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Through Time eBook Series

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  • The Glasgow, Cowal & Bute Route Through Time

    by Chris Hogg, Lynn Patrick ...
    Series series Through Time
    The Glasgow, Cowal & Bute Route follows the development of the railways on the southern shores of the River Clyde, describing their influence on life in the towns and resorts of the river and Firth. The book also examines shipping, steamboats, ferries and tramways during a journey westwards from Glasgow via Paisley, Bishopton, Langbank, Port Glasgow, Greenock, Gourock and Inverkip to Wemyss Bay, ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

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  • The GWR Story

    by Rosa Matheson ...
    The Great Western Railway – quickly coming to be known as 'God's Wonderful Railway' – was once regarded as the most advanced in the world. Engineered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel it was initially designed to connect Bristol to London and came to develop a distinct character all of its own, one of the many reasons why it remains a much-loved and popular area of interest. This book traces its history ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Practical Garden Railways

    by Peter Jones ...
    Have you always wanted to run your own railway? Does your indoor model railway leave you with a desire to fill your nostrils with the smell of steam and hot oil on a winter's morning? If the answer to any of these questions is 'yes' then you probably need to build yourself a garden railway, and you certainly need to read this book! Peter Jones is one of the best-known names in the world of garden ... Read more

    $20.09 USD

  • Baldwin Locomotives

    by Brian Solomon ...
    Philadelphia-based Baldwin began designing and building steam locomotives in the 1830s and gave the U.S. many of its most significant and famous types of steam, and diesel-electric motive power. This history of Baldwin is illustrated with a large selection of rare, superb builder's photos and other publicity images from the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, with the book's large page size ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Bradshaw's Railway Handbook Vol 2

    Tours in North and South Wales (Plus Western and Southwestern England and parts of Ireland)

    by George Bradshaw ...
    'Hard to put down ... truthful and opinionated, often funny but never predictable ... the finest travelling companion.' – Michael Portillo on BradshawA superb guide to Britain's villages, towns and connecting railways, dating from 1866. Unavailable for many years and much sought after, this classic guide book is now faithfully reissued for a new generation. Bradshaw's Railway Handbook was ... Read more

    Was $4.99 USD Now $3.99 USD

  • Death Ride from Fenchurch Street and Other Victorian Railway Murders

    by Arthur V. Sellwood, Mary Sellwood ...
    Death Ride From Fenchurch Street and Other Victorian Railway Murders offers a compelling account of the first murders to be committed on Britain's railways, at a time when the terrified screams of the victims were drowned out by the sound of the train's steam. This book vividly describes how passengers were helpless if attacked in the train's box-like compartments, preventing them from summoning ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • Railway Guns

    British and German Guns at War

    by John Goodwin ...
    In the nineteenth century the War Office showed little interest in developing large heavy artillery for its land forces, preferring instead to equip its warships with the biggest guns. Private initiatives to mount a gun on a railway truck pulled by a steam engine were demonstrated before military chiefs in the Southern Counties, but not taken up. However, the development of longer-range guns, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • London Midland Steam Days Remembered

    by Kevin Derrick ...
    London Midland Steam Days Remembered offers the very best quality colour photographs of steam from the 1950s and 1960s across the region, with not only Stanier’s fabulous Duchesses but a full supporting cast of steam from the lower ranks to be enjoyed. These include Royal Scots, Jubilees, Lizzies, and Black Fives, along with a fine collection of Standards and Ivatts and visiting engines from other ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • The Wire Devils

    by Frank Packard ...
    Two switch lights twinkled; one at the east, and one at the west end of the siding. For the rest all was blackness. Half way between the switch lights, snuggled close against the single-tracked main line, the station, little more than a shanty and too insignificant to boast a night operator, loomed up shadowy and indistinct. Away to the westward, like jagged points sticking up into the night and ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rails in the Road

    A History of Tramways in Britain and Ireland

    by Oliver Green ...
    There have been passenger tramways in Britain for 150 years, but it is a rollercoaster story of rise, decline and a steady return. Trams have come and gone, been loved and hated, popular and derided, considered both wildly futuristic and hopelessly outdated by politicians, planners and the public alike. Horse trams, introduced from the USA in the 1860s, were the first cheap form of public ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Glasgow Central Station Through Time

    by Michael Meighan ...
    Series series Through Time
    Originally opened in August 1879, Central Station became a Glasgow landmark and one of Scotland's great buildings following a rebuild between 1901 and 1905 supervised by Caledonian Railway chief engineer Donald Matheson. The Edwardian ticket offices and information building still survive, as does the Central Hotel, while the glass-walled bridge which carries the station building over Argyle Street ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • 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

    $10.59 USD