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The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
by Paul Theroux  Publisher Comments First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's...
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The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
by Paul Theroux Synopsis Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Theroux takes readers on a train journey from New England to Patagonia in southernmost Argentina....
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Memories of Steam: The Final Years
by Roger Siviter Publisher Comments Roger Siviter has gathered together a collection of top-quality photographs that illustrate the last three years of steam traction on Britain's railways. Drawing on his own vast archive, as well as those of other equally talented railway photographers...
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Locomotion: Two Centuries of Train Travel
by P J G Ransom Publisher Comments This anthology celebrates 200 years of railway history and railway writing. The author has made a fascinating, wide-ranging selection from factual and fictional accounts to illustrate the attractions of train travel and the human side of running a...
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Tales of the Old Railwaymen
by Tom Quinn Synopsis Steam trains hold a nostalgic appeal for a great many people. This collection of tales recounts the experiences of those who worked on the railway. Memories of engine drivers and firemen are included as well as the crucial men behind the scenes....
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Riddles Class 9f 2-10-0s
by David Clarke Synopsis The single largest class of new locomotive to be constructed after the Nationalization of Britain's railroads in 1948, the 251 representatives of the Riddles-designed Class 9F 2-10-0 were amongst the most powerful steam locomotives ever constructed in...
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Illustrated Directory of Trains of the World
by Brian Hollingsworth Publisher Comments Whether you're a steam buff or your interest lies in the modern railways of today, you'll treasure this incredibly compact volume filled with over 150 interestingly written chronological entries, from the 1830s to the present day. This highly illustrated...
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The Hejaz Railway
by James Nicolson Publisher Comments Winding its way from Damascus through the vast desert wastes of Jordan and into the spectacular barren mountains of northwest Saudi Arabia, the Hejaz Railway was a testament to the fading but still potent power of the Ottomans in Arabia. Nicholson brings...
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British Rail Northern Scene: A 1970s Railway Album
by Andy Sparks Publisher Comments In the 1970s, Andy Sparks was an avid train-spotter and keen photographer. As he travelled around England, primarily the north west, he realised that vestiges of the steam age remained all over the network, even though it was now well and truly over. His...
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Great Railway Journeys of the East
by Max Wade Matthews Publisher Comments From Casablanca to Wellington - Evocative Accounts of the Great Rail Journeys of the East. Comprehensively illustrated, this wonderfully evocative book encounters 49 of the world's most legendary train journeys in the Eastern hemisphere. A book to...
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Locomotive Headboards: The Complete Story
by Dave Peel Publisher Comments A locomotive headboard is a board placed on the front of an engine that shows the name of the train. First used in 1912 by the North British Railway, the last in regular use appeared in 1984 - although Virgin Trains initiated a short-lived revival in...
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Last Journey of William Huskisson
by Simon Garfield Synopsis The Liverpool and Manchester Railway was the greatest engineering feat of its age. George and Robert Stephenson's "Rocket" was to become the most famous locomotive in history. William Huskisson was one of the greatest statesmen of his generation. On 15th...
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Maunsell 4-6-0 Lord Nelson Class
by Peter Swift Publisher Comments Faced by the need to construct a new class of express passenger locomotive for the Southern Railway's top-link services from London to Dover and to the southwest, the railway's then CME, Richard Maunsell, developed the 4-6-0 'LN' class. When the first of...
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Last Journey of William Huskisson
by Simon Garfield Synopsis The Liverpool and Manchester Railway was the greatest engineering feat of its age. George and Robert Stephenson's "Rocket" was to become the most famous locomotive in history. William Huskisson was one of the greatest statesmen of his generation. On 15th...
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Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations
by Andrew Dow Synopsis Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations is an authoritative compendium of quotations about railways from 1608 to the present day. More than 3,400 entries are drawn from over 1,300 writers and speakers and a wide range of original sources both British and...
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Vanishing Steam: A Photographer's Odyssey Around the World
by Eric Langhammer Publisher Comments Eric Langhammer has been riding the rails around the world for a quarter-century in search of the last steam engines. Now on the brink of extinction, these magnificent mechanical beasts can still be found at China's Jingpeng Pass and throughout the faded...
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Lner Six-Coupled Tank Locomotives 1948-68
by Eric Sawford Publisher Comments The year 1923 was a year of great change on the railways. Formation of the 'Big Four' resulted in the LNER taking over the Great Northern, Great Eastern, Great Central, North Eastern, North British and Great North of Scotland railway companies. Railway...
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Flying Scotsman: The Extraordinary Story of the World's Most Famous Train
by Andrew Roden Publisher Comments When Golden Age of Steam is mentioned, one train leaps to mind above all others—the Flying Scotsman, Nigel Gresley's elegant masterpiece of a locomotive, which broke the world speed record in 1934 and has enthralled millions with her beauty and...
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Yesterday's train :a rail odyssey through Mexican history
by Terry Pindell Book News Annotation Pindell and collaborated Ramirez Mallis travel throughout Mexico by train, weaving travel narrative with history and chronicling Mexico's turbulent past up to the present including the effects of the NAFTA agreement on various Mexican communities and...
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Platform Souls: The Trainspotter As 20th-Century Hero
by Nicholas Whittaker Synopsis An insider's perspective on the world of the trainspotter. A variety of topics, such as station and locomotive design, lesser-known titles in the Ian Allan catalogue, dieselization, Beeching's legacy and the ramifications of privatization, are covered....
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