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Through Time eBook Series

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  • The London to Brighton Line Through Time

    by Simon Jeffs ...
    Series series Through Time
    The London to Brighton Line was opened in 1841 by the London & Brighton Railway, providing a service between London Bridge Station and the fashionable South Coast. Although the railway started carrying day trippers, the rapid expansion of the suburbs south of London during the nineteenth century meant that the line (absorbed into the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway) was soon running ... Read more

    12,29 €

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  • Last Trains

    Dr Beeching and the death of rural England

    by Charles Loft ...
    "The debate about Dr Richard Beeching will rage until the Second Coming – and probably beyond. But in Charles Loft's careful examination of the Beeching Report, we have as fine a study as we are going to possess in the meantime." – Peter Hennessy"Loft's great strength is his judiciousness. He understands the political processes and assesses them fair-mindedly. And his verdict will, I suspect, hold ... Read more

    5,40 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Journey 8: Brighton to Cromer

    by Charlie Bunce ...
    Series Book 8 - Great British Railway Journeys
    A glorious insight into the history, landscape and people of Britain, from The Sunday Times bestseller.The railway line between Brighton and London bridged the gap between capital, countryside and coast, fostering the rise of the new middle classes created by the Industrial revolution and transforming Brighton from a royal playground into a busy resort. Travelling through London, Michael Portillo ... Read more

    2,68 €

  • China's Great Train

    Beijing's Drive West and the Campaign to Remake Tibet

    by Abrahm Lustgarten ...
    A vivid account of China's unstoppable quest to build a railway into Tibet, and its obsession to transform its land and its peopleIn the summer of 2006, the Chinese government fulfilled a fifty-year plan to build a railway into Tibet. Since Mao Zedong first envisioned it, the line had grown into an imperative, a critical component of China's breakneck expansion and the final maneuver in ... Read more

    Was 12,29 € Now 10,80 €

  • Forget the Anorak

    What Trainspotting Was Really Like

    by Michael G Harvey ...
    Michael Harvey's book brings to its readers the excitement of trainspotting in the 1950s and '60s, the hobby's heyday. It was the advent of the famous Ian Allan ABC Locospotters books that really gave the hobby its impetus, as they gave trainspotters all the information they required. Forget the Anorak sets out to provide the reader with a personal account of what the hobby entailed - teenagers ... Read more

    7,52 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Signalman's Morning

    by Adrian Vaughan ...
    Signalman's Morning is the first of a trilogy tracing a love affair with the coal-fired railway, from love at first sight in 1945 to divorce in 1975. Adrian Vaughan, born in Reading in January 1941, fell in love with the entire spectacle of the steam railway. It was the Greatest Free Show on Earth. It had drama, it had wonderful peace and relaxation, it was musical and it had poetry - to those ... Read more

    14,09 €

  • The Great Lakes Car Ferries

    by George W. Hilton ...
    This e-book contains all of the text and graphics of the original printed edition.There was a time in the United States when railroad tunnels and bridges were only dreams in the minds of designers, when the best way to move railroad cars across bodies of water was to load them on specialized ships designed specifically for this purpose.With this utilitarian principle in mind, shipbuilders around ... Read more

    12,99 €

  • British Railways Steam 1948-1970

    by L. A. Summers ...
    Over the forty-five years since the last BR steam locomotive was taken out of service, there have been many books and articles devoted to re-threshing the facts in the matter of the Standard classes of steam locomotive, some praising the development of the ‘last best chance’ for British steam and others suggesting that they were appalling anachronisms, the investment in which would have been ... Read more

    15,89 €

  • Dundurn Railroad 6-Book Bundle

    Rails Over the Mountains / Rails to the Atlantic / Rails Across Ontario / and 3 more

    by Ron Brown ...
    A must for any Canadian railroad aficionado, this special bundle gathers six books in one for a can’t-miss retrospective of the nation’s railway history.Rails Over the MountainsExplore western Canada’s rich railway history, travelling from the grand railway hotels and rustic stations to relive a time when trains used to rumble in the West.Rails to the AtlanticExplore eastern Canada’s railway ... Read more

    Was 27,76 € Now 23,73 €

  • The Great Western Railway in the First World War

    by Sandra Gittins ...
    In August 1914 the GWR was plunged into war, the like of which this country had never experienced before. Over the years that followed life changed beyond measure, both for the men sent away to fight and the women who took on new roles at home. Not since 1922 has the history of the GWR in the First World War been recorded in a single volume. Using modern data-bases and enjoying greater access to ... Read more

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  • Colne Valley & Halstead Railway Through Time

    by Andy T. Wallis ...
    Series series Through Time
    This book takes an in-depth look at the small independent railway that was financed and built by the good citizens of Halstead and its surrounding villages in Essex. The CV&HR came into being in 1860 but struggled financially for a number of years before being put into receivership. However, in the late nineteenth century it made steady progress and reached its financial and traffic peak in the ... Read more

    12,29 €

  • The Severn Valley Railway

    by Michael A. Vanns ...
    Series series Heritage Railway Guide
    The Severn Valley Railway has long been considered by many to be Britains premier heritage railway. That reputation was earned early thanks to the quality of locomotive and carriage restoration, the careful refurbishment of stations and the standard of service offered to visitors. As with all heritage railways it has had to adapt to changing expectations over the years whilst attempting to keep ... Read more

    13,03 € or Free with Kobo Plus