The Lost Joy of Railways will transport you back to the 1950s & 1960s with this nostalgic look at Britains railways in their glory days. Packed with hundreds of never-before-seen photographs journey logs trainspotting notebooks & ephemera The Lost Joy of Railways is a vivid recollection of the whole atmosphere of the railways during that glorious era when we were trainspotters. Divided into the six regions of British railways each chapter documents the favourite stations & engine sheds that were a magnet to the spotter... Western Region
- Top spots include London Paddington Oxford Gloucester & Bristol Temple Meads with a section on the miracles of Barry Scrapyard. Southern Region
- Top spots include London Waterloo Bournemouth Exeter Central & Salisbury with a section on Eastleigh Works which started life in 1891. Eastern Region
- Top Spots include London Liverpool Street London Kings Cross & Doncaster with a section on The Great Escape; only 50 former LNER steam locos have been saved for preservation far fewer than any other big four railway companies. London Midland Region
- Top spots include London Euston London St Pancras Birmingham New Street Liverpool & Carlisle with a section on The Great Escape discussing the preserved locos from the LMS. North Eastern Region
- Top spots include Leeds York Darlington & Newcastle with a section on BR Standard Locos. Scottish Region
- Top spots include Glasgow central Edinburgh Princes Street Edinburgh Waverley & Perth with a section on BR Diesel & Electric Locos. Records of trainspotting trips & the final days of steam are also included along with feature pages on famous railway photographers schedules works scrapyards dastardly diesels & essential clothing equipment & survival kit for spotters. The Lost Joy of Railways is a time machine that will carry you back to those innocent glorious years when railways were still an integral part of our everyday lives.





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The Lost Joy of Railways" will transport you back to the 1950s & 60s reminding you not just of the trains but of personal accounts journey logs timetables & photographs. Divided into six regions of British railways each chapter documents the favourite sections & engine sheds that were a magnet to the spotter. The book also

Includes:: records of trainspotting trips & the final days of steam along with feature pages on famous railway photographers schedules works scrapyards & essential clothing equipment & survival kit for spotters. Each chapter also encompasses a section on the introduction of diesels throughout the system."

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For many of us the history of Africa is at best vague. We might think of Egyptian pyramids legendary queens (of Sheba or Cleopatra) & Zulu warriors. The truth however is one of remarkably diverse creative culturally rich civilisations. In this book which accompanies an 8-part BBC series Gus Casely-Hayford takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of this remarkable continent. We will encounter archaeological sites of staggering beauty that rival the Great Wall of China vast & ancient universities that predate Oxford & Cambridge kingdoms of extraordinary wealth artistic traditions that still inspire artists today great religious sites that surpass the Vatican & a country with more pyramids than Egypt. In recent years new archaeological & anthropological research has opened up the study of African history in ways previously unimaginable. Long-lost kingdoms are suddenly being brought back to life. Civilisations that had faded into myth are revealing their secrets. Using this latest research Gus Casely-Hayford is able to tell the history of Africas major kingdoms in an entirely new colourful & richly-informed way. Accessible & inspiring The Lost Kingdoms of Africa" is both a major addition to our understanding of this oft-overlooked history & a source of genuine delight & wonder." ...

Fact collides with fiction in Will Adams third pulse-pounding adventure featuring the enigmatic Daniel Knox. Twenty years after vanishing without a trace French archaeologist Roland Petitier makes a dramatic reappearance at a major Athens conference promising an astonishing find
- the legendary Golden Fleece. But before he can give his talk hes found dead in a hotel room; & an out-of-control policeman puts Petitiers onetime protege Augustin Pascal into intensive care then later accuses him of Petitiers murder. Only Augustins two closest friends Daniel Knox & Gaille Bonnard can prove his innocence. However rumours of the fleeces rediscovery have spread &. ambitious Georgian oligarch Nergadze is determined to get it first. He sends his psychopathic grandson Mikhail to Athens with orders to bring it back. Mikhail quickly becomes convinced that Dan Knox has it & slowly moves in for the kill!
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LOST LANES will take you on 36 meandering tours of the most beautiful & hidden destinations in southern Engl&. The book
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HE WAS THE KEEPER
- Arno Holmstrand is about to die his life cut short by an organization intent on laying claim to the secrets
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When he left the LAPD Bosch took a file with him: the case of a production assistant murdered four years earlier during a film set robbery. The LAPD thinks the stolen money was used to finance a terrorist training camp. Thoughts of the original murder victim were lost in the federal zeal & when Bosch decides to re-investigate he quickly falls fouls of both his old colleagues & the FBI. When the investigation enables him to meet up with an old friend shadows from his past come back to haunt him... ...

This volume covering the Eastern Region examines many of the fascinating lines in the region including the much mourned Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway rural branches like that to Eye the lines in east Lincolnshire & the Woodhead route with its electrification scheme. ...

A work filled with passion & violence with humanity & inhumanity. It is the story of the Northern Ireland troubles told through the lives of those who have suffered & the deaths which have resulted from the conflict. The authors
- three of them Belfast-born & the fourth an American
- are award-winning journalists. Over a seven-year period they examined every single death which was directly caused by the troubles. Their research has seen them interview witnesses scour published material & draw on a huge range of investigative sources. Lost Lives" traces the origins of the conflict from the firing of the first shots through the carnage of the 1970s & 1980s & up to the republican & loyalist ceasefires & beyond. All the casualties are here: the RUC officer the young soldier the IRA volunteer the loyalist paramilitary the Catholic mother the Protestant worker the new-born baby. Each account is impossible to ignore."

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Lost London" is the story of the city as told through the buildings parks & palaces that are no longer with us. Places like the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens the leading venue for public entertainment in the city for over 200 years or the Palace of Whitehall whose 1500 rooms made it the largest royal residence in Europe until it was destroyed by fire at the end of the 17th century. From bull rings to ice fairs plague pits to molly houses this is a fascinating journey through Londons forgotten past unearthing the extraordinary stories that lie beneath familiar streets as well as shining a light in the citys darkest corners." ...