Railways
Rydon Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-910821-00-8 (ISBN)
Julian Holland is passionate about railways and has expressed this as a photographer, author and creative book director. Julian has written a number of bestselling railway books. Julian lives in Glastonbury in Somerset.
1 Introduction 7
2 Crash! 'A Local Train of Thought' by Siegfried Sassoon 12
3 'A Local Train of Thought' by Siegfried Sassoon 15
4 An Eccentric Railway Empire 16
5 'To a Great Western Broad Gauge Engine and its Stoker' by Horatio Brown 21
6 A Bridge Too Far 22
7 How Rats Ruined a Railway 24
8 Birth and Death of a Railway 26
9 'The Railway Junction' by Walter de la Mare 29
10 Find Your Local Shed Code! 30
11 Battle of the Gauges 34
12 Famous Locomotive Engineers 36
13 'From a Railway Carriage' by Robert Louis Stevenson 37
14 Famous Locomotive Engineers 38
15 Faster and Faster 42
16 British Rail Speed Records 43
17 The Last Main Line 44
18 Famous Locomotive Designers 46
19 Warships and Westerns 48
20 Dr Beeching, I Presume! 52
21 On Shed, 7th April 1963 54
22 Fair Exchange 56
23 Small is Beautiful 60
24 Up in the Clouds 62
25 We Never Closed 64
26 British Standard Gauge Passenger-Carrying Heritage Railways 66
27 120 Into 4 = The Big Four 70
28 4 Into 1 = BR 74
29 Narrow Gauge Adventure 76
30 A Right Royal Railway 80
31 The Dockers' Umbrella 82
32 The Streakers 84
33 'King's Cross Station' by GK Chesterton 87
34 Mr Bradshaw - Friend of the Railway Traveller 88
35 A Quick Snog in the Back Row 90
36 What a Wind-up! 92
37 Island Railways 94
38 'The Send-off' by Wilfred Owen 101
39 A Railway Institution 102
40 Once There Were Only Fields 104
41 Working for 'The Firm' 106
42 What a Bore! 108
43 From Gunboats to Corpses 110
44 Gee up! 112
45 Along Strange Lines 114
46 Cliffhangers 118
47 Smile Please! 120
48 What's in a Name? 124
49 Index 126
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.11.2015 |
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Reihe/Serie | Amazing & Extraordinary Facts |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 178 mm |
Themenwelt | Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schienenfahrzeuge |
ISBN-10 | 1-910821-00-4 / 1910821004 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-910821-00-8 / 9781910821008 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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