Author: Colin MaggsPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445652668
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
A remarkable compendium of oddities, curiosities and little-known facts about Britain's railways.
Amazing and Curious Railway Tales
Author: Colin G. MaggsPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750997818
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Who won in a race between a train and a pigeon? How can you warn bats to leave a railway tunnel? Before the era of the car, which railway company carried the most prisoners? Colin G. Maggs has collected all of these answers – and more! – in Amazing and Curious Railway Tales, a compendium of stories, curiosities and little-known facts about Britain's railways.
Author: Colin Maggs
Author: Colin MaggsAlong Different Lines
Author: Geoff BodyPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752490915
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Running a railway is a complex business. However organised it is, there will always be surprises: often hilarious, frequently unexpected, but sometimes serious. Along Different Lines includes such bizarre 'everyday' events as coping with hurricanes, rogue locomotives and runaway wagons; PR successes and otherwise; the Brighton Belle, Flying Scotsman and Mallard; training-course capers; a wino invasion; trackside antics; the Eurostar backdrop; the birth of a prison; and royal and other special occasions. Expert authors Geoff Body and Bill Parker lovingly compiled this entertaining collection in which railway professionals recall notable incidents from across their careers. This illustrated compilation provides an enjoyable look back at life on the railways.
Death, Dynamite and Disaster
Author: Rosa MathesonPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750957018
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
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 burial grounds for London's dead, leading to the 'Necropolis Railway', the gruesome necessity of digging up the dead to accommodate the railways and how the discovery of dynamite gave rise to the 'Dynamite Wars' on the London Underground in the 1880s and 1890s. Join Rosa as she treads carefully through the fascinating gruesome history of Britain's railways.
Britain's Railways in Colour
Author: Colin G. Maggs MBEPublisher: Haynes Publishing UK
ISBN: 9781844256501
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book, covering the final years of steam on Britain’s railways, presents a wonderful array of over 200 color photographs, many of them previously unpublished. All the imagery is reproduced from original transparencies that have remained carefully preserved away from daylight since the day they were taken, so the original vividness of color remains – a rare quality. This book will delight today’s railway enthusiasts who are looking for new material.
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