This book tells how Henry meets an elephant & James spins round like a top how the Fat Controller deals with the bigger engines who are Getting Above Themselves & being troublesome & how a new engine called Percy comes to the rescue by running away. ...

This beautiful anniversary edition

Includes:: twenty-six of the Rev. W. Awdry's classic books in one volume.

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Yorkshire 1855. When Colonel Aubrey Tarleton walks into the path of a speeding train he is crushed to death on the track. The famous Railway Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck is immediately put on the case to determine why such a well-respected man would have resorted to suicide. Tarleton's wife had recently gone missing but was the colonel responsible for her disappearance? It's up to Colbeck & his trusty sergeant Victor Leeming to uncover the truth. ...

A nostalgic look back at the top spots for trainspotters in the 1950s & 60s. A wealth of memories for those once & always train enthusiasts who can remember the excitement of close encounters with steam & speed tracks & trains engines & engineers. Divided into the six British railway regions each chapter documents the favourite stations & engine sheds that were a magnet to the spotter. An evocative look at the golden age of British railways in the post-war years this book revisits the bestselling The Lost Joy of Railways with the addition of new photographs personal note book pages & other ephemera. A perfect gift for train spotters old & young. ...

The Railway Detective faces his most dangerous adversary yet. It is 1852 & Inspector Robert Colbeck & his assistant Sergeant Victor Leeming are faced with their most complex & difficult case to date. As a train speeds over the Sankey Viaduct a man is hurled from a carriage & plummets into the canal below. It later transpires that he has been stabbed to death. With no papers by which to identify the man the detectives' investigation is hampered from the start. Suspecting that the victim may have come from continental Europe Colbeck & Leeming take the case to France where a new railway is being built by a British contractor. But in a new country the detectives face new problems. Anti-British feeling is rife & Colbeck & Leeming must put their own lives in danger to pick up the murderer's trail. This is the third in the acclaimed Railway Detective" series " The Railway Viaduct" is an absorbing mystery that will keep you guessing till the very end." ...

1975 was the year in which Margaret Thatcher defeated Edward Heath to become leader of the Conservative Party Charlie Chaplin was knighted by the Queen & the Vietnam War ended with the fall of Saigon. On the railways two major accidents at Moorgate & Nuneaton resulted in considerable loss of life & the prototype High Speed Train reached speeds in excess of 150mph on the London to Bristol main line. ...

The strategic importance of railways was recognized almost from the beginning of their development but it was not until the end of the nineteenth century that their real value was appreciated by the military. In both the First & Second World Wars railways were crucial in the transportation of men munitions & coal whilst on the Continent British forces operated railways to support the war effort. The heroic story of railways at war was confirmed in the months before & after the D Day landings in 1944 when thousands of trains were run to support the Allied invasion cementing their role as the fourth service during the Second World War. Here Tim Bryan provides an authoritative & fully illustrated guide to the railways role in Britains war efforts. ...

Although dominated by the lines built for & inherited by the Great Eastern Railway East Anglia was also the preserve of one of the country's most important joint railways the Midland & Great Northern; as well as a number of minor railways such as the Mid-Suffolk & the Southwold. The extreme south of the area along the Essex Coast the London Tilbury & Southend Railway later a subsidiary of the Midland Railway was a significant operator. For a variety of reasons including electrification of the suburban lines out of Liverpool Street & closure of virtually the entire M&GN system in 1959 East Anglia was one of the first parts of BR to see steam eliminated with the last vestiges being withdrawn in the early 1960s. Colour views of steam operation in the area particularly unpublished views are therefore; less common than on those areas & regions that retained steam for longer. This book portrays the evolution of railway operation in East Anglia from the Modernisation Plan of 1995 through to the mid-1970s. It encompasses the gradual elimination of steam the closure of many of the rural branches & secondary routes the introduction (and withdrawal) of the railbuses & the arrival of the diesel-electric classes. The locations illustrated are: Liverpool Street Stratford Cambridge Romford Colchester Ipswich Norwich & Peterborough. ...

Published annually for over 30 years Railways Restored is regarded as the Bible by the railway preservation movement & is both well received by reviewers & readers. The book is fully revised to reflect the changes new schemes & occasional closures along with listings of locomotives on site. This new & fully updated volume incorporates a list of major events planned for 2012 along with a vast amount of information useful to visitors to over 200 railway heritage sites. This is a must have for any rail enthusiasts collection. ...

This annually published guide ' Railways Restored' is regarded as the ' Bible' by the railway preservation movement. It is a guide to the major heritage railways railway museums & preservation centres in the British Isles. Information for visitors is set out in tabular form for easy reference &

Includes:: a locomotive & rolling stock stocklist for most centres. The book is fully revised to reflect the changes for 2013 including new schemes & occasional closures along with the transfer of locomotives & the entry (and loss) of locomotives to & from preservation.

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