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

Brill Magazine; v. 11 1917-21 (Hardcover): Anonymous Brill Magazine; v. 11 1917-21 (Hardcover)
Anonymous
R1,092 Discovery Miles 10 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Do Not Alight Here - Pocket Edition (Paperback): Ben Pedroche Do Not Alight Here - Pocket Edition (Paperback)
Ben Pedroche
R256 Discovery Miles 2 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Our very successful pocket book giving details of London walks to see the sites of disused railway structures is now available in a new edition with maps. Updated to the first half of 2021, the book provides ideas for walks now we are all getting out more. Maps of each route have now been added to accompany the descriptions and photos.

LMS/BR Class 7 4-6-0 Rebuilds - The Rebuilt Jubilee, Patriot and Royal Scot Locomotives (Hardcover): David Clarke LMS/BR Class 7 4-6-0 Rebuilds - The Rebuilt Jubilee, Patriot and Royal Scot Locomotives (Hardcover)
David Clarke
R806 R755 Discovery Miles 7 550 Save R51 (6%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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. Topics covered include: origins of the rebuilt Class 7s in the 1940s and the design of the 2A boiler; differences between the classes; liveries, names and finally, name plates; detailed allocation tables. There are chapters on the rebuilt Class 7s to the rescue - the severe winter of 1962/3; the decline of the Class 7s and withdrawal in the 1960s and finally, the preservation of the Class 7 rebuilds.

The Dao of Doug 2 - The Art of Driving A Bus: Keeping Zen in San Francisco Transit: A Line Trainer's Guide (Hardcover):... The Dao of Doug 2 - The Art of Driving A Bus: Keeping Zen in San Francisco Transit: A Line Trainer's Guide (Hardcover)
Douglas Meriwether
R873 R758 Discovery Miles 7 580 Save R115 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Railway Master Mechanic [microform]; v.36 (Hardcover): Anonymous Railway Master Mechanic [microform]; v.36 (Hardcover)
Anonymous
R1,168 Discovery Miles 11 680 Ships in 12 - 19 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 R385 Discovery Miles 3 850 Save R28 (7%) 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?""

History of the New York & Harlem Railroad / (Hardcover): E Clarence (Elijah Clarence) Hyatt History of the New York & Harlem Railroad / (Hardcover)
E Clarence (Elijah Clarence) Hyatt
R748 Discovery Miles 7 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Life and Times of a Duke (Hardcover): Martyn J. McGinty The Life and Times of a Duke (Hardcover)
Martyn J. McGinty
R740 Discovery Miles 7 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the story of a quarter-century struggle to rebuild from scrap condition a unique locomotive, it being an essential part of the British engineering heritage.It covers the unusual and efficient Caprotti valve gear in depth and solves the mystery of why the locomotive did not work properly in service. It was never improved until it was restored and its secrets revealed with a surprising conclusion.

Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway (Hardcover): Thomas Dyrek Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway (Hardcover)
Thomas Dyrek
R782 Discovery Miles 7 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Argosy and Railroad Man's Magazine, Apr 5 1919 (Hardcover): Anonymous Argosy and Railroad Man's Magazine, Apr 5 1919 (Hardcover)
Anonymous
R881 Discovery Miles 8 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Eckhart Mines, The National Road, & the Eckhart Railroad (Paperback): Patrick Stakem Eckhart Mines, The National Road, & the Eckhart Railroad (Paperback)
Patrick Stakem
R282 Discovery Miles 2 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Iron Landscapes - National Space and the Railways in Interwar Czechoslovakia (Hardcover): Felix Jeschke Iron Landscapes - National Space and the Railways in Interwar Czechoslovakia (Hardcover)
Felix Jeschke
R3,076 Discovery Miles 30 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the newly formed country of Czechoslovakia built an ambitious national rail network out of what remained of the obsolete Habsburg system. While conceived as a means of knitting together a young and ethnically diverse nation-state, these railways were by their very nature a transnational phenomenon, and as such they simultaneously articulated and embodied a distinctive Czechoslovak cosmopolitanism. Drawing on evidence ranging from government documents to newsreels to train timetables, Iron Landscapes gives a nuanced account of how planners and authorities balanced these two imperatives, bringing the cultural history of infrastructure into dialogue with the spatial history of Central Europe.

Yreka Western Railroad (Hardcover): Matt Starman, Tim Stricker Yreka Western Railroad (Hardcover)
Matt Starman, Tim Stricker
R822 R718 Discovery Miles 7 180 Save R104 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Southern Railway's Historic Spencer Shops (Hardcover): Larry K Neal Southern Railway's Historic Spencer Shops (Hardcover)
Larry K Neal; Foreword by Jim Wrinn
R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Railroads and Depots of Orange County (Hardcover): Rob Richardson Railroads and Depots of Orange County (Hardcover)
Rob Richardson
R822 R718 Discovery Miles 7 180 Save R104 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The President Travels by Train - Politics and Pullmans (Hardcover, Revised Reprint with New Material ed.): Bob Withers The President Travels by Train - Politics and Pullmans (Hardcover, Revised Reprint with New Material ed.)
Bob Withers
R1,269 Discovery Miles 12 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Virginia & Truckee Railroad - Railroad to the Comstock (Hardcover): Stephen E. Drew Virginia & Truckee Railroad - Railroad to the Comstock (Hardcover)
Stephen E. Drew
R732 Discovery Miles 7 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Tube Map Travels (Hardcover): Maxwell Roberts Tube Map Travels (Hardcover)
Maxwell Roberts
R721 Discovery Miles 7 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Roaring Camp Railroads (Hardcover): Beniam Kifle Roaring Camp Railroads (Hardcover)
Beniam Kifle
R822 R718 Discovery Miles 7 180 Save R104 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
An Account of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway - Comprising a History of the Parliamentary Proceedings Preparatory to the... An Account of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway - Comprising a History of the Parliamentary Proceedings Preparatory to the Passing of the Act, a Description of the Railway in an Excursion From Liverpool to Manchester, and a Popular Illustration Of... (Hardcover)
Henry 1788-1869 Booth, M Theremin, Bern Dibner
R842 Discovery Miles 8 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Chicago's Lost Ls (Hardcover): David Sadowski Chicago's Lost Ls (Hardcover)
David Sadowski
R757 Discovery Miles 7 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Railway Nationalization (Hardcover): Clement 1869- Edwards Railway Nationalization (Hardcover)
Clement 1869- Edwards
R954 Discovery Miles 9 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Freight Rates and Charges. Laws, Rules and Regulations Governing the Construction, Operation and Development of Railroad... Freight Rates and Charges. Laws, Rules and Regulations Governing the Construction, Operation and Development of Railroad Freight Rates and Charges in Their Application to Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Reproduction of Chapter 6 of Loose-leaf Traffic... (Hardcover)
Harry Cleveland 1884- Barnes
R1,049 Discovery Miles 10 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Brooklyn Streetcars (Hardcover): Branford Electric Railway Association Brooklyn Streetcars (Hardcover)
Branford Electric Railway Association
R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Akron Railroads (Hardcover): Craig Sanders Akron Railroads (Hardcover)
Craig Sanders
R822 R718 Discovery Miles 7 180 Save R104 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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