Anglo Scottish Sleepers

Author : David Meara
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445672332
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anglo-Scottish Sleepers written by David Meara and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, illustrated throughout, David Meara tells the fascinating story of hundred years of Scottish sleeper services.

Author : Dave Peel
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445641747
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Starlight Specials written by Dave Peel and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at the special Starlight Express overnight train service between London and Glasgow/Edinburgh

Author : David Tucker
Publisher : The Crowood Press
ISBN 13 : 1785007939
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scottish Highland Railways written by David Tucker and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scottish Highland Railways describes eight great journeys by rail through northern Scotland, detailing the history of the lines while travelling along their modern-day routes. In addition, the landscapes, regional history, stations and services available are all described. With over 100 present-day and archive photographs and maps, this book provides the histories of the railways of the east coast, the Grampian region, the highland main line and the Far North, West Highland and Oban, Mallaig and Kyle of Lochalsh lines. A railway company 'family tree' is given and a timeline documenting the many mergers and changes over time. The recent history of these railways in the 20th and 21st centuries is given along with a list of operational stations in 2020 together with passenger usage statistics. There are also details of rail organizations and regulations in Scotland.

Author : Gordon D. Webster
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445689227
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Renewing Britain's Railways: Scotland written by Gordon D. Webster and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gordon Webster examines, in this highly illustrated book, the changes that have been seen on Scotland's railways.

Author : Keith Widdowson
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750993456
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confessions of A Steam-Age Ferroequinologist written by Keith Widdowson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ferroequinologist (noun) Someone who studies the 'Iron Horse' (i.e. trains and locomotives). From the Latin ferrus 'iron' and equine 'horse' + -logist As the British steam era drew to a close, a young Keith Widdowson set out to travel on as many steam-hauled trains as possible – documenting each journey in his notebooks. In Confessions of a Steam Age Ferroequinologist, he cracks these books open and blows off the dust. His self-imposed mission, that of riding behind as many Iron Horses as possible prior to their premature annihilation, led to hours of nocturnal travels, extended periods of inactivity in station waiting rooms, missed connections and fatigue. However, any downsides of his quest were compensated by the camaraderie found amongst a group of like-minded colleagues who congregated on such trains. This is a book that no self-respecting ferroequinologist should be without.

Author : Andrew Martin
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1782832122
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Night Trains written by Andrew Martin and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their private sleeping compartments, gilded dining cars, champagne bars and wealthy travellers. Authors from Agatha Christie to Graham Greene have used night trains to tell tales of romance, intrigue and decadence against a rolling background of dramatic landscapes. The reality could often be as thrilling: early British travellers on the Orient Express were advised to carry a revolver (as well as a teapot). In Night Trains, Andrew Martin attempts to relive the golden age of the great European sleeper trains by using their modern-day equivalents. This is no simple matter. The night trains have fallen on hard times, and the services are disappearing one by one. But if the Orient Express experience can only be recreated by taking three separate sleepers, the intriguing characters and exotic atmospheres have survived. Whether the backdrop is 3am at a Turkish customs post, the sun rising over the Riviera, or the constant twilight of a Norwegian summer night, Martin rediscovers the pleasures of a continent connected by rail. By tracing the history of the sleeper trains, he reveals much of the recent history of Europe itself. The original sleepers helped break down national barriers and unify the continent. Martin uncovers modern instances of European unity - and otherwise - as he traverses the continent during 'interesting times', with Brexit looming. Against this tumultuous backdrop, he experiences his own smaller dramas, as he fails to find crucial connecting stations, ponders the mystery of the compartment dog, and becomes embroiled in his very own night train whodunit.

Author : Andrew Martin
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1782830251
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Belles and Whistles written by Andrew Martin and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the heroic days of rail travel, you could dine on kippers and champagne aboard the Brighton Belle; smoke a post-prandial cigar as the Golden Arrow closed in on Paris, or be shaved by the Flying Scotsman's on-board barber. Everyone from schoolboys to socialites knew of these glamorous 'named trains' and aspired to ride aboard them. In Belles and Whistles, Andrew Martin recreates these famous train journeys by travelling aboard their nearest modern day equivalents. Sometimes their names have survived, even if only as a footnote on a timetable leaflet, but what has usually - if not always - disappeared is the extravagance and luxury. As Martin explains how we got from there to here, evocations of the Golden Age contrast with the starker modern reality: from monogrammed cutlery to stirring sticks, from silence on trains to tannoy announcements, from compartments to airline seating. For those who wonder whatever happened to porters, dining cars, mellow lighting, timetables, luggage in advance, trunk murders, the answers are all here. Martin's five journeys add up to an idiosyncratic history of Britain's railways, combining humour, historical anecdote and reportage from the present and romantic evocations of the past.

Author : Hugh Longworth
Publisher : Strange Chemistry
ISBN 13 : 9780860936503
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book BR Mark 1 and Mark 2 Coaching Stock written by Hugh Longworth and published by Strange Chemistry. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, number-by-number record of each type of Mark 1 and Mark 2 coach operated by British Railways from 1951 onwards.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1076 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Author : Arnie Furniss
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445669587
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rail Rover: Scotland in the 1970s and 1980s written by Arnie Furniss and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arnie Furniss takes the reader on a nostalgic roving tour of Scotland's railways in the 1970s and 1980s.