Details: When their father goes away unexpectedly, Roberta, Peter & Phyllis have to move from London to a cottage in
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Details:
When Father goes away with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter & Phyllis are shattered.

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. ..when the Green Dragon tore shrieking out of the mouth of its dark lair, which was the tunnel, all three children stood on the railing & waved their pocket-handkerchiefs without stopping to think whether they were clean handkerchiefs or the reverse. ...

There is an unfathomable fascination with the romance connected to the construction of great railways.

Yet little is known

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London 1851. With the opening of the Great Exhibition at h&, interest is mounting in the engineering triumphs of the railways, but not everyone feels like celebrating…

In an audacious attack, the London to Birmingham mail train is robbed & derailed, causing many casualties. Planned with military precision, this crime proves a challenge to Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck who fights to untangle a web of murder, blackmail & destruction.

As Colbeck closes in on the criminal masterminds events take an unexpected turn when the beautiful Madeleine, daughter of the injured train driver, becomes a pawn in the criminals’’ game. With time running out, good & evil, new & old, battle against each other. But will the long arm of the law have speed on its side?

Full of historical detail, The Railway detective is an action-packed dip into murky 1850s London.







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During the Second World War Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway, tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio. Emotionally scarred & unable to form normal relationships Lomax suffered for years until, with the help of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, he finally came to terms with what had happened after 50 long years & was able to meet one of his former tormentors. The Railway Man is a story of innocence betrayed, & of survival & courage in the face of horror. This book has 276 pages & is 19.8cm x 12.9cm x 1.9cm. Winner of the Waterstone's Esquire Award for Non-Fiction ...

This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways
- the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank
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The Railway Detective faces his most dangerous adversary yet 1852. Inspector Robert Colbeck & his assistant Sergeant Victor Leeming

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In 1875, a row of tiny cottages stands by the tracks of the newly built York-Doncaster railway... Railwayman Tom Swales, with his wife & five daughters, takes the end cottage. With no room to spare in the loving Swales household, eldest daughter Mary accepts a position as housemaid to the nearby stationmaster. There she battles the daily grime from the passing trains ...

Britains railways have been a vital part of national life for nearly 200 years.

Transforming lives & landscapes, they

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