500円 Montez à bord du célèbre train, l’Orient-Express, en partance pour son premier voyage Le 4 octobre 1883, le train le plus luxueux du monde quittait Paris pour Constantinople. Promis à une destinée mythique, l’Orient-Express emmenait pour ce voyage inaugural les plus grands journalistes européens....

1,500円 Extrait : "Le Ier novembre 1876, je quittais (sans doute pour toujours) la maison qui m'avait vu naître. Cruelle ironie du sort, puisque j'avais cru y vivre et y mourir. Mes malheureux parents étaient navrés ; ma mère, surtout, me fit l'observation que je ne devais pas partir le jour de cette fêt...

748円 This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.

748円 This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.

1,192円 George Hudson - the eponymous Railway King - started his career with a stroke of luck, inheriting 〓27,000 (a fortune in 1827) from a distant relative. He invested successfully in the North Midland Railway, then formed his own Midland Railway, raising 〓5 million and bribing MPs along the way. Bu...

2,479円 The Manchester & Leeds Railway was sanctioned by Parliament in 1836 as a railway commencing at Manchester and terminating at Normanton, from where trains would reach Leeds via the North Midland Railway. Although Leeds is only 35 miles from Manchester, the hilly nature of the surrounding terrain m...

1,833円 Packed with rare and unpublished images, Sussex Steam takes the reader on a journey around picturesque Sussex and the steam trains that used to call it home. Taking in what would have been the first route travelled, a number of secondary routes, locomotive sheds and the works in Brighton, these f...

2,156円 Sixties Spotting Days Around the Scottish Region is a photographic album in full colour, depicting the 1960s with coverage of both steam locomotives and the new traction that was taking over during that great period of change on our railways. These nostalgic photographs are supplemented in the ca...

2,156円 This class of AC electric locomotive comprised 100 members, built from 1965 onwards. The first forty locos were built by British Rail at their Doncaster Works, and the other sixty were built by English Electric at their Vulcan Works. They were built for West Coast services, which had been electri...

2,156円 The opportunity to commit crime on the railways began from the day they were being built. The crimes both mirrored the range of those committed outside and existed in a microcosm of their own. It was the work of the various railway company police forces and predecessor forces to investigate and b...

2,156円 This book sets out to illustrate locomotive-hauled passenger stock in the twenty-first century. Whilst the vast majority of regular timetabled services are now in the hands of multiple units, there is a surprising variety of hauled workings still to be seen; in fact loco haulage has seen a small ...

2,156円 1968: The Last Year of Steam is a photographic album in full colour, depicting this important year with month-by-month coverage of over thirty-five different kinds of locomotives as British Railways phased the last steam locomotives out of use. These nostalgic photographs are supplemented in the ...