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G.W.R. Engines - Names, Numbers, Types and Classes (Paperback): W G Chapman G.W.R. Engines - Names, Numbers, Types and Classes (Paperback)
W G Chapman
R516 R478 Discovery Miles 4 780 Save R38 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A collection of the Great Western Railway: Names, Numbers, Types and Classes book editions spanning the middle of the 20th century from the detailed work of W. G. Chapman.

A Century of Locomotive Building - By Robert Stephenson & Co 1823/1923 (Paperback): J. G. H. Warren A Century of Locomotive Building - By Robert Stephenson & Co 1823/1923 (Paperback)
J. G. H. Warren
R938 R822 Discovery Miles 8 220 Save R116 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This concise look at the locomotive company Robert Stephenson & Co from 1823 to 1923 by J. G. Warren provides a unique history of the locomotive industry as it came to be built. He includes details such as letters, diagrams, photos, pictures and tables to give a full understanding of that century of progression.

London, Midland and Scottish Railway Pacifics (Paperback): J.W.P Rowledge London, Midland and Scottish Railway Pacifics (Paperback)
J.W.P Rowledge
R394 R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Save R29 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

J. W. P. Rowledge looks at the development and intricacies of the L.M.S Pacifics using detailed tables, diagrams and photographs.

London and North Eastern Railway 4-6-0's (Paperback): R.P. Bradley London and North Eastern Railway 4-6-0's (Paperback)
R.P. Bradley
R329 R308 Discovery Miles 3 080 Save R21 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

R. P. Bradley's look at the design and performance of London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) 4-6-0s locomotives containing useful tables, diagrams and photographs.

Fifteen Inch Gauge Railways - Their History, Equipment and Operation (Paperback): David Mosley, Peter Zeller Fifteen Inch Gauge Railways - Their History, Equipment and Operation (Paperback)
David Mosley, Peter Zeller
R330 R309 Discovery Miles 3 090 Save R21 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

David Mosley and Peter van Zeller explain the history and development of fifteen inch gauge railways as well as looking at the set up of miniature railways with the use of photographs and diagrams.

How to Become a Railway Signaller: The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Signaller (Paperback): Richard McMunn How to Become a Railway Signaller: The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Signaller (Paperback)
Richard McMunn
R384 R348 Discovery Miles 3 480 Save R36 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
The Civilizing Machine - A Cultural History of Mexican Railroads, 1876-1910 (Paperback): Michael Matthews The Civilizing Machine - A Cultural History of Mexican Railroads, 1876-1910 (Paperback)
Michael Matthews
R910 Discovery Miles 9 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In late nineteenth-century Mexico the Mexican populace was fascinated with the country's booming railroad network. Newspapers and periodicals were filled with art, poetry, literature, and social commentaries exploring the symbolic power of the railroad. As a symbol of economic, political, and industrial modernization, the locomotive served to demarcate a nation's status in the world. However, the dangers of locomotive travel, complicated by the fact that Mexico's railroads were foreign owned and operated, meant that the railroad could also symbolize disorder, death, and foreign domination.

In "The Civilizing Machine" Michael Matthews explores the ideological and cultural milieu that shaped the Mexican people's understanding of technology. Intrinsically tied to the Porfiriato, the thirty-five-year dictatorship of Gen. Porfirio Diaz, the booming railroad network represented material progress in a country seeking its place in the modern world. Matthews discloses how the railroad's development represented the crowning achievement of the regime and the material incarnation of its mantra, "order and progress." The Porfirian administration evoked the railroad in legitimizing and justifying its own reign, while political opponents employed the same rhetorical themes embodied by the railroads to challenge the manner in which that regime achieved economic development and modernization. As Matthews illustrates, the multiple symbols of the locomotive reflected deepening social divisions and foreshadowed the conflicts that eventually brought about the Mexican Revolution.

