The World's Most Spectacular Railway Journeys by Brian Solomon
$49.99 NZD
Category: Railway & Trains
Each journey is accompanied by a route map and is described in terms of the technical challenges of the construction of the track as well as the stunning views to be seen while travelling on the trains. Some of the railway journeys featured include the Harz narrow-gauge railway in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany ...Show more
Stop the Train! I want to get on: Rediscovering New Zealand Railway Journeys by Graham Hutchins
$49.99 NZD
Category: Railway & Trains
Graham Hutchins fell in love with trains at an early age. Living in the railway town of Te Kuiti, he often gazed on the steaming monsters as they thundered through the King Country. Before long train travel became more than a pastime, more than a fascination: he was hooked. In his new book he recounts a ...Show more
India's Disappearing Railways by Angus McDonald
$65.00 NZD
Category: Railway & Trains
INDIA'S DISAPPEARING RAILWAYS is a vibrant photo-essay by Australian photographer Angus McDonald, capturing for the first time in print the sub-continent's unique narrow-gauge hill railways in all their vivid colour, character and chaos. It is an intimate and humorous portrait of life on the trains, evo ...Show more
London's Railway Stations by Oliver Green
$22.99 NZD
Category: Railway & Trains | Series: Shire Library
An illustrated historical tour of London's 13 great railway termini, on a clockwise circuit from Paddington to Victoria.London's railway termini are among the most recognisable and familiar landmarks in the city. Famed for their bustling platforms and architectural innovation, they comprise a fascinatin ...Show more
The Wonderful Story of Baldwin Steam Tram No100 by Christopher Cameron
$35.00 NZD
Category: Railway & Trains
In this new book published by the Museum of Transport and Technology Society, you will learn of the incredible saga and near failures that the Baldwin Steam Tram No100 endured on its travels from Philadelphia, USA to New Zealand via Australia. This certainly is a Wonderful Story of the tram's trial, tri ...Show more
The Art of the Locomotive by Ken Boyd
$85.00 NZD
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
The Hornby Book of Scenic Railway Modelling by Chris Ellis
$40.99 NZD
Category: Crafts & Hobbies
Any model railway layout can be enhanced with the effective use of scenery and accessories. Chris Ellis examines the range of ready-made scenic accessories available to modellers, and also explains how to make your own scenic structures. Tips and techniques for adapting and weathering such accessories a ...Show more
Engines of War: How Wars Were Won and Lost on the Railways by Christian Wolmar
$29.99 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
The Great Railway Revolution: The Epic Story of the American Railroad by Christian Wolmar
$59.99 NZD
Category: Railway & Trains
In the 1830s, The United States underwent a second revolution. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line, the first American railroad, set in motion a process which, by the end of the century, would enmesh the vast country in a latticework of railroad lines, small-town stations and magisterial termin ...Show more
Steam Railways by Ammonite Press
$24.99 NZD
Category: Railway & Trains | Series: Britain in Pictures
Even today, over 50 years after the last scheduled service was hauled by a steam locomotive in Britain, many people's abiding image of rail travel comes from that age of steam, a romantic view of big muscular locomotives, belching clouds of steam and smoke, hauling long, snaking trains through picturesq ...Show more
Top Steam Railways of the World by Anthony Lambert
$34.99 NZD
Category: Railway & Trains
Less than 50 years ago, trains were routinely hauled by majestic steam-powered locomotives. These magnificent machines still exercise a powerful hold on our imagination, conjuring up the romance of old-fashioned rail travel and the excitement of human ingenuity pitted against the challenges of narrow pa ...Show more