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  • Around the World in 80 Trains

    A 45,000-Mile Adventure

    by Monisha Rajesh ...
    OUT NOW IN PAPERBACK: Moonlight Express, Monisha Rajesh's journey around the world by sleeper train'Monisha Rajesh has chosen one of the best ways of seeing the world. Never too fast, never too slow, her journey does what trains do best. Getting to the heart of things. Prepare for a very fine ride' Michael PalinFrom the cloud-skimming heights of Tibet's Qinghai railway to silk-sheeted splendour on ... Read more

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  • Joseph Brown and His Civil War Ironclads

    The USS Chillicothe, Indianola and Tuscumbia

    by Myron J. Smith, , Jr. ...
    A Scottish immigrant to Illinois, Joseph Brown made his pre-Civil War fortune as a miller and steamboat captain who dabbled in riverboat design and the politics of small towns. When war erupted, he used his connections (including a friendship with Abraham Lincoln) to obtain contracts to build three ironclad gunboats for the U.S. War Department--the Chillicothe, Indianola and Tuscumbia. Often ... Read more

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  • Transportation Engineering

    Volume II: Railways, Airports, Docks and Harbours, Bridges and Tunnels

    by C Venkatramaiah ...
    Transportation Engineering, Volume II deals at length, in five distinct parts, with the engineering aspects of Railways, Airports, Docks and Harbours and Bridges and Tunnels that form part of the undergraduate curriculum in Transportation Engineering and caters to the needs of civil engineering courses offered by technical universities across India. While the first three parts, along with Volume I ... Read more

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  • Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo

    On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo

    by Tim Parks ...
    The best-selling author of Italian Neighbors returns with a wry and revealing portrait of Italian life—by riding its trains.Tim Parks’s books on Italy have been hailed as "so vivid, so packed with delectable details, [they] serve as a more than decent substitute for the real thing" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, in his first Italian travelogue in a decade, he delivers a charming and funny ... Read more

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  • Train Lord

    The Astonishing True Story of One Man's Journey to Getting His Life Back On Track

    by Oliver Mol ...
    The astonishing true story of trust, pain, becoming lost, and finding a way back to yourself despite it all'An intimate preservation of a moment in time, full of personality' THE TIMES__________Life is beautiful - even in the dark . . .Oliver Mol was happily drifting through his twenties when the migraine exploded in his head.Suddenly, he could barely function. He felt marooned. Nothing helpe... ... Read more

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  • The Peking Express

    The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China

    by James M Zimmerman ...
    The thrilling true story of train-robbing revolutionaries and passengers who got more than they paid for in this Murder on the Orient Express–style adventure, set in China’s republican era.In May 1923, when Shanghai publisher and reporter John Benjamin Powell bought a first-class ticket for the Peking Express, he pictured an idyllic overnight journey on a brand-new train of unprecedented luxury ... Read more

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  • Signalman's Morning

    by Adrian Vaughan ...
    Signalman's Morning is the first of a trilogy tracing a love affair with the coal-fired railway, from love at first sight in 1945 to divorce in 1975. Adrian Vaughan, born in Reading in January 1941, fell in love with the entire spectacle of the steam railway. It was the Greatest Free Show on Earth. It had drama, it had wonderful peace and relaxation, it was musical and it had poetry - to those ... Read more

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  • The Branch Lines of East Anglia: Wymondham to Wells-next-the-Sea Branch

    by Andy T. Wallis ...
    Series series The Branch Lines of ...
    By the end of the nineteenth century the railway had reached most parts of East Anglia, with two main lines reaching out from London to Norwich, Cambridge and Kings Lynn, and plenty of small secondary and branch lines filling in the gaps in between. In this informative volume, Andy T. Wallis uses his fascinating collection of photographs and maps to explore the history of the Wymondham–Wells-next ... Read more