Railway Signal Engineering in the Mechanical Era (Paperback): L.P. Lewis Railway Signal Engineering in the Mechanical Era (Paperback)
L.P. Lewis; Edited by Gordon Roberts
R1,125 Discovery Miles 11 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

THIS standard treatise on mechanical railway signalling by Leonard Lewis was written at the turn of the twentieth century. Originally published in 1910 as Railway Signal Engineering (Mechanical), a second edition followed in 1912. A third edition, revised and enlarged by J. H. Fraser, appeared in 1932. Since its original publication, now more than 100 years ago, much if not all of the mechanisms and practices described and illustrated have disappeared from the modern high-speed railways of Britain and the rest of the world. In his preface to the first edition, Lewis wrote that he intended the book to be '... suitable for men who are engaged in railway work, but not necessarily in connection with the Signalling Engineer's Department.' Today, such men no longer have any professional interest in what to them is now archaic and superseded. However, with the popular growth of preserved heritage railways, and the dedicated reconstruction and re-creation of many railway artefacts by enthusiasts, it is no longer possible to state categorically that any particular mechanism or operating procedure described in the book is extinct. Although they may have disappeared from modern railways in the electronic and computer controlled age, original or replica items or otherwise obsolete methods of working may well be in regular use on preserved branch line railways or be on display in railway museums. Herein lies the main inspiration for this new edition at the start of the twenty first century. Lewis's book, once describing the very cutting edge of railway technology, has become with the passage of time a valuable work of history. Nevertheless, its contents may still be very relevant and of inestimable value to those responsible for the maintenance and operation of precious and irreplaceable signalling equipment on preserved steam and diesel railways, wheresoever those lines might be. Again, the ever growing band of collectors and restorers of old signalling equipment will find the technical material in these pages of more than passing interest. Likewise, enthusiasts viewing the artefacts on display in railway museums might find that this volume can usefully supplement the information provided in simplified guide books and explanatory leaflets. Railway Signal Engineering (Mechanical) is long out of print. The present derivative work is based on the 1932 edition and non of Lewis's original text, nor that later added by Fraser, has been omitted from this reprint. It is in every word as the original, except for a few minor corrections and one important detail. That is, the captions to some of the drawings have been amended to more accurately reflect the intent of the illustration, than did Lewis's original captions. Also note that no illustrations have been omitted, although a few have been added. However, as the most cursory glance through the book pages will show, all the illustrations have been redrawn, in many cases substituting more realistic depictions of signals and mechanisms for the sometimes rather crude sketches in the original. Most notably, colour has been used, not only to provide a more visually appealing book for the enthusiast and the historian, but also in the hope that it adds somewhat to the understanding of technical descriptions and of the illustrations themselves.

John Frank Stevens - Civil Engineer (Hardcover): Clifford Foust John Frank Stevens - Civil Engineer (Hardcover)
Clifford Foust
R972 Discovery Miles 9 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

One of America's foremost civil engineers of the past 150 years, John Frank Stevens was a railway reconnaissance and location engineer whose reputation was made on the Canadian Pacific and Great Northern lines. Self-taught and driven by a bulldog tenacity of purpose, he was hired by Theodore Roosevelt as chief engineer of the Panama Canal, creating a technical achievement far ahead of its time. Stevens also served for more than five years as the head of the US Advisory Commission of Railway Experts to Russia and as a consultant who contributed to many engineering feats, including the control of the Mississippi River after the disastrous floods of 1927 and construction of the Boulder (Hoover) Dam. Drawing on Stevens s surviving personal papers and materials from projects with which he was associated, Clifford Foust offers an illuminating look into the life of an accomplished civil engineer."

Greenly's Model Steam Locomotive Designs and Specifications (Paperback, 2nd edition): Henry L. Greenly Greenly's Model Steam Locomotive Designs and Specifications (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Henry L. Greenly; Edited by Ernest A. Steel
R317 Discovery Miles 3 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Common Rail Fuel Injection Technology in Diesel Engines (Hardcover): G Ouyang Common Rail Fuel Injection Technology in Diesel Engines (Hardcover)
G Ouyang
R3,524 Discovery Miles 35 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An all-inclusive guide to the design and optimization of high pressure common rail systems for diesel engines based on extensive research and latest developments Systematically covers all the fundamental high pressure common rail technologies for diesel engines Includes up-to-date developments and optimization approaches for current common rail systems Details the design of next-generation twin CRS and marine applications Illustrates concepts through simulations, extensive research and experimental studies

