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Books > Sport & Leisure > Transport: general interest > Trains & railways: general interest

Guide to Electro-Motive E and F Units (Paperback): Jeff Wilson Guide to Electro-Motive E and F Units (Paperback)
Jeff Wilson
R766 R645 Discovery Miles 6 450 Save R121 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
London Locospotter Reflects - Memories of Black and White Days (Paperback): Geoff Bannister London Locospotter Reflects - Memories of Black and White Days (Paperback)
Geoff Bannister
R525 R431 Discovery Miles 4 310 Save R94 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The author came to London from Lancashire as a nine-year old, having developed an interest in buses and trams at a very early age. He remained in south-west London for the next forty-five years. As a young teenager he took up locospotting, joining a small group of fellow enthusiasts who met regularly by the lineside at Clapham Junction, and avidly followed this hobby for roughly ten years. For the first half of that decade, his hobby was centred largely close to London because of age and money restrictions, and his trips further afield were rare. In this book, he describes his experiences: visiting stations, lineside watching, bunking sheds, and making more official trips to depots and works. He gives us a spotters-eye view of the changes to British Railways at the time: new steam locomotives still arriving; the early days of the Modernisation Plan; and seeing elderly locomotives at the end of their service life. Towards the end of this period, he acquired his first camera and uses these photographs to illustrate his exploits in the early years of his hobby.

Village Rails - A Game of Locomotives and Local Motives (Game): Matthew Dunstan, Brett Gilbert Village Rails - A Game of Locomotives and Local Motives (Game)
Matthew Dunstan, Brett Gilbert; Illustrated by Joanna Rosa
R429 Discovery Miles 4 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A 2-4 player card game of trains, tracks, and tricky decisions designed by the award-winning design duo Brett J. Gilbert and Matthew Dunstan. In the sleepy English countryside, life continues undisturbed as it has for centuries. It is up to you to travel to every corner of this land, bearing the promise of modernisation, accommodating the oddly specific demands of the locals, and ushering in the age of steam. In Village Rails, you will be criss-crossing the fields of England with railway lines, connecting villages together, and navigating the complex and ever-changing demands of rural communities. Connect stations and farmsteads to your local network while placing your railway signals and sidings ever so carefully. Meet the exacting standards of cantankerous locals planning strangely specific trips, and weigh their demands against your limited funding. There is much to balance in this tricky tableau-building card game of locomotives and local motives. Players: 2-4 Playing Time: 45 mins Age: 14+ Contents: 122 mini cards, 50+ tokens, 4 scoring dials

Rail Journeys (Paperback): David Ross Rail Journeys (Paperback)
David Ross
R238 Discovery Miles 2 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

There is always a sense of adventure when going on a railway journey. Whether it is aboard the Orient Express from London to Istanbul, or travelling the Transcontinental railroad through the Canadian Rockies to the Pacific coast, or riding the Serra Verde Express through the Brazilian rainforest, Rail Journeys takes the reader on a journey through some of the most unusual, romantic and remarkable landscapes in the world. Find out about the Coast Starlight, which carries passengers from Los Angeles along the Pacific coast to Seattle and all points in between; or the 7,000 kilometre Trans-Siberian, crossing the entirety of Mongolia and Russia from Beijing to Moscow; or 'El Chepe', the Mexican Copper Canyon railway, a line which took 90 years to build and negotiates 87 tunnels, 36 bridges and sweeping hairpin bends as it climbs from sea level to the rim-top views it offers at 2,400m; or enjoy the engineering excellence of the Konkan Railway in India, connecting Mumbai with the port of Mangalore via some 2,000 bridges and 90 tunnels; or experience the Shinkansen 'Bullet Train' as it races at speeds of more than 300 km/h between Tokyo and Kyoto, passing the iconic Mount Fuji on the way. With 210 outstanding colour photographs, Rail Journeys takes the reader to some of the most historic, spectacular and remotest locations in the world, places where trains still offer romantic and astounding experiences of rail travel at its best.

Slow Trains to Venice - A 4,000-Mile Adventure Across Europe (Paperback): Tom Chesshyre Slow Trains to Venice - A 4,000-Mile Adventure Across Europe (Paperback)
Tom Chesshyre 1
R227 Discovery Miles 2 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Do you love trains? Do you love adventure? If so, join Tom Chesshyre on his meandering rail journey across Europe from London to Venice. Escaping the rat race for a few happy weeks, Chesshyre indulges in the freedom of the tracks. From France (dogged by rail worker strikes), through Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Poland, he travels as far east as Odessa by the Black Sea in Ukraine. With no set plans, simply a desire to let the trains lead the way, he heads back via Hungary, the Balkans and Austria. Along the way he enjoys many an encounter, befriending fellow travellers as well as a conductor or two. This is a love letter to Europe, written from the trackside.