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  • Steam Railways

    Final Operations in the Southern Region and the Early Preservation Years

    by David Reed ...
    This book contains previously unpublished photographs from the collection of David Reed, who set out to record the end of steam trains on British Rail’s Southern Region. Also recorded here are steam engines in the locomotive graveyards at Salisbury, Weymouth and Barry, as well as steam engines used by London Transport. The early steam preservation years are covered, including some locations that ... Read more

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  • The End of the Woodhead Route

    Electric Trains Stop Here

    by Stephen Heginbotham ...
    In The End of the Woodhead Route: Electric Trains Stop Here, transport historian Stephen Heginbotham takes a fresh look at this famous and much mourned route. Perhaps the most keenly missed stretch of track in the entire country, the possibility of the Woodhead Route being reopened remains an ever present issue when the state of the nation’s railways is discussed. Utilising a superb selection of ... Read more

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  • Railways Around Brighton in the 1970s and 1980s

    by Andy Gibbs ...
    While Brighton is synonymous with EMUs and commuter trains, over the years there has also been some limited freight and parcels traffic and, eventually, the reintroduced direct services to the Midlands and North West brought further variety to the scene. Andy Gibbs, as a former employee of British Rail and a local to the area, has been able to document the changing rail scene around Brighton over ... Read more

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  • Tanfield Waggonway

    by Rob Langham ...
    Dating back to the 1720s and still partly in use today as the preserved Tanfield Railway, the line has a justifiable claim to be the world’s oldest railway, running on the track bed that 300 years ago was travelled over by horse-drawn coal waggons on wooden rails. In these pages the history of the Tanfield Waggonway is told, from its origins as part of a network of wooden waggonways that ran from ... Read more

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  • Maritime Biloxi

    by Val Husley ...
    Series series Images of America
    Site of the landing of Pierre LeMoyne Sieur d'Iberville in February 1699 and the birthplace of the French colony la Louisiane, Biloxi has been nurtured by the waters of the Gulf of Mexico for more than three hundred years. Located almost due north of the mouth of the Mississippi, on a coast laced with small rivers, bays, and bayous, the historic peninsula city owes much of its fortune and growth ... Read more

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  • Niles Canyon Railways

    by Henry Luna, Pacific Locomotive Association ...
    Series series Images of Rail
    All aboard for this photographic journey through the unique railroad history of Niles Canyon, near the city of Fremont. The melodic wail of the steam whistle first echoed off these canyon walls in 1866 when the Western Pacific Railroad laid track into Niles as part of a planned route from San Jose to Sacramento. That was three years before the transcontinental route from Sacramento to Omaha was ... Read more

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  • 台灣鐵道經典之旅：環島鐵路篇

    The classic train ride of Taiwan

    by 蘇昭旭 ...
    您想了解台灣環島鐵路的風景哪裡最美嗎？哪裡可以看大海、看山嶺、看草原、溪流、橋樑、木造車站，以及鐵道古蹟？本書藉由精美的圖片與文字的導覽，將台灣鐵道之旅百年歷史娓娓道來，介紹台灣的環島鐵路網：縱貫線、山線、海線、屏東線、南迴線、花東線、北迴線、宜蘭線，並附有詳盡的地圖，書內多達600多幅的全彩圖片，深度剖析的觀點，讓您對於鐵道文化有更深層的認識。蘇昭旭老師舊版的『台灣鐵路環島風情』東線與西線篇，於2003年出版之後，受到讀者熱烈的歡迎。然而，隨著2003年北廻線電氣化，2007年台灣高鐵通車， 2014年花東線電氣化，普悠瑪號與太魯閣號新車出現後，台灣鐵道風貌產生了巨大的變化。作者在事隔十一年之後，將這些年來鐵路的紀錄，重新大幅做了改版的新編。回首這十一年中，除了上述的改變，台灣鐵路還面臨鐵路地下化與高架化的改建浪潮，使我們熟悉的這塊土地，鐵道風貌持續在更新與變化。對於時代的進步 ... Read more

