 MXN

  • Forget the Anorak

    What Trainspotting Was Really Like

    de Michael G Harvey ...
    Michael Harvey's book brings to its readers the excitement of trainspotting in the 1950s and '60s, the hobby's heyday. It was the advent of the famous Ian Allan ABC Locospotters books that really gave the hobby its impetus, as they gave trainspotters all the information they required. Forget the Anorak sets out to provide the reader with a personal account of what the hobby entailed - teenagers ... Leer más

    $134 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Full Steam Ahead

    How the Railways Made Britain

    de Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman ...
    The Age of Railways was an era of extraordinary change which utterly transformed every aspect of British life – from trade and transportation to health and recreation.Full Steam Ahead reveals how the world we live in today is entirely shaped by the rail network, charting the glorious evolution of rail transportation and how it left its mark on every aspect of life, landscape and culture. Peter ... Leer más

    $362 MXN

  • The Three-Cylinder Compound Locomotives

    de A. Oliver ...
    First published in 1928, this is a classic guide to a the Three-Cylinder Compound Locomotive, a type of steam-powered engine used in trains. The first example of such an engine was built for the old Midland Railway in January, 1902. With detailed explanations and simple diagrams, this volume provides a complete overview of the engine and its inner workings. Highly recommended for vintage ... Leer más

    $189 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Class 156 DMUs

    de Rich Mackin ...
    The Class 156 (Super Sprinter) is a Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) ordered by British Rail and built between 1987 and 1989 by Metro-Cammell to replace the aging first-generation ‘Heritage’ DMUs. A total of 114 of these units were produced at the Washwood Heath works in Birmingham and have enjoyed wide and varied careers across the UK, from Scotland to East Anglia and South Wales. Here, author Rich ... Leer más

    $215 MXN

  • General Motors Type 5

    Class 66 Locomotives

    de Ross Taylor ...
    Over the past generation the Class 66 has been one of Britain’s most successful and reliable diesel locomotives. After being introduced in the late 1990s, the Class has been involved in various new contracts and has taken over from the older generation classes such as the Class 56. Now operated by five rival companies, the Class keeps on growing with more success. The Class was first introduced to ... Leer más

    $215 MXN

  • False Starts, Near Misses and Dangerous Goods

    Railwaymen's Stories about the Challenges of Running a Railway

    de Geoff Body, Ian Body ...
    Running a railway is a complex business beset with drama. The operation of heavy equipment at speed, twenty-four hours a day, across the full length of the country and using extremely technical signaling, track and mechanical engineering is no mean feat and throws up a constant stream of challenges. Fortunately, the highly professional railway staff are ready to deal with these daily obstacles ... Leer más

    $212 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Branch Lines of Warwickshire

    de Colin Maggs, MBE ...
    Series series The Branch Lines of ...
    The branch lines of Warwickshire had unusually interesting and evocative station names, from the pleasant and graceful Henley-in-Arden and Salford Priors to Maxstoke, which suggests a particularly efficient locomotive fireman. The branch lines showed a great diversity of railway activity, from a horseworked line carrying passengers and goods to a railway worked on the principle of descending ... Leer más

    $262 MXN

  • The Great Western Railway Volume Three Plymouth To Penzance

    de Martin Loader, Stanley C. Jenkins ...
    Series Libro 3 - The Great Western Railway ...
    The Cornwall Railway was authorised on 3 August 1846 with the aim of constructing a broad gauge rail link between Plymouth, Truro and Falmouth. After many vicissitudes, the railway was ceremonially opened between Plymouth and Truro on 2 May 1859. Meanwhile, further to the west, an entirely separate undertaking known as the West Cornwall Railway had been sanctioned with powers for the construction ... Leer más

    $231 MXN

  • The Great Western Railway Volume Two Bristol to Plymouth

    de Stanley C. Jenkins, Martin Loader ...
    Series Libro 2 - The Great Western Railway ...
    As authorised in 1835, the Great Western Railway extended from London to Bristol, but from the very earliest days, ambitious promoters were planning a whole series of extensions to destinations such as Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Cornwall and South Wales. These extensions were, in most cases, built by allied or subsidiary companies such as the Bristol & Exeter Railway, which, as its name suggested, ... Leer más

    $231 MXN

  • Festiniog Railway: From Slate Railway to Heritage Operation, 1921–2014

    de Peter Johnson ...
    Opened in 1836 as a horse tramway using gravity to carry slate from Blaenau Ffestiniog to Porthmadog, by the 1920s the Festiniog Railway had left its years of technical innovation and high profits long behind. After the First World War, the railways path led inexorably to closure, to passengers in 1939 and goods in 1946.After years of abandonment, visionary enthusiasts found a way to take control ... Leer más

    $193 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus