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  • Ipswich to Felixstowe Branch Through Time

    by Andy T. Wallis ...
    Series series Through Time
    The railway at Ipswich dates from 1846 and that at Felixstowe from May 1877. Due to the busy port of Felixstowe the line is still doing extensive business in both passenger and freight traffic today. Like all branch lines the local stations have all lost their goods facilities, but recent investment in the branch has seen new signalling and a loop extension at Derby Road enabling two full-size ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Cambridge Main Line Through Time

    Part 1: Cheshunt to Audley End

    by Andy T. Wallis ...
    Series Book 1 - Through Time
    The railway at Broxbourne dates from 1840, and that at Bishop's Stortford from 1843; the rest of the line was running by 1845. A busy freight route up until the 1980s, it has seen large growth in the passenger business since electrification and the opening of the Stansted Airport branch. Recent investment by Railtrack and later Network Rail has seen resignalling south of Bishop's Stortford as well ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Branch Lines of East Anglia: Harwich Branch

    by Andy T. Wallis ...
    The Manningtree to Harwich railway branch linked the Great Eastern Main line to the ports of Harwich and, later, Harwich Parkeston Quay. From the early days of the railways the management encouraged boat train services to the continent. These peaked in the 1980s. This book is a journey along the line, visiting all the open and closed stations passed on the route of the line. Contained within are ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Stour Valley Railway Through Time

    Marks Tey to Bury St Edmunds & Cavendish

    by Andy T. Wallis ...
    Series series Through Time
    The Stour Valley line dates from 1849 and has had a long and turbulent history. Extended in 1865, the line reached the zenith of its fortunes under Great Eastern Railway. Thereafter, changes of ownership and cost-cutting programmes saw many services withdrawn and sections of the line closed. This, the first of two books exploring the history of the Stour Valley Railway, covers the line from Marks ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Colne Valley & Halstead Railway Through Time

    by Andy T. Wallis ...
    Series series Through Time
    This book takes an in-depth look at the small independent railway that was financed and built by the good citizens of Halstead and its surrounding villages in Essex. The CV&HR came into being in 1860 but struggled financially for a number of years before being put into receivership. However, in the late nineteenth century it made steady progress and reached its financial and traffic peak in the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Branch Lines of East Anglia: Wymondham to Wells-next-the-Sea Branch

    by Andy T. Wallis ...
    Series series The Branch Lines of ...
    By the end of the nineteenth century the railway had reached most parts of East Anglia, with two main lines reaching out from London to Norwich, Cambridge and Kings Lynn, and plenty of small secondary and branch lines filling in the gaps in between. In this informative volume, Andy T. Wallis uses his fascinating collection of photographs and maps to explore the history of the Wymondham–Wells-next ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • Stour Valley Railway Part 2 Through Time

    Clare to Shelford & Audley End

    by Andy T. Wallis ...
    Series Book 2 - Through Time
    This part of the Stour Valley line dates from 1865 and survived for 102 years; the Saffron Walden branch followed a few months later. From the 1920s, both lines fought a rearguard action against road competition. Busy again during the Second World War and for a short period afterwards, both lines benefitted from new diesel motive power by 1959. By then, the writing was on the wall for both lines, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Preserved Steam Britain's Heritage Railways Volume Two

    by Geoff Swaine ...
    Geoff Swaine’s superb photography captures the very best of Britain’s preserved steam in action at locations throughout the country. Following on from Britain’s Heritage Railways: Preserved Steam Volume 1, Geoff Swaine presents a new collection of images covering some of Britain’s most celebrated heritage lines: The Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, the Bluebell Railway, the North York Moors ... Read more

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  • The Cromford & High Peak Railway in Colour

    by John Evans ...
    Many audacious and improbable schemes for new railways were dreamed up in the nineteenth century, but surely none matched the plan to link the Cromford Canal with the Peak Forest Canal at Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire using a series of rope-worked inclines. This railway oddity opened in 1831 and somehow survived almost unnoticed until 1967, when there was a flurry of publicity when it closed. The ... Read more

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  • The Last Train to Zona Verde

    My Ultimate African Safari

    by Paul Theroux ...
    The acclaimed author of Dark Star Safari journeys across western Africa in this "thoroughly engrossing [and] at times tragic" travelogue ( Washington Post).Paul Theroux's best-selling Dark Star Safari chronicled his epic overland voyage from Cairo to Cape Town, providing an insider's look at modern Africa. Now, with The Last Train to Zona Verde, he returns to discover how both he and Africa have ... Read more

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  • Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

    28,000 Miles in Search of the Railway Bazaar

    by Paul Theroux ...
    The acclaimed author of The Great Railway Bazaar retraces his legendary journey through Europe and Asia in this "funny, informative and lyrical" travelogue ( The Guardian, UK).Paul Theroux virtually invented the modern travel narrative by recounting his 25,000-mile journey by train through eastern Europe, central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia. Three decades later, the ... Read more

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