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Through Time eBook Series

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  • The Somerset & Dorset Railway Through Time

    by Steph Gillett ...
    Series series Through Time
    The Somerset & Dorset Railway, known as the S&D (said to also stand for ‘Slow and Dirty’ or ‘Serene and Delightful’), ran from Bath across the Mendip hills to Bournemouth on the south coast. Never a high-speed line, the main traffic for the Somerset & Dorset during the winter months was freight and local passenger traffic. In the summer, however, there was heavy traffic as Saturday holiday ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • The Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway Through Time

    by Steph Gillett ...
    Series series Through Time
    Almost the entire network of the former Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway system closed at the end of February 1959. Some short sections of the railway were retained for passenger services until the mid-1960s and freight continued to run on a few others, one surviving into the 1980s. Only the passenger service between Cromer and Sheringham on the north Norfolk coast survives as part of the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Midland & South Western Junction Railway Through Time

    by Steph Gillett ...
    Series series Through Time
    The Midland & South Western Junction Railway was formed in 1884 by amalgamation of the Swindon, Marlborough & Andover and the Swindon & Cheltenham Extension railways. It provided a north–south link between the Midland and the London & South Western railways through the heartland of the Great Western Railway. It also served several military establishments in Wiltshire. It joined the Banbury & ... 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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  • Bradshaw’s Handbook

    by George Bradshaw ...
    A facsimile edition of Bradshaw's Handbook of 1863, the book that inspired the BBC television series 'Great British Railway Journeys'.When Michael Portillo began the series 'Great British Railway Journeys', a well-thumbed 150-year-old book shot back to fame. The original Bradshaw's guides had been well known to Victorian travellers and were produced when the British railway network was at its peak ... Read more

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  • To the Edge of the World

    The Story of the Trans-Siberian Express, the World's Greatest Railroad

    by Christian Wolmar ...
    To the Edge of the World is an adventure in travel -- full of extraordinary personalities, more than a century of explosive political, economic, and cultural events, and almost inconceivable feats of engineering. Christian Wolmar passionately recounts the improbable origins of the Trans-Siberian railroad, the vital artery for Russian expansion that spans almost 6,000 miles and seven time zones ... Read more

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  • Blood on the Tracks

    A History of Railway Crime in Britain

    by David Brandon, Alan Brooke ...
    Between 1835 and the 1850s, railway mania blossomed around Britain. Crime emerged as the railways developed, at first opportunistic crimes such as fare evasion and robberies, but gradually more inventive forms evolved, notably the minor clerk Redpath in the 1850s, whose shameless cooking of the books to live the high life exposed the lack of any kind of accountancy across the railway industry. The ... Read more

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  • The Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay

    Reinvestigating the Tay Bridge Disaster of 1879

    by Peter R. Lewis ...
    Over 125 years ago, barely a year and a half after the Tay Railway Bridge was built, William McGonnagal composed his poem about the Tay Bridge Disaster, the poem about Britain's worst-ever civil engineering disaster. Over 80 people lost their lives in the fall of the Tay Bridge, but how did it happen? The accident reports say that high wind and poor construction were to blame, but Peter Lewis, an ... Read more

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  • Railways and The Raj

    How the Age of Steam Transformed India

    by Christian Wolmar ...
    India was the jewel in the crown of the British Empire. There were vast riches to be exploited and vast numbers of people to be subjugated. How better to achieve these aims than by building a rail network that facilitated the export of raw material and made it easier for troops to travel around the country to tackle uprisings? India joined the railway age late: the first line was not completed ... Read more

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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

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  • The Railway King

    by Robert Beaumont ...
    George Hudson - the eponymous Railway King - started his career with a stroke of luck, inheriting £27,000 (a fortune in 1827) from a distant relative. He invested successfully in the North Midland Railway, then formed his own Midland Railway, raising £5 million and bribing MPs along the way. But from his glory in 1845 he fell into disgrace, admitting corruption and selling land he did not own. He ... Read more

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  • Sixties Spotting Days 1968 The Last Year of Steam

    by Kevin Derrick ...
    Series series Sixties Spotting Days
    1968: The Last Year of Steam is a photographic album in full colour, depicting this important year with month-by-month coverage of over thirty-five different kinds of locomotives as British Railways phased the last steam locomotives out of use. These nostalgic photographs are supplemented in the captions with items of news, culture, music and the personalities from the era, which are sure to bring ... Read more

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