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  • Trains, Culture, and Mobility

    Riding the Rails

    by Hiraku Shimoda, Peter Soppelsa, Alexander Medcalf, Rowan Wilken, Samuel Gerald Collins, Hiroki Shin, Tristan R. Grunow, Araceli Masterson-Algar, Agata Morka, Colin Divall ...
    Trains, Culture and Mobility: Riding the Rails goes beyond textual representations of rail travel to engage an impressive range of political, sociological and urban theory. Taken together, these essays highlight the complexity of the modern experience of train mobility, and its salient relation to a number of cultural discourses. Incorporating traditionally marginal areas of cultural production ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

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    by Greg Morse ...
    Series Book 699 - Shire Library
    As Britain moved from austerity to prosperity in the 1950s and 1960s, it became clear that British Railways needed to modernise its equipment and rationalise its network if it was to hold its own in the face of growing competition from road and air transport.After attempting to maintain pre-war networks and technology in the 1950s, a reversal of policy in the 1960s brought line closures, new ... Read more

    $9.39 USD

  • Firing the Flying Scotsman and Other Great Locomotives

    Life on the Footplate in the Last Years of Steam

    by Ken Issitt ...
    Remembering the romance of a bygone era, with all the dirt, grime and risks the job entailed! Fast train fireman Ken Issitt worked on the footplate from the late 1940s to 1960, experiencing firing some of the greatest locomotives from the Flying Scotsman to Coltimore and Blink Bonney. The work was hard and conditions were tough but little did Ken know at the time that he was experiencing the last ... Read more

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  • The Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

    An Illustrated History of Railway Stations in Canada

    by Ron Brown ...
    Brown celebrates the survival of our railway heritage in stations that have been saved or remain in use.Despite the "green" benefits of rail travel, Canada has lost much of its railway heritage. Across the country stations have been bulldozed and rails ripped up. Once the heart of communities large and small, stations and tracks have left little more than a gaping hole in Canada’s landscapes. This ... Read more

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  • Along Different Lines

    70 Real Life Railway Stories

    by Geoff Body, Bill Parker ...
    Running a railway is a complex business. However organised it is, there will always be surprises: often hilarious, frequently unexpected, but sometimes serious.Along Different Lines includes such bizarre 'everyday' events as coping with hurricanes, rogue locomotives and runaway wagons; PR successes and otherwise; the Brighton Belle, Flying Scotsman and Mallard; training-course capers; a wino ... Read more

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  • The Lunatic Express

    by Charles Miller ...
    In 1895, George Whitehouse arrived at the east African post of Mombasa to perform an engineering miracle: the building of the Mombasa-Nairobi-Lake Victoria Railway – a 600-mile route that was largely unmapped and barely explored. Behind Mombasa lay a scorched, waterless desert. Beyond, a horizonless scrub country climbed toward a jagged volcanic region bisected by the Great Rift Valley. A hundred ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • In Search of the Grand Trunk

    Ghost Rail Lines in Ontario

    by Ron Brown ...
    Explore Ontario's forgotten rail lines and experience the legacy and lore of this the vital railway era of Ontario's history. At its peak between 1880 and the 1920s, Ontario was criss-crossed by more than 20,000 kilometres of rail trackage. Today , only a fraction remains. Yet trains once hauled everything from strawberries to grain, cans of milk and even eels. Villagers depended on trains to ... Read more

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  • The Steam Locomotive

    An Engineering History

    by Ken Gibbs ...
    Books on railway history invariably start with the Stephenson's or with Richard Trevithick's locomotive of 1804., but the story begins much earlier with the development of steam engines for pumping out deep mines. Ken Gibbs, a retired engineer who served his apprenticeship in the Swindon Works of British Railways, takes a more practical approach to railway history, using its engineering ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Beeching: 50 Years On

    50 Years On

    by Anthony Poulton-Smith ...
    In 1963 Dr Beeching's infamous report signalled the end for over 15,000 miles of track, a third of Britain's stations, and for 70,000 jobs, as well as making irrevocable changes to the way of life of many consumers. Much misery was caused and Beeching's name was muddied, but in hindsight the report probably did more than any other single factor to preserve the nation's railway heritage. Without ... Read more

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  • LMS/BR Class 7 4-6-0 Rebuilds

    The Rebuilt Jubilee, Patriot and Royal Scot Locomotives

    by David Clarke ...
    A comprehensive look at the LMS/BR Class 7 4-6-0 rebuilt locomotives, including the rebuilt Jubilees, the rebuilt Patriots and the rebuilt Royal Scots. The book includes hundreds of photographs and feedback from the original crews that operated the engines. Contents include:Origins of the rebuilt Class 7s in the 1940s and the design of the 2A boiler; Differences between the classes; Liveries, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Complete Book of North American Railroading

    by Kevin EuDaly, Mike Schafer, Steve Jessup, Jim Boyd, Steve Glischinski, Andrew McBride ...
    The year 1827 marked the completion of the United States’ first railroad--and the beginning of a transformation of American life. This book, spanning nearly two centuries, offers an exhilarating tour of the railways’ inroads into the economy, society, and culture of North America.Illustrated with more than 400 historical and modern photographs and period advertisements, The Complete Book of North ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The World the Railways Made

    by Nicholas Faith ...
    Across American praries, through Siberian tundra, over Argentinian pampas and deep into the heart of Africa, the modern world began with the arrival of the railway. The shock was sudden and universal: railways carried empire, capitalism and industrialization to every corner of the planet. For some, the 'Iron Road' symbolized the brute horrors of modernity; for others the way toward a brighter ... Read more

    $8.99 USD