British Railways in the 1970s and '80s (Paperback): Greg Morse British Railways in the 1970s and '80s (Paperback)
Greg Morse
R242 R224 Discovery Miles 2 240 Save R18 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For British Rail, the 1970s was a time of contrasts, when bad jokes about sandwiches and pork pies often belied real achievements, like increasing computerisation and the arrival of the high-speed Inter-City 125s. But while television advertisements told of an 'Age of the Train', Monday morning misery continued for many, the commuter experience steadily worsening as rolling stock aged and grew ever more uncomfortable. Even when BR launched new electrification schemes and new suburban trains in the 1980s, focus still fell on the problems that beset the Advanced Passenger Train, whose ignominious end came under full media glare. In British Railways in the 1970s and '80s, Greg Morse guides us through a world of Traveller's Fare, concrete concourses and peak-capped porters, a difficult period that began with the aftershock of Beeching but ended with BR becoming the first nationalised passenger network in the world to make a profit.

Britain's Preserved Railways (Paperback): Andy Flowers Britain's Preserved Railways (Paperback)
Andy Flowers
R522 R426 Discovery Miles 4 260 Save R96 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The preserved heritage museum railways of Britain are thriving. Not only is there continuing nostalgia for the steam locomotives of a bygone era, but a growing number of diesel locos and multiple units, both in use and under restoration on site, make the different lines ever more attractive to the modern enthusiast. This book contains a multitude of information to help the reader find and enjoy these lines, including maps, mileages (miles and chains), gradient profiles and tables of locomotives and multiple units. Details of steam locomotives are covered, together with the often-overlooked ex-industrial steam and diesel locomotives. The information provided here also includes the statuses and current liveries of rolling stock at each of the featured railways, as well as details of future plans for expansion and refreshment facilities. Lavishly illustrated with colour photographs showing some of the best locations for lineside and station photography, this book is a vital guidebook for anyone looking to explore Britain's preserved railways.

German Railways - A Study in the Historical Geography of Transport (Paperback): Roy E.H. Mellor German Railways - A Study in the Historical Geography of Transport (Paperback)
Roy E.H. Mellor
R907 Discovery Miles 9 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1979, this volume is an invaluable study of a railway system and its adjustment to changing political-geographical conditions, as well as changes in economic and social geography. Each change in the territorial extent or in the internal territorial-administrative organisation of Germany has had its repercussions upon the spatial pattern of the country’s economy and consequently upon the demand for transport. Furthermore, the central position of Germany within the continent has given an added importance to the role of its railways in the overall pattern of the European railway system. For the transport geographer the comparisons and contrasts with the British railway system are particularly insightful.

Cornwall's Railway Heritage (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): John P. Stengelhofen Cornwall's Railway Heritage (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
John P. Stengelhofen
R225 R125 Discovery Miles 1 250 Save R100 (44%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Railway Nation - Tales of Canadian Pacific, the Worlds Greatest Travel System (Paperback): David Laurence Jones Railway Nation - Tales of Canadian Pacific, the Worlds Greatest Travel System (Paperback)
David Laurence Jones
R977 R811 Discovery Miles 8 110 Save R166 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Italian Ways - On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo (Paperback): Tim Parks Italian Ways - On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo (Paperback)
Tim Parks
R413 R341 Discovery Miles 3 410 Save R72 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Tim Parks s books on Italy have been hailed as "so vivid, so packed with delectable details, they] serve as a more than decent substitute for the real thing" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, in his first Italian travelogue in a decade, he delivers a charming and funny portrait of Italian ways by riding its trains from Verona to Milan, Rome to Palermo, and right down to the heel of Italy.

Parks begins as any traveler might: "A train is a train is a train, isn t it?" But soon he turns his novelist s eye to the details, and as he journeys through majestic Milano Centrale station or on the newest high-speed rail line, he delivers a uniquely insightful portrait of Italy. Through memorable encounters with ordinary Italians conductors and ticket collectors, priests and prostitutes, scholars and lovers, gypsies and immigrants Parks captures what makes Italian life distinctive: an obsession with speed but an acceptance of slower, older ways; a blind eye toward brutal architecture amid grand monuments; and an undying love of a good argument and the perfect cappuccino.