The Birth of California Narrow Gauge - A Regional Study of the Technology of Thomas and Martin Carter (Hardcover, Anniversary):... The Birth of California Narrow Gauge - A Regional Study of the Technology of Thomas and Martin Carter (Hardcover, Anniversary)
Bruce MacGregor
R1,697 Discovery Miles 16 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This long-awaited study, the magnum opus of a leading railroad historian, describes the conception, construction, and early operation of the first narrow gauge railroads in northern California. It is lavishly illustrated by some 600 photographs and drawings, almost three-quarters of which have never before been published. The topic is approached through an unusual lens: the history of the relatively small but extraordinarily inventive contracting and engineering firm of the brothers Thomas and Martin Carter. The Carters were able to reduce the cost and complexity of light railroad construction to the point where local narrow gauge lines could initially compete with the state's notorious railroad monopolies. Pioneering a mobile manufacturing operation that could supply locally funded short lines with rolling stock (which traditionally came from East Coast manufacturers), the Carter Brothers began with a line to serve Salinas Valley wheat farmers, desperate to achieve an independent means for conveying their crops to the wharf in Monterey. The narrow gauge railroad that resulted was an act of political and economic defiance, but ultimately a hopeless assault on the "Octopus"-the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads. Rallying around the example set in Monterey, a narrow gauge movement in California flourished in the mid-1870s, with the rapid launching of five more companies-the North Pacific Coast, the Santa Cruz Railroad, the Santa Cruz & Felton, the Nevada County Narrow Gauge, and the South Pacific Coast-all of which drew on the Carter Brothers for manufacturing and engineering. Soon, Thomas and Martin Carter were not only selling railroad supplies and engineering to all six short lines, but had won management positions with the strongest, the South Pacific Coast. Until personal and financial disaster overtook them in 1880, the Carters were at the forefront of not just a new business, but a new technology.

History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Maury Klein History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Maury Klein
R1,082 Discovery Miles 10 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

" After the Civil War, the Louisville & Nashville Railroad took the lead among southern railroads in developing rail systems and organizing transcontinental travel. Through two world wars, federal government control, internal crises, external dissension, the Depression, and the great Ohio River flood of 1937, the L&N Railroad remained one of the country's most efficient lines. It is a southern institution and a railroad buff's dream. When eminent railroad historian Maury Klein's definitive History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad was first published in 1972, it quickly became one of the most sought after books on railroad history. This new edition both restores a hard-to-find classic to print and provides a new introduction by Klein detailing the L&N's history in the thirty years since the book was first published.

When the Steam Railroads Electrified, Revised Second Edition (Hardcover, Revised Second Edition): William D. Middleton When the Steam Railroads Electrified, Revised Second Edition (Hardcover, Revised Second Edition)
William D. Middleton
R1,607 Discovery Miles 16 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This comprehensive history of North American railroad electrification has been out of print for many years. Now, Indiana University Press is proud to announce its return in an new, updated second edition.

For most of the first half of the 20th century the United States led the way in railroad electrification. Before the outbreak of World War II, the country had some 2,400 route-miles and more than 6,300 track-miles operating under electric power, far more than any other nation and more than 20 percent of the world s total. In almost every instance, electrification was a huge success. Running times were reduced. Tonnage capacities were increased. Fuel and maintenance costs were lowered, and the service lives of electric locomotives promised to be twice as long as those of steam locomotives. Yet despite its many triumphs, electrification of U.S. railroads failed to achieve the wide application that once was so confidently predicted. By the 1970s, it was the Soviet Union, with almost 22,000 electrified route-miles, that led the way, and the U.S. had declined to 17th place.

Today, electric operation of U.S. railroads is back in the limelight. The federally funded Northeast Corridor Improvement Program has provided an expanded Northeast Corridor electrification, with high-speed trains that are giving the fastest rail passenger service ever seen in North America, while still other high-speed corridors are planned for other parts of the country. And with U.S. rail freight tonnage at its highest levels in history, the ability of electric locomotives to expand capacity promises to bring renewed consideration of freight railroad electrification.

Middleton begins his ambitious chronicle of the ups and downs of railway electrification with the history of its early days, and brings it right up to the present which is surely not the end of this complex and mercurial story."

