The Train Book (The Definitive Visual History) by Dorling Kindersley
60.00 NZD
Category: Rail | Series: The Definitive Visual History
Definitive visual history and glorious celebration of all things train and trackThe Train Booktraces the history and role of trains from the first steam engines to diesel engines and then to today's high-speed bullet trains. You'll take a journey through the most important trains of each period and see ...Show more
Early Japanese Railways 1853-1914: Engineering Triumphs That Transformed Meiji-Era Japan by Dan Free
59.99 NZD
Category: Rail
"Early Japanese Railways 1853-1914" is a cultural and engineering history of railway building in Japan during the Meiji era. The importance of early railways in the industrialization of the United States and Europe is a fact all of us are familiar with. To witness the amazing parallel development of the ...Show more
Stop the Train! I want to get on: Rediscovering New Zealand Railway Journeys by Graham Hutchins
49.99 NZD
Category: Rail
Graham Hutchins fell in love with trains at an early age. Living in the railway town of Te Kuiti, he often gazed on the steaming monsters as they thundered through the King Country. Before long train travel became more than a pastime, more than a fascination: he was hooked. In his new book he recounts a ...Show more
The World's Most Spectacular Railway Journeys by Brian Solomon
49.99 NZD
Category: Rail
Each journey is accompanied by a route map and is described in terms of the technical challenges of the construction of the track as well as the stunning views to be seen while travelling on the trains. Some of the railway journeys featured include the Harz narrow-gauge railway in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany ...Show more
Steam in Pictures by TOYNE, JESSICA
14.99 NZD
Category: Rail
The romance with the age of Steam and the Steam locomotives that revolutionised industry, travel and even holidays in the latter part of the 19th century, is all contained within this superbly illustrated publication. From the Golden Age of Steam through to the rise of preserved railways that have seen ...Show more
Fifty Railways That Changed the Course of History by Bill Laws
39.99 NZD
Category: Rail
Railways are much more than just a mode of transport and their impact on the past 200 years of history has been profound. Railways have brought freedom of movement to the masses and been the agents of social change. They have fostered industrial and economic growth, they have been used to mobilise armie ...Show more
The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built and How it Changed the City Forever by Christian Wolmar
29.99 NZD
Category: Rail
Since the Victorian era, London's Underground has had played a vital role in the daily life of generations of Londoners. In The Subterranean Railway, Christian Wolmar celebrates the vision and determination of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made the world's first, and still the largest, underground ...Show more
British Railways in the 1950s and '60s by Greg Morse
22.99 NZD
Category: Rail | Series: Shire Library
As Britain moved from austerity to prosperity in the 1950s and 1960s, it became clear that British Railways needed to modernise its equipment and rationalise its network if it was to hold its own in the face of growing competition from road and air transport. After attempting to maintain pre-war network ...Show more
Giants of Steam: The Great Men and Machines of Railways' Golden Age by Jonathan Glancey
49.99 NZD
Category: Rail
Jonathan Glancey is a lifelong steam enthusiast who has oiled, fired and driven, as well as watched and listened to, steam locomotives around the world. In Giants of Steam, he turns his enthusiastic and knowledgeable attention to the thrilling story of the last, and greatest, generation of steam railway ...Show more
Engines of War: How Wars Were Won and Lost on the Railways by Christian Wolmar
29.99 NZD
Category: Rail
Engines of War tells the dramatic story of how the railways revolutionized the nature of warfare, ushering in an age of industrialized conflict in which wars were fought on a previously unimaginable scale. From the moment of its first appearance, the 'iron road' not only rendered armies more mobile, but ...Show more
The Great Railway Revolution: The Epic Story of the American Railroad by Christian Wolmar
59.99 NZD
Category: Rail
In the 1830s, The United States underwent a second revolution. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line, the first American railroad, set in motion a process which, by the end of the century, would enmesh the vast country in a latticework of railroad lines, small-town stations and magisterial termin ...Show more
The Model Railroader's Guide to Diesel Locomotives by Jeff Wilson
35.99 NZD
Category: Rail | Series: Model Railroader
Published as a Trains magazine special edition, no. 4, 2008.