Italian Ways also explores how trains helped build Italy and how their development reflects Italians sense of themselves from Garibaldi to Mussolini to Berlusconi and beyond. Most of all, Italian Ways is an entertaining attempt to capture the essence of modern Italy. As Parks writes, "To see the country by train is to consider the crux of the essential Italian dilemma: Is Italy part of the modern world, or not?""

The Charleston & Hamburg - A South Carolina Railroad & an American Legacy (Paperback): Thomas Fetters The Charleston & Hamburg - A South Carolina Railroad & an American Legacy (Paperback)
Thomas Fetters
R591 R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Save R97 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A comprehensive account of the Charleston & Hamburg's history from its inception through Reconstruction, "The Charleston & Hamburg," with its forgotten stories of America's premier railroad, is a necessary addition to the bookshelves of historians and rail fans alike!

An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Locomotives - Locomotives, An Illustrated Encyclopedia of (Hardcover): Colin Garratt An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Locomotives - Locomotives, An Illustrated Encyclopedia of (Hardcover)
Colin Garratt
R542 R433 Discovery Miles 4 330 Save R109 (20%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From the early years of steam power to today's awe-inspiring high-speed passenger trains, this book spans nearly two centuries of locomotive history. It covers the first designs of the 1830s, early North American freight trains, the golden age of railways from 1900-1950, the crossover from steam power to diesel and electric, and how the locomotive was transformed into the superior passenger and freight-pulling power of today. Bringing us to the present, the latest developments are highlighted, including the modern wonders that are Europe's Eurostar and the Japanese bullet train. This definitive history of locomotive technology from the 1830s to 2000 charts the development of locomotive design throughout the world, including Britain, the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, India, China, Japan and the Pacific Rim, and includes detailed specification boxes for over 100 key locomotive designs. With insightful text and 700 photographs, the book is a guide that will appeal to all railway enthusiasts. *

Abandoned Train Stations (Hardcover): David Ross Abandoned Train Stations (Hardcover)
David Ross
R535 Discovery Miles 5 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Mysterious ghost stations forgotten beneath the cities of Paris and London; desolate grand rail hubs in the Pyrenean mountains; metro stations in China that terminate in a wasteland; Abandoned Train Stations looks at some of the thousands of disused station buildings, platforms, lines, tunnels, and rail yards left behind by modernity. Organised by continent, this book takes the reader to every corner of the globe. Explore Canfranc International Railway Station, once a busy mountain hub of international travel between France and Spain; see the eerily empty platform at Kings Cross Thameslink, London, today a service tunnel following the station's closure in the early 2000s; examine the grandiose Michigan Central Train Station in Detroit, an historic Amtrak rail depot, and once the tallest rail station in the world; marvel at the dusty, overgrown shell of Abkhazia's once beautiful railway station in Psyrtskha, a physical legacy of the former Soviet era in the Caucasus; see the disused Tiwanaku train station, situated almost 4,000 metres above sea level in the Bolivian Andes; or learn about the fascinating Istvantelek Train Yard, in the Hungarian capital of Budapest, better known as the 'Red Star train graveyard' because of its many Soviet-era engine wrecks. Illustrated with more than 200 photographs, Abandoned Train Stations provides a fascinating pictorial journey through the little-known remnants of rail transport infrastructure from every part of the world.

Crosscountry Trains - Providing the Rail Services Connecting Britain's Towns and Cities (Paperback): John Balmforth Crosscountry Trains - Providing the Rail Services Connecting Britain's Towns and Cities (Paperback)
John Balmforth
R455 R372 Discovery Miles 3 720 Save R83 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

CrossCountry Trains Ltd won the right to operate the CrossCountry franchise from 11 November 2007 when the Strategic Rail Authority determined that its bid for the franchise was the best value for money and the most sustainable. CrossCountry operates the most extensive passenger rail network in the UK covering 16 million route miles per year; it also operates the longest rail service in the UK - the 08:20 a.m. Aberdeen to Penzance (774 miles). Based in the centre of England in Birmingham, the company serves seven of the country's largest cities and provides 295 services every weekday, which equates to around 30 million passenger journeys per year. It also employs around 1,626 employees. The company does not operate any stations itself, but CrossCountry's trains do call at more than 119 stations stretching from Aberdeen in the north, Stansted Airport in the east, Cardiff in the west and Penzance in the south west. With Birmingham New Street at the hub, its services crisscross the country in a similar pattern to that of the UK motorway system.

Birmingham and West Midlands Railway Atlas - 2nd Edition (Hardcover): Joe Brown Birmingham and West Midlands Railway Atlas - 2nd Edition (Hardcover)
Joe Brown
R784 R645 Discovery Miles 6 450 Save R139 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Europe by Eurail 2023 - Touring Europe by Train (Paperback, 47th Edition): Laverne Ferguson-Kosinski Europe by Eurail 2023 - Touring Europe by Train (Paperback, 47th Edition)
Laverne Ferguson-Kosinski; Revised by Darren Price
R605 R500 Discovery Miles 5 000 Save R105 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Europe by Eurail has been the train traveler's one-stop source for visiting Europe's cities and countries by rail for nearly fifty years. Newly revised and updated, this comprehensive annual guide provides the latest information on fares, schedules, and pass options, as well as detailed information on more than one hundred specific rail excursions and sightseeing options.

Eleven Minutes Late - A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain (Paperback, Unabridged edition): Matthew Engel Eleven Minutes Late - A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain (Paperback, Unabridged edition)
Matthew Engel 1
R310 R247 Discovery Miles 2 470 Save R63 (20%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Britain gave railways to the world, yet its own network is the dearest (definitely) and the worst (probably) in Western Europe. Trains are deeply embedded in the national psyche and folklore - yet it is considered uncool to care about them. For Matthew Engel the railway system is the ultimate expression of Britishness. It represents all the nation's ingenuity, incompetence, nostalgia, corruption, humour, capacity for suffering and even sexual repression. To uncover its mysteries, Engel has travelled the system from Penzance to Thurso, exploring its history and talking to people from politicians to platform staff. Along the way Engel ('half-John Betjeman, half-Victor Meldrew') finds the most charmingly bizarre train in Britain, the most beautiful branch line, the rudest railwayman, and - after a quest lasting decades - an Individual Pot of Strawberry Jam. Eleven Minutes Late is both a polemic and a paean, and it is also very funny.

Early and First Generation Green Diesels in Photographs (Hardcover): Brian J. Dickson Early and First Generation Green Diesels in Photographs (Hardcover)
Brian J. Dickson
R518 Discovery Miles 5 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The 'Big Four' railways had experimented with diesel-powered shunting locomotives from 1933 with the Great Western Railway seeing the advantages of operating diesel-powered railcars, and doing so successfully from the same date. The 1955 'Modernisation Report' predicted the end of steam power and laid out the basis of the 'Pilot Scheme' for the introduction of main-line diesel locomotives to British Railways. A number of these hastily designed classes of locomotives were found wanting in terms of power and especially reliability, but pressure to forge ahead with their introduction meant that the numbers constructed were unrealistic and, in consequence, many had very short operating lives. Fortunately, the 'Pilot Scheme' did bring forward some excellent reliable classes of locomotives that were produced in large numbers, with examples surviving into the modern railway operating companies and the preservation scene. Early and First Generation Green Diesels in Photographs brings together the work of four photographers - Ron Buckley, Robert Butterfield, Andrew Forsyth and Hugh Ramsay - charting the development of diesels in their photographs from 1949 to 1966.

The Underground Pioneers (Hardcover): Andrew Emmerson The Underground Pioneers (Hardcover)
Andrew Emmerson
R572 Discovery Miles 5 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Modern Railway 2021 (Paperback): Sherratt, Philip The Modern Railway 2021 (Paperback)
Sherratt, Philip
R797 R659 Discovery Miles 6 590 Save R138 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Produced annually by the team from Modern Railways - the leading monthly rail magazine, The Modern Railway 2021 offers a comprehensive review of the UK rail industry, together with an overview of events in Europe. With contributions from Roger Ford, Tony Miles, Alan Williams and other members of the team, The Modern Railway 2021 provides an in-depth examination of: Policy and finance, Infrastructure maintenance and renewal, Train operation (passenger and freight), Major projects now under way including the recently confirmed HS2, Rolling stock manufacturing and maintenance, Signalling and telecommunications, Customer interface and support, Light rail and Metro systems as well as European developments. And in addition to editorial coverage of all the main players and projects, The publication includes a comprehensive directory of almost 3,000 suppliers and businesses involved in all aspects of the UK rail industry.