La Locomotive a Vapeur (Hardcover): A. Chapelon La Locomotive a Vapeur (Hardcover)
A. Chapelon; Translated by G.W. Carpenter
R2,586 Discovery Miles 25 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tomorrow's World (Railtech '98) (Hardcover): Pep (Professional Engineering Publishers Tomorrow's World (Railtech '98) (Hardcover)
Pep (Professional Engineering Publishers
R2,336 Discovery Miles 23 360 Out of stock

The success and continued growth of business for the rail industry is vital to infrastructure development. Railtech is one of the major European events that brings together representatives form many of the industry's main innovating companies. By providing an ideal forum for engineers from all disciplines to meet and discuss today's projects and those of the future, it addresses the need for information and technology transfer. The need for railway technology to support and lead the industry in new areas of reliability, comfort, and customer satisfaction is greater than ever. A wide range of topics across the whole field of railway engineering and business development are tackled. One of even proceedings texts from this conference, this volume covers the future of the rail industry.

Injectors - Their Theory, Construction and Working (Paperback, New ed of 1893 ed): William Wade Fitzherbert Pullen Injectors - Their Theory, Construction and Working (Paperback, New ed of 1893 ed)
William Wade Fitzherbert Pullen
R558 Discovery Miles 5 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
We Took the Train (Hardcover, New): H. Roger Grant We Took the Train (Hardcover, New)
H. Roger Grant
R635 R566 Discovery Miles 5 660 Save R69 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this illustrated collection, H. Roger Grant, one of America's leading railroad historians, brings together a rich assortment of personal accounts of train travel in the United States since the dawn of railroading. The twenty-one accounts included here tell of the excitement, the romance, the difficulties, and sometimes the danger of traveling by train. Together they present a lively picture of the great changes that have taken place since the 1830s. Some describe wild rides on high-speed raceways, while others recount arduous trips on rickety branch lines. Rail travel at its most luxurious is recreated--the elegant Pullman sleeping berths, the fine parlor and observation cars--as are some of the more grim journeys of troops, itinerant workers, and prisoners of war in squalid boxcars. Binding these accounts together is an enduring fascination with the rails.

Tracks of Change - Railways and Everyday Life in Colonial India (Hardcover): Ritika Prasad Tracks of Change - Railways and Everyday Life in Colonial India (Hardcover)
Ritika Prasad
R2,070 Discovery Miles 20 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From the mid-nineteenth century onwards, railways became increasingly important in the lives of a growing number of Indians. While allowing millions to collectively experience the endemic discomforts of third-class travel, the public opportunities for proximity and contact created by railways simultaneously compelled colonial society to confront questions about exclusion, difference, and community. It was not only passengers, however, who were affected by the transformations that railways wrought. Even without boarding a train, one could see railway tracks and embankments reshaping familiar landscapes, realise that train schedules represented new temporal structures, fear that spreading railway links increased the reach of contagion, and participate in new forms of popular politics focused around railway spaces. Tracks of Change explores how railway technology, travel, and infrastructure became increasingly woven into everyday life in colonial India, how people negotiated with the growing presence of railways, and how this process has shaped India's history.

How Steam Locomotives Really Work (Paperback): P.W.B. Semmens, A.J. Goldfinch How Steam Locomotives Really Work (Paperback)
P.W.B. Semmens, A.J. Goldfinch
R414 R375 Discovery Miles 3 750 Save R39 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Steam locomotives were developed in the early part of the 19th Century, initially by Trevithick, and then most successfully by George Stephenson, whose engine Locomotion inaugurated the famous Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825. For the next 150 years, steam locomotives were further developed and refined, until the advent of new electrical technology superseded them. Although British Railways operated its last main-line steam locomotives in 1968, there is still immense interest in the large numbers of locomotives that have been privately preserved, and which run on heritage railways and in various parts of the world. This book describes the anatomy and physiology of the steam train, to enable all train enthusiasts to understand the workings of the various types of engines in use. It covers the design of the engine, the process of converting fuel into mechanical tractive effort to haul passenger and freight trains, and the function and design of the various components of the engine. The authors also outline the reasons behind the safe and efficient operation and maintenance of steam locomotives. Although the steam locomotive originated in the UK, there were parallel lines of development in North America and in various other European countries, many of which introduced their own individual features. These are dealt with in the book, which will appeal to railway enthusiasts throughout the world.

