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The Best Train Journeys in the World includes more than 40 train journeys that will appeal to railroad enthusiasts as well as armchair travelers! Featuring fascinating destinations and routes, each journey provides unusual or unique elements of the train, scenic images, historical and technical notes, a map of the route and practical tips and information.

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A popular history of late 19th and early 20th century railways as they blasted their way into southeastern British Columbia.

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This book is the perfect starting point for anyone interested in this fascinating period of U.S. history.

After a historical overview that opens the book, railroad historian Augustus Veenendaal explores the technology that made the railroads possible and the innovations in financing that got them built.

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This insightful new book calls for a radical rethink of how we view the railways and explains the problems we face and how to fix them. Haines-Doran asks: What if the railways were seen as an indispensable feature of the national economy, a social good that needs to be supported

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London is the supreme railway city. In 1900 it had fourteen railway termini, more than any other city in the world. This book provides the history of the principal termini, featuring key aspects of architectural design and engineering and also highlights anecdotes, myths, and curiosities about the stations' social and cultural history.

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"Early Railways: 1569-1830".

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Britains favourite steeplejack and industrial enthusiastic, the late Fred Dibnah, takes us back to the 18th century when the invention of the steam engine gave an enormous impetus to the development of machinery of all types.

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Come aboard for the ride with Swampy and his larrikin-spirited railroad pioneers as you travel into Australia's wonderful and extraordinary railroading past.

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Narrow gauge railways, so well suited to difficult, mountainous terrain, were built in many of the UK's most scenic locations. This title offers an introduction to a corner of British railway history.

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From the most luxurious and historic - aboard the Orient Express - to the most futuristic - on the driverless trains of London's Docklands Light Railway - here is a unique travel companion celebrating the treasures of our railway heritage from one of Britain's most knowledgeable railway writers.

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This book describes the southern Republicans' post- Civil War railroad aid program--the central element of the Gospel of Prosperity" designed to reestablish a vigorous economy in the devastated South. Conceding that race and Unionism were basic issues, Mark W. Summers explores a neglected facet of the postwar era: the attempt to build a new South a

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Britain's rail network is now among the safest in the world, but the journey that brought it to that point has been long and eventful. Early incidents like the felling of William Huskisson MP by Stephenson's Rocket (1830) showed how new ideas could bring new dangers.

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The great arched train sheds of Victorian Britain are often seen as the nineteenth-century equivalent of medieval cathedrals: once specific railway buildings became necessary around 1830 British architects seized the opportunity with both hands, designing some of the great buildings of their age. This book tells the story of railway architecture.

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Railway workshops began in the north of England as small engineering concerns building the engines that powered early railways such as the Stockton and Darlington. In this illustrated introduction, the author explores the development, heyday and decline of British railway workshops, and examines their legacy.

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The strategic importance of railways was recognized almost from the beginning of their development, but it was not until the end of the nineteenth century that their real value was appreciated by the military. This title provides an illustrated guide to the railway's role in Britain's war efforts.

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George and Robert Stephenson's Rocket, is an enduring silhouette in railway history. Rocket was built to take part in The Rainhill Trials, a competition to find a locomotive design to pull trains on the world's first passenger line, the Liverpool and Manchester. The trials caught the public's imagination and its victor, Rocket, became a sensation.