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

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
R437 R406 Discovery Miles 4 060 Save R31 (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?""

Iron Empires - Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America (Paperback): Michael Hiltzik Iron Empires - Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America (Paperback)
Michael Hiltzik
R464 R411 Discovery Miles 4 110 Save R53 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Life and Times of a Duke (Hardcover): Martyn J. McGinty The Life and Times of a Duke (Hardcover)
Martyn J. McGinty
R727 Discovery Miles 7 270 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
R768 Discovery Miles 7 680 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
R865 Discovery Miles 8 650 Ships in 12 - 19 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
R3,018 Discovery Miles 30 180 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.

San Diego and Arizona Railway - The Impossible Railroad (Hardcover): Reena Deutsch San Diego and Arizona Railway - The Impossible Railroad (Hardcover)
Reena Deutsch
R674 Discovery Miles 6 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Railways of the West Riding of Yorkshire (Paperback): Bernard Warr Railways of the West Riding of Yorkshire (Paperback)
Bernard Warr
R585 R513 Discovery Miles 5 130 Save R72 (12%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The West Riding of Yorkshire boasted the most complex railway network in Britain, comprised at various times of seven railway companies, with an eighth trying to secure a foothold, eleven significant joint lines and several minor systems. With no overall strategic pattern of territory or route, the companies seemed to vie incessantly for supremacy, often at the expense of efficiency with the significant duplication of facilities: over twenty-five towns and villages had two passenger stations, while some even had three or four! This book reviews the local history, including its economy and key industries. It describes the need for the railways and the political and geographical challenges they faced. It discusses the impact on the region of 'railway mania' experienced throughout Britain in the mid-nineteenth century. The many locomotives that worked these lines are celebrated, with a behind-the-scenes look at their yards, sheds and roundhouses. The lost branch lines and stations are remembered. Finally, there are individual chapters covering Leeds, Doncaster, Barnsley and the coalfields, Sheffield and Rotherham, Airedale and Wharfedale, the Aire and Calder watershed, the Calder Valley and Huddersfield.

Yreka Western Railroad (Hardcover): Matt Starman, Tim Stricker Yreka Western Railroad (Hardcover)
Matt Starman, Tim Stricker
R781 R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Save R95 (12%) 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
R674 Discovery Miles 6 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Railroads and Depots of Orange County (Hardcover): Rob Richardson Railroads and Depots of Orange County (Hardcover)
Rob Richardson
R781 R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Save R95 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Virginia & Truckee Railroad - Railroad to the Comstock (Hardcover): Stephen E. Drew Virginia & Truckee Railroad - Railroad to the Comstock (Hardcover)
Stephen E. Drew
R719 Discovery Miles 7 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Ticket to Ride - Around the World on 49 Unusual Train Journeys (Paperback): Tom Chesshyre Ticket to Ride - Around the World on 49 Unusual Train Journeys (Paperback)
Tom Chesshyre 1
R305 R276 Discovery Miles 2 760 Save R29 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Experience the world by train alongside best-selling travel writer Tom Chesshyre, as he takes a whistle-stop tour around the globe in 49 unique journeys Why do people love trains so much? Tom Chesshyre is on a mission to find the answer by experiencing the world through train travel - on both epic and everyday rail routes, aboard every type of ride, from steam locomotives to bullet trains, meeting a cast of memorable characters who share a passion for train travel. Join him on the rails and off the beaten track as he embarks on an exhilarating whistle-stop tour around the globe, on journeys on celebrated trains and railways including: India's famed toy train Sri Lanka's Reunification Express The Indian Pacific across the Australian outback The Shanghai maglev And the picturesque rail journeys of the Scottish Highlands Plus trains through Kosovo, North Macedonia, Turkey, Iran, Finland, Russia, America and France, with short interludes in North Korea, Italy, Poland, Peru, Switzerland, England and Lithuania. All aboard!

Roaring Camp Railroads (Hardcover): Beniam Kifle Roaring Camp Railroads (Hardcover)
Beniam Kifle
R781 R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Save R95 (12%) 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
R822 Discovery Miles 8 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Chicago's Lost Ls (Hardcover): David Sadowski Chicago's Lost Ls (Hardcover)
David Sadowski
R744 Discovery Miles 7 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Railway Nationalization (Hardcover): Clement 1869- Edwards Railway Nationalization (Hardcover)
Clement 1869- Edwards
R936 Discovery Miles 9 360 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
R1,030 Discovery Miles 10 300 Ships in 12 - 19 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
R1,246 Discovery Miles 12 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Akron Railroads (Hardcover): Craig Sanders Akron Railroads (Hardcover)
Craig Sanders
R781 R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Save R95 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rockford Area Railroads (Hardcover): Mike Schafer Rockford Area Railroads (Hardcover)
Mike Schafer; As told to Brian Landis
R674 Discovery Miles 6 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Brooklyn Streetcars (Hardcover): Branford Electric Railway Association Brooklyn Streetcars (Hardcover)
Branford Electric Railway Association
R674 Discovery Miles 6 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Erie Railroad's Newburgh Branch (Hardcover): Robert Mccue Erie Railroad's Newburgh Branch (Hardcover)
Robert Mccue
R781 R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Save R95 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sumpter Valley Logging Railroads (Hardcover): Alfred Mullett, Leonard Merritt Sumpter Valley Logging Railroads (Hardcover)
Alfred Mullett, Leonard Merritt
R723 Discovery Miles 7 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Problems of Transportation in Canada [microform] (Hardcover): J P B (Joseph Philippe B Casgrain The Problems of Transportation in Canada [microform] (Hardcover)
J P B (Joseph Philippe B Casgrain
R932 Discovery Miles 9 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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