Category: Railway & Trains
Rails to Cromwell through story and pictures , portrays a unique Otago Central Railway in a challenging environment.
Category: Railway & Trains
This thrilling book uses photographs and text to convey the rush and exhilaration of upscale voyages by rail. With the anticipation before you board and the slow departure from the station, the excitement never ends as you hurtle across various landscapes. Cocooned in a bubble of comfort and convenience ...Show more
Category: Railway & Trains
Some 10,000 kilometres (6,200 miles) of track and seven time zones! Luxury trains and simple wagons, endless taiga and the clearest lake in the world: a trip with Trans-Siberian Railway promises many highlights. Anne and Olaf Meinhardt spent six months travelling through the gorgeous landscape of Siberi ...Show more
Category: Railway & Trains
Railways are much more than just a mode of transport and their impact on the past 200 years of history has been profound. Railways have brought freedom of movement to the masses and been the agents of social change. They have fostered industrial and economic growth, they have been used to mobilise armie ...Show more
Category: Railway & Trains
No railway journey on Earth can equal the Trans-Siberian between Moscow and Vladivostok. It is not just its vast length and the great variety of the lands and climes through which it passes. It is not just its history as the line that linked the huge territories which are Russia together. It is a dream ...Show more
Category: Railway & Trains
For all of the steam and diesel locomotives you can't see in person, or the ones you want to remember in all of their larger-than-life glory, this is the book to buy. From the steam age to the modern diesel era, locomotives are marvels of engineering and industrial design, brimming with power, movement, ...Show more
Category: Railway & Trains
David St John Thomas is Britain's one-time bestselling railway author, who built a formidable publishing empire first based mainly on railways. In Farewell to Trains, he summarizes his lifetime's passion. Personal reminiscences and evocative descriptions of railway life are interspersed with extracts fr ...Show more
Category: Railway & Trains
This is a nostalgic guide to fifty of the most famous locomotives of the steam train and early diesel age, including the people, power and popularity that made them famous. It is packed with thrilling photographs of the locomotives at full steam, as well as colour photos taken after their restoration - ...Show more
Category: New Zealand Historical
Keith G. Brown documents Addington Workshops rich history from formation to closure and details his own experiences working as a tradesman carpenter at Addington from 1949 to 1987. The first book to document Addington's leading role in the manufacture and repair of rolling stock for New Zealand Railways ...Show more
Category: Railway & Trains
In May 1977 the French national railways announced they were taking the Orient- Express, the world's most fabled train, out of service. The public outcry which followed caught the attention of Jim Sherwood. The last remaining four carriages, which had featured in the film Murd er on the Ori ent-Expr ess ...Show more
Category: Military History
Engines of War tells the dramatic story of how the railways revolutionized the nature of warfare, ushering in an age of industrialized conflict in which wars were fought on a previously unimaginable scale. From the moment of its first appearance, the 'iron road' not only rendered armies more mobile, but ...Show more
Category: Railway & Trains
Since the Victorian era, London's Underground has had played a vital role in the daily life of generations of Londoners. In The Subterranean Railway, Christian Wolmar celebrates the vision and determination of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made the world's first, and still the largest, underground ...Show more
