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  • Death, Dynamite and Disaster

    A Grisly British Railway History

    by Rosa Matheson ...
    A safe mode of transport today, the railways were far from vehicles of sleepy commute when they first came into service; indeed, accidents were commonplace and sometimes were a result of something far more sinister. In this fresh approach to railway history, Rosa Matheson explores the grim and grisly railway past.These horrible happenings include memorable disasters and accidents, the lack of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fair Sex: Women and the Great Western Railway

    Women and the Great Western Railway

    by Rosa Matheson ...
    The Great Western Railway struggled with what was called 'the women question' for many years. It had heartily agreed with The Railway Sheet and Official Gazette that 'the first aim of women's existence is marriage, that accomplished, the next is ordering her home'. Yet women were the cheapest form of labour, apart from young girls, presenting the company with a dilemma and the GWR finally ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The GWR Story

    by Rosa Matheson ...
    The Great Western Railway – quickly coming to be known as 'God's Wonderful Railway' – was once regarded as the most advanced in the world. Engineered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel it was initially designed to connect Bristol to London and came to develop a distinct character all of its own, one of the many reasons why it remains a much-loved and popular area of interest. This book traces its history ... Read more

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  • Terror in the Tunnels

    Britain's Dangerous Railway History

    by Rosa Matheson ...
    The exciting early days of the railways were tempered with danger, as the Victorian concept of health and safety was rather different to ours. Going 'into the dark' was a frightening experience and tunneling under the ground and under water was a death-defying activity in nineteenth-century Britain – many workers and travellers paid the ultimate price. Flooding, collapses and explosions, as well ... Read more

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  • Swindon Works: The Legend

    The Legend

    by Rosa Matheson ...
    The age of steam is past, the heyday of Swindon Works is long gone – but the legend lives on. What made the Great Western Railway's Swindon Works iconic? Was it its worldwide reputation; perhaps its profound impact in shaping the new town of Swindon; or that it melded those who worked there into one big family? In a new and exciting format, this book, by popular railway historian Rosa Matheson, ... Read more

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  • Great British Steam Locomotives that Made History

    The Story of Railways in Britain

    by Rosa Matheson ...
    From small beginnings in ancient times, the 'magic of steam' grew until it delivered to an incredulous world a magnificent machine: the steam locomotive – and so began what was to become a never-ending love story.Many believed the 'Age of Steam' would die in the 1960s, but the passion for these much-loved and -admired locomotives has ensured they live on into the twenty-first century, as we ... Read more

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  • British Railways in the 1950s and ’60s

    by Greg Morse ...
    Series Book 699 - Shire Library
    As Britain moved from austerity to prosperity in the 1950s and 1960s, it became clear that British Railways needed to modernise its equipment and rationalise its network if it was to hold its own in the face of growing competition from road and air transport.After attempting to maintain pre-war networks and technology in the 1950s, a reversal of policy in the 1960s brought line closures, new ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Shadows in the Steam

    The Haunted Railways of Britain

    by David Brandon, Alan Brooke ...
    Ghosts traditionally make their presence felt in many ways, from unexplained footfalls and chills to odours and apparitions. This fascinating volume takes a look at some of the strange and unexplained hauntings across Britain's railway network: signals and messages sent from empty boxes; trains that went into tunnels and never left; ghostly passengers and spectral crew; the wires whizzing to ... Read more

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  • I Tried to Run a Railway

    by Gerard Fiennes ...
    'BR rebel chairman resigns' The Guardian.'Rebel rail chief in row' Daily Mail.'I don't take it back says sacked rail chief' Daily Express.This is the notorious book that got Gerard Fiennes sacked from British Railways while he was Chairman and General Manager of the Eastern Region in 1968.Fiennes became a railwayman by accident, joining the L.N.E.R as a Traffic Apprentice in 1928. Over the next ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Shropshire Railways

    by Geoff Cryer ...
    An examination of four hundred years of railways in Shropshire, from the primitive wagonways of the pre-railway age to the county's current rail network and services. Fully illustrated with almost two hundred monochrome and colour photos, Shropshire Railways is an ideal resource for anyone with an interest in this county with its rich railway history, and home to one of Britain's top heritage ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Steam Workshops of the Great Western Railway

    by Ken Gibbs ...
    The nineteenth century was a time of innovation and expansion across the industrial landscape, and nowhere more so than on the railways, as the new age of iron, steel and steam, literally, gathered pace. At the head of the race up was the iconic Great Western Railway. As this mighty corporation grew, it absorbed an astonishing 353 railway companies. Many of them had their own workshops, depots and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of the Great Western Railway

    by Colin Maggs, MBE ...
    The story of the most iconic railway company of the great age of steam.The initials ‘GWR’ conjure an evocative picture of a Brunswick green locomotive hauling tea-and-cream-coloured coaches through a verdant West Country landscape. But the GWR was not just engines and trains.In this comprehensive history, Colin Maggs, one of the country’s foremost railway historians, tells of other, perhaps less ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD