Menu
Zistiť stav objednávky
Kontaktujte nás
Kniha Steam Trains Colin G Maggs

Steam Trains

The Magnificent History of Britain's Locomotives from Stephenson's Rocket to BR's Evening Star

Autor: Colin G Maggs
Jazyk: Angličtina
Väzba: Brožovaná
Vydavateľ: Amberley Publishing
Dostupnosť: Čaká sa dotlač
Termín neznámy
15.57 €
Most people are under a misapprehension: the Rocket was not the first steam engine. Quite a few were...

Informácie o knihe

Autor
Colin G Maggs
Jazyk
Angličtina
Väzba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydalo
2015
Stránok
272
EAN
9781445650999
ISBN
1445650991
Enbook ID
09281967
Vydavateľ
Amberley Publishing
Hmotnosť
392
Rozmery
234 x 159 x 25

Kompletný popis

Most people are under a misapprehension: the Rocket was not the first steam engine. Quite a few were built before it, but Stephenson's engine was the first successful steam locomotive. Colin Maggs tells the story of the steam engine from pre-Rocket days to British Railways building the Evening Star, the last main-line locomotive, through to the preservation movement and the new-build locomotives of extinct classes such as the Tornado. This is also the story of the rolling stock, the 'train'. The early first-class coaches were based on a stagecoach design, while some second-class coaches had no glass in the windows and passengers wore fine-gauge goggles to avoid cinders in their eyes. Third-class coaches were merely open trucks - after all, why not travel in the open as passengers had done on the outside of a stagecoach? In this comprehensive history, Colin Maggs, one of the country's foremost railway historians, tells of other, perhaps less well-known aspects of the history of steam in Great Britain. The first railway lines, the activities of the early railway companies, the design and manufacture of faster and faster engines and the lives of the men and women who drove the industry. These, and other fascinating stories from the age of steam, are all revealed in this accessible book illustrated with over 150 photographs and period ephemera, many in colour.

Mohlo by vás zaujímať

Man Who Once Played Catch with Nellie Fox

John Manderino
12.73 €

Duelling Stories of the Sixteenth Century From the French of Brantôme

Pierre Bourdeille De Brantôme
21.25 €

Instructions to Vander Bank,: A Sequel to the Advice to the Poets: A Poem, Occasion'd by the Glorious Success of Her Majesty's Arms, