150円 In "The Railway Builders: A Chronicle of Overland Highways," Oscar Douglas Skelton meticulously details the monumental efforts behind the construction of railway systems that shaped the Canadian landscape. This narrative not only encompasses the technical challenges and triumphs faced by engineer...

1,378円 Over the last two and a half years, Chris Tarrant has travelled, literally, all around the world filming Extreme Railway Journeys for Channel 5. The hugely successful TV series is already being repeated, and broadcast rights have been, and continue to be, picked up in other countries, while it is...

21,878円 This book offers a timely collection of chapters on innovative research and education-focused developments in the vast field of rail transport, including rail operations, management, economics, and sustainable infrastructure. Adding on the tradition of the previous four volumes, here a special em...

1,921円 The genesis of 25kv overhead electrification began in the late 1960s on the West Coast Main Line, the 1980s for the East Anglian Main Line, and the East Coast Main Line in the late 1980s. Development took place in stages culminating in fully electrified lines from London to Scotland on both East ...

18円 This is the fourth book in a series that covers the history of the tram systems of the British Isles post-war. It covers the networks in Wales, the Isle of Man and Ireland.Peter Waller examines the history of the tramways in Ireland, Wales and on the Isle of Man. With three different legislative ...

18円 In this new album from Pen & Sword, transport historian and photographer Jim Blake presents a selection of pictures he took around the country in British steam's final years.British Railways withdrew their last steam engines with almost indecent haste in the mid- to late–1960s, many having seen o...

1,856円 日本自1895年領臺後，著手規劃臺灣島內各項建設，希望使臺灣島內具備一定基礎建設，以利日本政府推行各項政策，其中鐵道建設就是重要的指標之一。我們可以看到日本統治臺灣近五十年的鐵道建設成果，總督府鐵道部下轄的官營鐵道，西部幹線從基隆可達潮州，1921年完工通車的海岸線（海線）鐵路可作為台中線（山線）的輔助...

961円 All aboard! Discover all the foul facts behind the story of trains and railways across the world with history's most horrible headlines: locomotive edition. The master of making history fun, Terry Deary, turns his attention to the tracks. From the puffing pioneers of the British railways, Victori...

6,342円 Empire Builders tells the story of Oris P. and Mantis J. Sweringen, two brothers from Wooster, Ohio, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Although they were born into abject poverty, Oris was an extraordinary visionary who, with the help of his devoted younger brother, amassed a ...

2,784円 Explore 79 of the best rail-trails and other multiuse pathways in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. All across the country, unused railroad corridors have been converted into public multiuse trails. Level and accessible, these paths are ideal for a brisk fitness walk, bike rid...

421円 The railways and tramways of Atlantic Iberia, in the summer of 1963, when the traditional railways had changed little. Fred Matthews has been an enthusiastic rail photographer for 75 years. He is the author of Iberian Rails, volume 1: Catalonia, and Volume 2: Valencia, Meseta, Madrid, as well as ...

650円 Travel Tales: Trains ー Terror on the Rails: Is the next book in line of relatively shorter-take samplers in my True Travel Tales book series. It's a collection of some scary close calls on passenger or freight trains while plying some of the World's most famous railways and barely managing in so...