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  • Steam Around Basingstoke and Salisbury

    by 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 ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • Forget the Anorak

    What Trainspotting Was Really Like

    by Michael G Harvey ...
    Michael Harvey's new book brings to its reader 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 the impetus, as they gave transpotters all the information they required. Forget the Anorak sets out to provide the reader with a personal account of what the hobby entailed - teenagers ... Read more

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  • Full Steam Ahead

    How the Railways Made Britain

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • The Three-Cylinder Compound Locomotives

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • Class 156 DMUs

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • General Motors Type 5

    Class 66 Locomotives

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • False Starts, Near Misses and Dangerous Goods

    Railwaymen's Stories about the Challenges of Running a Railway

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • The Branch Lines of Warwickshire

    by 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 ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Great Western Railway Volume Three Plymouth To Penzance

    by Martin Loader, Stanley C. Jenkins ...
    Series Book 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 ... Read more

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  • The Great Western Railway Volume Two Bristol to Plymouth

    by Stanley C. Jenkins, Martin Loader ...
    Series Book 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, ... Read more

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

    by 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 ... Read more

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