George and Robert Stephenson - The Railway Revolution (Paperback): L.T.C. Rolt George and Robert Stephenson - The Railway Revolution (Paperback)
L.T.C. Rolt
R387 R351 Discovery Miles 3 510 Save R36 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times. They carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed, transforming the pace and style of everyday life. We owe them to two men who, father and son, can lay claim to be the most important engineers of their time, George and Robert Stephenson. In this excellent biography L. T. C. Rolt, author of Brunel and Thomas Telford, assesses their life and their work. 'This biography is a work of distinction in both the historical and social sense. It is written by one who adds engineering knowledge to biographical skill.' E. W. Martin in the Listener 'Mr Rolt is a master of correct terminology and can even turn it to literary advantage where, under another hand, it would cumber context with jargon. This gift, coupled with his own practical knowledge of mechanical and civil engineering, has enabled the author to produce yet another contribution to English history, which would have been quite beyond the power of the academic historian.' Edmund Vale in the Observer

Evolution of the American Diesel Locomotive (Hardcover): J. Parker Lamb Evolution of the American Diesel Locomotive (Hardcover)
J. Parker Lamb
R993 Discovery Miles 9 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The diesel locomotive sent shock waves through rigid corporate cultures and staid government regulators. For some, the new technology promised to be a source of enormous profits; for others, the railroad industry seemed a threat to their very livelihoods. Evolution of the American Diesel Locomotive introduces the reader to the important technological advances that gave rise to diesel engines, examining not only their impact on locomotive design, but also their impact on the economic and social landscapes. J. Parker Lamb describes the development of these technologies, allowing the reader to fully understand how they were integrated and formed a commercially successful locomotive. Like its companion volume, Perfecting the American Steam Locomotive (IUP, 2003), this book emphasizes the role of the leading engineers whose innovations paved the way for critical breakthroughs. Rail fans will appreciate this authoritative work.

Eleventh International Conference on the Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfield - Three Volume Set (Hardcover): Inge... Eleventh International Conference on the Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfield - Three Volume Set (Hardcover)
Inge Hoff, Helge Mork, Rabbira Saba
R15,786 Discovery Miles 157 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This peer-reviewed 3-volume set comprises the contributions to the 11th International Conference on Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfields (2022). In 3 volumes it unveils state-of-the-art information and research on the latest policies, traffic loading measurements, in-situ measurements and condition surveys, functional testing, deflection measurement evaluation, structural performance prediction for pavements and tracks, new construction and rehabilitation design systems, frost affected areas, drainage and environmental effects, reinforcement, traditional and recycled materials, full scale testing and on case histories of road, railways and airfields. This edited work is intended for a global audience of road, railway and airfield engineers, researchers and consultants, as well as building and maintenance companies looking to further upgrade their practices in the field.

Smart Metro Station Systems - Data Science and Engineering (Paperback): Hui Liu, Chao Chen, Yanfei Li, Zhu Duan, Ye Li Smart Metro Station Systems - Data Science and Engineering (Paperback)
Hui Liu, Chao Chen, Yanfei Li, Zhu Duan, Ye Li
R3,675 Discovery Miles 36 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Smart Metro Station Systems: Data Science and Engineering introduces key technologies in data science and engineering for smart metro station systems. The book consists of three main parts, focusing on the environment, people and energy. Each chapter includes practical applications, along with information on metro traffic flow monitoring and passenger guidance, methods for behavior analysis and trajectory projection, clustering and anomaly detection in crowd hotspots, monitoring and prediction for station humidity, monitoring and spatial prediction for air pollutants, time series feature extraction and analysis of metro load, characteristic and correlation analysis of metro load, and prediction and intelligent ventilation control. This volume offers a key reference on the emerging area of smart metro stations and will be useful to those working on smart railways, data science, engineering, artificial intelligence and aligned fields.

Rrb - Group 'D' Recruitment Exam Previous Years' Papers & Practice Test Papers (Solved) (Hindi, Paperback): Rph,... Rrb - Group 'D' Recruitment Exam Previous Years' Papers & Practice Test Papers (Solved) (Hindi, Paperback)
Rph, Editorial Board
R588 Discovery Miles 5 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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