Computers in Railways XIV Special Contributions (WIT Transactions on the Built Environment, #155)
This volume contains special contributions presented at the 14th International Conference on Railway Engineering Design and Operation (COMPRAIL/14) held in Rome. It is a companion to the Volume containing most of the contributions (Volume 135 of WIT Transactions on the Built Environment) and comprises papers presented orally during the Conference. Encouraging the update and use of advanced systems, the book promotes their general awareness throughout the management, design, manufacture and oper...
The Making of a Great Canadian Railway
by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
North Eastern Electric Stock 1904-2020 (Locomotive Portfolio Diesel and Electric)
by Graeme Gleaves
The north east of England was the cradle of Britain's railways in the 19th Century. It was here George and Robert Stephenson would shape the steam locomotive. Then in the early 20th Century a second transport revolution took place around Newcastle when the suburban lines from the city to the coast were electrified in response to competition from the electric trams. What was created became the blueprint for modern day commuting. This book tells the story behind the creation of that network, the t...
Brunel's Broad Gauge in the Black Country (Woodsetton Monographs, #2)
by Michael Hale
The Stratford and Midland Junction Railway (Library of Railway History)
by J.M. Dunn
Progress on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, Department for Transport
Originally published in 1995 this book provides an authoritative and stimulating account of the issues and problems facing transport planners in the 21st century. The contributors - leading authorities from North America and Europe - put forward a wide range of points from which future technical developments and transport will be approached. They review the ways in which human needs and national expectations can be served by technological developments in the 21st Century.
Tunnelling the Hudson - New York City (Narrow Gauge, #223)
by Norman Drake
Treading on Hallowed Ground: Counterinsurgency Operations in Sacred Spaces
by C Fair and Professor of Asian Studies and Government Sumit Ganguly
Completed in 1860 and spanning more than one hundred miles across rice fields, salt marshes, and seven rivers and creeks, the Charleston & Savannah Railroad was designed to revolutionize the economy of South Carolina's lowcountry by linking key port cities. With the onset of the Civil War, the railroad became an integral part of the Confederacy's military, economic, and communications efforts along the coast and a frequent military objective of Union assaults.The C&S was chartered by a coalition...
Pennine Rails and Trails (RailTrail S.)
by John Morrison and Lydia Speakman