Railways of Leicestershire in the Twenty-first Century (Paperback): John Jackson Railways of Leicestershire in the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
John Jackson
R482 R391 Discovery Miles 3 910 Save R91 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A quick look at today's map of the county of Leicestershire and it's easy to see that its county town, Leicester, sits at an important railway crossroads. With London to the south and the East Midlands cities of Derby and Nottingham to the north, the line linking St Pancras and Sheffield is crossed in Leicester by one of England's most important east-west link lines. This link provides passenger rail journey opportunities to and from Birmingham to the west and the cities of Peterborough and Cambridge to the east. In addition, it is playing an increasingly important role as a freight route to and from East Anglia, including connecting the UK's largest container port at Felixstowe with a number of terminals across the country. The line between Leicester and Burton on Trent may have lost its passenger service, but it remains an important access route to the quarries in the area around Coalville. The county's railways may have been drastically pruned by the Beeching Axe, but they still have a wide variety of traffic on offer. In this book John Jackson looks at the variety of traffic at work on the county's main lines. The story is completed by a glance at today's roll of Brush's workshops in Loughborough and loco servicing and stabling facility now occupying the former depot at Leicester itself.

Dickens on Railways - A Great Novelist's Travels by Train (Hardcover): Charles Dickens Dickens on Railways - A Great Novelist's Travels by Train (Hardcover)
Charles Dickens; Edited by Tony Williams 1
R453 R380 Discovery Miles 3 800 Save R73 (16%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In the mid-nineteenth century, the great age of railway building, Charles Dickens could not but be aware of their transformative impact on society. So he wrote about it - to a remarkable extent. He wrote a classic ghost story, 'The Signalman'; in Dombey and Son about what is now the West Coast Main Line being carved through north London in great ravines. He wrote satirical pieces about railway catering - even back then; about the wonder of express train travel to the Channel ports; travel pieces about exploring America by train - and about being personally involved in the notorious Staplehurst train crash in Kent. Now, in the year of Dickens' 150th anniversary, Tony Williams, a distinguished Dickens scholar, collects all these railway writings into a handsome little volume ideal for a long train journey...

Piercing The Pennines - Heroic railways linking Lancashire and Yorkshire (Hardcover): David Joy Piercing The Pennines - Heroic railways linking Lancashire and Yorkshire (Hardcover)
David Joy
R619 R507 Discovery Miles 5 070 Save R112 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Lancashire and Yorkshire led Britain and the world into the industrial revolution, yet were long cut off by the Pennine chain. The railway age finally brought the two counties together and ensured the continued growth of Manchester as Britain's second city. It was linked to Leeds and Sheffield by a series of heroic railway tunnels, three of which were successively the longest in the world when completed in the 1840s. Often taken for granted, this book portrays them as extraordinary achievements against seemingly insuperable odds that deserve the fullest recognition. These pages look not just at the tunnels and the men who created them but also at how lines built through them connected key stations either side of the Pennines. They step back further in history to show how canals paved the way for the railways and also look forward to the future with its brave talk of HS3 achieving journey times that seem unimaginable. There is a remarkable collection of illustrations ranging from period lithographs through to present-day photographs. The many varied themes in this book include: * The vision of George Stephenson - 'Father of Railways' * Navvies left to fend for themselves in huts thrown together with loose stones and thatch * Drunken riots following pay day * Death and chronic illness at Woodhead tunnel on top of the Pennines * Enginemen coming close to suffocation when working heavy freights through the tunnels * Early travellers who preferred to get off and walk rather than travel through a tunnel behind a 'steam monster' * Branwell Bronte, errant brother of the literary sisters, dismissed for constant carelessness at a Calder Valley station * The magnificent Huddersfield station - a stately home with trains * The Midland Railway with almost eight miles of tunnel between Sheffield and Manchester * Inferno in a tunnel when a derailed tanker train caught fire and temperatures reached 1,500 degrees C. * The superb new Woodhead tunnel with its electric services that closed to passengers after only 16 years

Signals Passed at Danger - Railway Power and Politics in Britain (Hardcover): Richard Faulkner, Chris Austin Signals Passed at Danger - Railway Power and Politics in Britain (Hardcover)
Richard Faulkner, Chris Austin
R762 R620 Discovery Miles 6 200 Save R142 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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