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Author | : Tom Quinn |
Publisher | : Portico |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2018-02-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1911042971 |
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A fascinating collection of bizarre but true stories from nearly 200 years of railway history. Right from the very start, when George Stephenson’s famous Rocket knocked over and killed a government minister at the opening of the Liverpool to Manchester line in 1830, the world’s railways have given rise to plenty of intriguing stories. In this fascinating book, revised and updated with a new selection of tales, railway buff Tom Quinn explores the more bizarre side of train travel, featuring weird weather conditions, audacious robberies, hair-raising accidents, vanishing passengers, an infestation of maggots and a mysterious missing mummy. From the dawn of rail travel, when speeds of 15mph were considered dangerous to health and people mistook engines for fire-breathing demons, through the Victorian heyday of royal trains and seaside specials to today’s more prosaic leaves on the line, this whistlestop tour through railways’ long and storied history is the perfect gift for armchair travellers, history fans and trainspotters. Word count: 60,000
Author | : Tom Quinn |
Publisher | : Robson Books Limited |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2003-03-27 |
Genre | : Railroad travel |
ISBN | : 9781861056795 |
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This title is a collection of stories from Europe, India and America which reveal unusual railway journeys across the centuries, including ghost trains, vanishing passengers and trains fitted with homing pigeons instead of a communication cord.
Author | : Anthony Lambert |
Publisher | : White Lion Publishing |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2018-11-13 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 178131747X |
Download Lost Railway Journeys from Around the World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From the great cathedral-like railways stations of the steam age to obscure lines built through spectacular landscapes to open up countries before the advent of motorised road transport, this book is a celebration of our lost railway heritage and the lines that can no longer be travelled. Through stunning images, Lost Railway Journeys from Around the World evokes the romance and drama of these journeys, taking the reader as close as they can possibly get to this lost world of dining cars, sleeping cars, station porters and international rail travel. Organised by continent, all of these routes have stories to tell and the lost journeys are captured in the old postcards and posters that accompany photographs drawn from collections and archives across the world.
Author | : Max Wade-Matthews |
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Release | : 1999 |
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Author | : Rob Sissons |
Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
Total Pages | : 445 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1425162398 |
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Travel by train from Jasper to Prince Rupert, from Jabalpur to Shimla, from Encarnacion to Asuncion, from Alice Springs to Adelaide, from Helsinki to Moscow and many, many more!
Author | : Tom Quinn |
Publisher | : Batsford |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2014-02-25 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1849941750 |
Download Fishing's Strangest Days Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Fishing's Strangest Tales gathers together choice stories and bizarre fishing tales from all over the world. Consider the Oxford scientist who in 1910 discovered the marvellous life-giving properties of brandy to fish who had otherwise gasped their last. Or how about the nine-year-old boy fishing for trout who caught a large mussel – containing no less than forty pearls – and managed to earn more in one day than his father, a farm worker, had earned in the last five years. Fishing's Strangest Days is full of fascinating tales that may sound fishy and unbelievable but will have have you caught hook, line and sinker.
Author | : Peter Grego |
Publisher | : Portico |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2013-07-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1909396435 |
Download Cornwall's Strangest Tales Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of Cornwall, or as it is sometimes obscurely referred to, Merry Jack. Though this isn’t the usual side of the county the tourists, travellers and residents see. This is the real Cornwall, the strange and twisted nooks and crannies of the county’s bizarre history – past, present and future. Following on from the bestselling Portico Strangest titles now comes a book devoted to England’s gloriously coastal, yet most haunted, region. Located in the toes of the outstretched legs of Britain’s old man, Cornwall is a county with more strangeness than you can shake a Cornish pasty at. Cornwall is an area of outstanding natural beauty, as well as outstanding strangness – from ye olde tales of plundering pirates to foulish ghosts drinking in local pubs right through to the most famous of all myths – the bizarre beast that forever stalks Bodmin Moor. Spooky.
Author | : Michael Barry |
Publisher | : Portico |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2013-07-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1909396443 |
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Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of Dublin. Though this isn’t the usual side of the city the tourists, travellers and residents see. This is the real Dublin, the strange and twisted nooks and crannies of the city’s bizarre history – past, present and future. Following on from the bestselling Portico Strangest titles now comes a book devoted to one of Ireland’s most beautiful, and popular, cities. Located on the beautiful eastern seaboard, Dublin is a city with more strangeness than you can shake a pint of Guinness at. Home to one million people, the name, strangely, comes from the Irish ‘Dubh Linn’, which means 'Black Pool', but that name was already taken. Dublin’s Strangest Tales is a treasure trove of the hilarious, the odd and the baffling – an alternative travel guide to some of the city’s best-kept secrets. Read on, if you dare! You have been warned.
Author | : Leonora Rustamova |
Publisher | : Portico |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2013-05-15 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1909396338 |
Download Yorkshire's Strangest Tales Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of Yorkshire, or as it is sometimes beautifully referred to, God’s Own County. Though this isn’t the usual side of the county the tourists, travellers and residents see. This is the real Yorkshire, the strange and twisted nooks and crannies of the county’s bizarre history – past, present and future. Following on from the bestselling Strangest Series now comes an eBook devoted to one of England’s most beautiful valley regions. Located in the upper body of Britain’s old man, Yorkshire is a county with more strangeness than you can shake a Dale walking stick at. Home of Robin Hood (he was born in Barnsdale), Guy Fawkes, Dick Turpin and Dracula (Bram Stoker wrote part of the vampire tale in a Whitby hotel!) and, some say, the birthplace of modern civilization even began in Leeds! But you’ll have to read the book to find out why. Yorkshire’s Strangest Tales is a treasure trove of the hilarious, the odd and the baffling – an alternative travel guide to some of the county’s best-kept secrets. Read on, if you dare! You have been warned.
Author | : John Harding |
Publisher | : Portico |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2014-03-28 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1849941785 |
Download Sailing's Strangest Moments Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This fascinating collection of entertaining stories from the seven seas reveals unusual and bizarre sailing trips, vessels and characters, and recounts perilous journeys in freak weather, meetings with pirates and sea monsters, and other legendary tales.