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  • The London to Brighton Line Through Time

    by Simon Jeffs ...
    Series series Through Time
    The London to Brighton Line was opened in 1841 by the London & Brighton Railway, providing a service between London Bridge Station and the fashionable South Coast. Although the railway started carrying day trippers, the rapid expansion of the suburbs south of London during the nineteenth century meant that the line (absorbed into the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway) was soon running ... Read more

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  • Tragedy on Galt - The May 2, 1956 CP Rail Crash

    by Paul Langan ...
    The definitive book on the tragic CP Rail Crash May 2nd, 1956, in Galt, Ontario (now Cambridge). William Palmer and Tommy Watson lost their lives in the crash involving two steam trains. Interviews with 4 members of the train crews that were there that day. Sixty-four years later people are still haunted by the images of that fateful day. Includes the full Inquest, photos and interviews with Ken ... Read more

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  • Class 314 EMUs in Scotland

    by Colin J. Howat ...
    Class 314 EMUs were used by British Rail with the reopening of the Argyle Line, which ran under Glasgow Central high-level station. These services commenced from November 1979. The 314s initially worked the Argyle Line between Motherwell and Dalmuir. They were also gradually deployed from 1980 on the rest of the North Glasgow electric system and were initially allocated to Hyndland Depot. They ... Read more

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  • Explore America Aboard Amtrak's Sunset Limited

    American Rail Guides, #4

    by Thomas Baker ...
    Series Book 4 - American Rail Guides
    AMTRAK'S SUNSET LIMITEDLA to New Orleans via Southwest - Mile by Mile Window GuideNever wonder, "What am I looking at?" as you ride Amtrak's Sunset Limited from Los Angeles to New Orleans. This is one of America's great scenic railway journeys. With this Sunset Limited route guide you won't miss a thing!This fully updated Amtrak travel guide 2026 is a mile-by-mile train wi... ... Read more

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  • Boston's Blue Line

    by Frank Cheney ...
    Series series Images of Rail
    Boston's rapid-transit Blue Line covers a distance of 5.94 miles, a twenty-three-minute commute that begins at Bowdoin station in downtown Boston, travels under the harbor, passes Revere Beach, and stops at Wonderland. Today's commuters might be surprised to learn that the line they are riding was once operated by trolley cars and narrow-gauge steam-powered commuter trains, for it was not until ... Read more

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  • The Railways of Northern England in the 1960s

    by Michael Clemens ...
    The Railways of Northern England in the 1960s invites the reader on a nostalgic tour of the North, from Crewe and Doncaster up to the Scottish border, taking in bustling metropolises, industrial towns, military sites, mountains, lakes, viaducts and picturesque villages. The photographs, a mixture of colour and monochrome, were taken between 1955 and 1970 and, with a few exceptions, are presented ... Read more

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  • Sixties Spotting Days Around the Southern Region

    by Kevin Derrick ...
    Series series Sixties Spotting Days
    Sixties Spotting Days Around the Southern Region is a photographic album in full colour, depicting the 1960s with coverage of both steam locomotives and the new traction that was taking over during that great period of change on our railways. These nostalgic photographs are supplemented in the captions with items of news, culture, music and the personalities from the era, which are sure to bring ... Read more

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  • Railroad Depots of Northwest Ohio

    by Mark J. Camp ...
    Series series Images of Rail
    Chartered as early as 1832, Northwestern Ohio railroads were among the first in the Midwest. Toledo, a rapidly developing lake port at the mouth of the Maumee River, was the destination point for many lines; others were just passing through on their way to Chicago and points west. By 1907, 20 lines served the northwestern counties. All had a series of stations along their lines, often with depots ... Read more

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  • Signalman's Trilogy

    by Adrian Vaughan ...
    Adrian Vaughan, born in Reading in January 1941, fell in love with the entire spectacle of the steam railway. It was the Greatest Free Show on Earth. It had drama, it had wonderful peace and relaxation, it was musical and it had poetry – to those lucky enough to be able to appreciate it. Signalman’s Morning is the first of a trilogy tracing a love affair with the coal-fired railway, from love at ... Read more

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