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Through Time eBook Series

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  • Camden Goods Station Through Time

    by Peter Darley ...
    Series series Through Time
    The London & Birmingham Railway was the major project of its day, designed by Robert Stephenson, one of the great railway pioneers, who also supervised its construction and its opening in 1837. Camden Goods Station became the goods terminus and Euston Station the passenger terminus. For a few years trains were hauled by rope from Euston up the incline to Camden before the intensification of both ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • In Search of the Grand Trunk

    Ghost Rail Lines in Ontario

    by Ron Brown ...
    Explore Ontario's forgotten rail lines and experience the legacy and lore of this the vital railway era of Ontario's history. At its peak between 1880 and the 1920s, Ontario was criss-crossed by more than 20,000 kilometres of rail trackage. Today , only a fraction remains. Yet trains once hauled everything from strawberries to grain, cans of milk and even eels. Villagers depended on trains to ... Read more

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  • Blood on the Tracks

    A History of Railway Crime in Britain

    by David Brandon, Alan Brooke ...
    Between 1835 and the 1850s, railway mania blossomed around Britain. Crime emerged as the railways developed, at first opportunistic crimes such as fare evasion and robberies, but gradually more inventive forms evolved, notably the minor clerk Redpath in the 1850s, whose shameless cooking of the books to live the high life exposed the lack of any kind of accountancy across the railway industry. The ... Read more

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  • Signalman's Nightmare

    by Adrian Vaughan ...
    Signalman's Nightmare is the third volume of Adrian Vaughan's memories of his career on the Western Region of British Railways. The book begins in 1962 at Challow and starts with a confession of his terrible contravention of the regulations brought about by an intense desire not to delay a passenger train. He learned a strong lesson there. The story moves on to mourn the passing of steam haulage ... Read more

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  • Deltics

    The Final Roar

    by Alastair McLean ...
    In 1980, the first of the Deltics was withdrawn from service. By late 1981, they had all gone, after two decades as Britain's fastest and most powerful locos. This unique class of twenty-two diesel locomotives was powered by twin Napier Deltic engines, originally designed for minesweepers, but utilised in these high power, high speed locomotives. Designed for the East Coast Main Line, the Deltics ... Read more

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  • Isambard Kingdom Brunel

    The Engineering Visionary

    by Eugene Byrne ...
    In a BBC poll in 2002, Isambard Kingdom Brunel was voted the second-greatest Briton of all time, only eclipsed by Winston Churchill.In the soaring ambitions of the Victorian age, nobody thought bigger than Brunel; indeed, it's often claimed that that, through his ships, bridges, tunnels and railways, he played a critical role in creating the modern world. Never tied to a dusty office, he crammed ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Public Transportation Quality of Service

    Factors, Models, and Applications

    by Angel Ibeas, Luigi Dell´Olio, Juan de Ona, Rocio de Ona ...
    Public Transportation Quality of Service: Factors, Models, and Applications is the first book to help researchers better understand the contributing factors that can improve public transportation perception among users. The book compiles in one place metrics currently dispersed in journal articles, government publications and book chapters. It critically analyzes currently available modeling ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Northern Pacific Railway Directory Fargo, North Dakota 1896-1916

    by Robert Grey Reynolds ...
    Northern Pacific Railway Employees in Fargo North Dakota contains lots of information for genealogical/ancestral researchers. It profiles individual employees, i.e. where they lived in Fargo/Moorhead, MN, their job titles, where they came to Fargo from, i.e. Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Canada, Minnesota, or Europe. Most were of German, Swedish, Polish, Prussian, English, Norwegian, Irish, or ... Read more

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  • Stephen Shoemaker

    The Paintings and Their Stories

    by Stephen Shoemaker, Janet Pittard ...
    North Carolina artist Stephen Shoemaker and writer Janet Pittard have teamed up to present a selection of Shoemaker's paintings and drawings and the stories behind them. Known for his dramatic railroad paintings and scenes of life in the Blue Ridge mountains, Shoemaker shares the thought processes involved in creating his artwork, reveals his sources of inspiration (which often include events in ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Signal Boxes and Semaphores

    The Decline

    by Gordon D. Webster ...
    Mechanical signal boxes and semaphore signals are the last vestige of Victorian technology still to be found on Britain’s railways. Still surviving against all the odds in a digital era, only a few hundred ‘boxes’ remain in use out of the 10,000 originally built to control train movements across every inch of the network. Sadly, almost all of them are to be abolished within the next decade and ... Read more

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  • Looking Back At Peaks

    by Kevin Derrick ...
    Series series Looking Back At ...
    This wonderful volume deals with Classes 44, 45 and 46 from their earliest days with the introduction of D1 Scafell Pike in 1959 through to the last few Peaks to survive in everyday service. A fascinating range of archive photography has been used to illustrate our subjects, taking in the myriad nose end variations and livery details; double-heading; night-time views; and some delightful shots of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD