Real Railway Tales

Author: Geoff Body
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750957026
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 237

Book Description
Running a railway is a complex business, constantly throwing up drama, misadventure and the unexpected. Geoff Body and Bill Parker have collated a rich selection of railwaymen's memories and anecdotes to create an enjoyable book of escapades and mishaps, illustrating the daily obstacles faced on the railways, from handling the new Eurostar to train catering, nights on the Tay Bridge to rail 'traffic cops', and from mystery derailments to track subsidence. However interesting the infrastructure of the large and varied railway business may be, the real heart of this great industry lies in its people, the complex jobs they occupy and the dedicated way in which they carry them out.

The Goodnight Train

Author: June Sobel
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547769334
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
All aboard! The sun is down...the Goodnight Train is leaving town! Join the many parents and caregivers who enjoy reading The Goodnight Train again and again and have responded with thousands of 5-star reviews. This is a fun and effective bedtime book that both adults and kids love. Roll that corner, rock that curve, and soar past mermaids, leaping sheep, and even ice-cream clouds... With soothing, lyrical words and magical illustrations, this picture book presents a nighttime fantasy that's guaranteed to make even the most resistant sleeper snuggle up tight. Plus don't miss the companion books: Goodnight Train Rolls On and Santa and the Goodnight Train!

Amazing and Curious Railway Tales

Author: Colin G. Maggs
Publisher: 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.

Railway Jack

Author: KT Johnston
Publisher: Capstone Editions
ISBN: 1684460883
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41

Book Description
Jim was a South African railway inspector in the late 1800s who lost his legs in an accident while at work. Unable to perform all his tasks with his disability but desperate to keep his job, Jim discovered a brilliant solution, a baboon named Jack. Jim trained Jack to help him both at home and at the depot. But when the railway authorities and the public discovered a monkey on the job, Jack and Jim had to work together to convince everyone that they made a great team. This inspiring true story celebrates the history of service animals and a devoted friendship.

Magic Train Ride

Author: Sally Crabtree
Publisher: Barefoot Books
ISBN: 9781905236916
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
A ticket on the Magic Train takes the reader from outer space to underwater to a land of cakes.

A Train Goes Clickety-Clack

Author: Jonathan London
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805079722
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
Easy-to-read, rhyming text describes the sounds of, and uses for, different kinds of trains.

Thrilling Stories of the Railway

Author: Victor L. Whitechurch
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781544186306
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158

Book Description
Victor L. Whitechurch was an English writer and a Church of England clergyman. Whitechurch's most famous work is Thrilling Stories of the Railway which feature the famous vegitarian detective Thorpe Hazell.

All Aboard! True Train Tales

Author: Pauline Deeves
Publisher: National Library of Australia
ISBN: 064227939X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 122

Book Description
"I come from a railway family. My dad drives trains, my grandpa was an engine driver and so was his father ..." Jack loves visiting Grandpa in his old train carriage. He loves helping him in the train museum. And he loves hearing his stories about trains and railways. From runaway engines to people-powered carriages, train-robbing bushrangers and lifesaving pointsmen, Grandpa always has a tale to pass the time. Best of all, every one of them is true. Join Jack and his Grandpa as they journey through Australian railway history - and try to save the town's precious train museum. Budding young train enthusiasts will love poring over the historic photos and facts and figures at the end of each chapter, and testing their knowledge in the 'Train Your Brain' quizzes. Ages 7+

THE PENGUIN BOOK OF INDIAN RAILWAY STORIES

Author: Ruskin Bond
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184754604
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249

Book Description
The stories in this collection capture the essence of the Indian Railways - from the small-town station, at the time of the Raj, to the present day big-city station bursting at the seams. The teening and varied life of the Indian Railway station and its environs have fascinated writers from Jules Verne in the 1870s to more recently Satyajit Ray, R.K. Laxman and more modern writers. In this anthology, one of India's best-known writers makes a selection of greattest railway stories the subcontinent has produced. Julese Verne Rudyard Kipling Flora Annie Steel Hon. J.W. Best Jim Corbett Khushwant Singh Ruskin Bond Manoj Das Intizar Husain Satyajit Ray Bill Aitkin R.K. Laxman Victor Banerjee Manojit Mitra.

Haunted Rails

Author: Matthew L. Swayne
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 0738761516
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 158

Book Description
50 chilling true stories of haunted trains and ghostly workers from the steam locomotive era to the modern day Discover dozens of hauntings on railroads in 19 US states as well as in Canada and the UK, including the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line, Nickel Plate Road, Pennsylvania Railroad, and many more. Haunted Rails tells the tale of a possessed caboose on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and a Civil War–era rebel ghost train; museum hauntings at the Georgia State Railroad Museum in Savannah and the Railroaders Memorial Museum in Altoona, Pennsylvania; apparitions at Vancouver's Canadian Pacific Waterfront Station and Nashville's Union Station; and the haunted presidential trains of Abraham Lincoln and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Filled with ghost trains, spectral switchmen, and frightening facts, Haunted Rails is a spine-tingling ride to the other side that you don't want to miss. All aboard!