Author: Tom Quinn
Publisher: Batsford
ISBN: 1849941793
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 229
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A fascinating collection of entertaining stories from as far afield as Europe, Indian and America revealing unusual railway journeys across the centuries, including ghost trains, vanishing passengers and trains fitted with homing pigeons instead of a communication cord! From eccentric lords, who transferred their carriages complete with horses and footmen onto the train, to drivers who stole garden fencing to keep up a good head of steam. 'Railways Strangest Journeys' takes you from the dawn of railway travel when speeds of 15 mph were considered blasphemous and damaging to one''s internal organs through the Victorian heyday of Royal Trains and seaside specials, right up to the present day.
Author: Tom Quinn
Publisher: Portico
ISBN: 1911042971
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
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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
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Category : Railroad stories
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Author: Tilbury TRAMP (Queen's Messenger, pseud. [i.e. Charles James Lever.])
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Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Author: John Robert Day
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Author: Richard Cronin
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781514252482
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Languages : en
Pages : 170
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A SECOND EDITION: More history at a more affordable price! America's Paradise disintegrated over the winter of 1894-95! Florida's Great Freeze of that season destroyed not only the State's record-setting orange crop, it wiped out as well all the ambitious dreams of many of the wealthiest individuals in the world. Learn of their stories as you journey aboard ORANGE BELT RAILWAY with two of America's renowned railroaders. Racing along at a top speed of nearly 6 mph, meet the men and women, dreamers who risked it all during the 1880's in to develop the wilderness of Orange County's western corridor. With stops at Sylvan Lake; Paola; Island Lake; Glen Ethel; Palm Springs; Forest City; Toronto; Lakeville; Clarcona; Crown Point; Winter Garden and Oakland, you will experience a history of this region never before told. "Multitudes," said resident Benjamin M. Robinson of the freeze, "abandoned their groves and homes, in some cases leaving tables set and beds unmade, and went away." CitrusLAND: Ghost Towns & Phantom Trains is their story!
Author: Byron Babbish
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781492224082
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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A compilation of stories gleaned from a lifetime of watching, chasing, photographing and riding trains. The twenty-two chapters cover the author's lifetime affliction with "Train Madness," the state of mind where everything in life revolves around trains: From his first memories of trains, fear of conductors, photographing trains (and destroying cameras in the process), train rides (both legitimate and not-so-legitimate), searching out obscure rail lines and locomotives, encounters with railroad employees and witnessing unusual railroad events. All of the stories are funny. Many of the stories are hard to believe (thus the reason for many of the photographs). The book conveys one person's life long love of trains that can only be described as Train Madness.
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Category : Railroad stories
Languages : en
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In this collection, there are creative stories such as Two little trains by Margaret Wise Brown, and The animals' train ride by Miriam Clark Potter; there are also true train stories such as A race between an engine and a horsecar, and The DeWitt Clinton; readers will find some historical facts about trains in the end of the book, such as The Flying Scotsman, and The Darjeerling-Himalaya Railway.
Author: Irv Ott
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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