Engines of War: How Wars Were Won and Lost on the Railways by Christian Wolmar
$39.99 NZD
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
Railroad Stations: The Buildings That Linked the Nation by David Naylor
$90.00 NZD
Category: Railway & Trains
Almost overnight railway lines sprawled across the United States, quickly assuming a key role in America s rapid growth and development. Linking these lines that crisscrossed the map were the stations themselves, the very centerpieces physical and metaphorical of civic and cultural life in America. They ...Show more
High Speed Trains by Peter Clark
$49.95 NZD
Category: Railway & Trains
This is a comprehensive history of high speed trains beginning with Japanese bullet trains of 1960s and including the French development of TGVs. The book covers not just the trains but the problems and solutions for the lines on which they run. It looks at European adoption of high speed trains now an ...Show more
The Flying Scotsman : The World's Most Famous Train
$24.99 NZD
Category: Railway & Trains | Series: Old House
Hoping to attract attention and passengers, in 1923 the newly-established London and North Eastern Railway Company officially named its premier service: the 10am from London King's Cross to Edinburgh: the Flying Scotsman. The following year one of the newest class of express locomotives, named for the s ...Show more
Illustrated Book of Steam & RAil by Garratt
$21.99 NZD
$28.99 (24% off)
Category: Railway & Trains
Underground: How the Tube Shaped London, 1863 - 2013 by David Bownes
$60.00 NZD
Category: Railway & Trains
In 2013 London Underground, the world's first underground railway, marks its 150th anniversary. This new, lavishly illustrated history is the official anniversary publication of the London Underground, drawing on previously unseen sources and images to celebrate the crucial role of the tube in the creat ...Show more
Fifty Railways That Changed the Course of History by Bill Laws
$39.99 NZD
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
Farewell to Trains: A Lifetime's Journey Along Britain's Changing Railways by David St.John Thomas
$49.99 NZD
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
To the Edge of the World - The Story of the Trans-Siberian Railway by Christian Wolmar
$55.00 NZD
Category: Railway & Trains | Reading Level: near fine
It is the world's longest railway line. But it is so much more than that, too. The Trans-Siberian stretches nearly 6,000 miles between Moscow and Vladivostok on the Pacific Coast and was the most ambitious railway project in the nineteenth century. A journey on the railway evokes a romantic roam through ...Show more
Great Railway Maps of the World by Mark Ovenden
$30.00 NZD
Category: Railway & Trains
From Mark Ovenden, the author of London Underground by Design and Metro Maps of the World, comes Great Railway Maps of the World, a beautifully illustrated, comprehensive history of the greatest railway maps, and the story behind them. The history of the railway is the history of Britain - and France, ...Show more
World Railway Journeys : Discover 50 of the World's Greatest Railways by Julian Holland
$34.99 NZD
Category: Railway & Trains
Discover the fascinating histories and routes of 50 of the world's most scenic railways. Railway expert Julian Holland takes you on a journey around the world. Take a journey around the world by rail, from the American Rockies to the Australian outback, covering 50 routes from 35 countries. Detailed com ...Show more
Railways by Christian Wolmar
$32.99 NZD
Category: Railway & Trains | Series: The\Landmark Library
From Britain's most popular railway historian, a concise, authoritative and fast-paced telling of how the railways changed the world. The arrival of the railways in the first half of the nineteenth century and their subsequent spread across every one of the world's continents acted as a spur for economi ...Show more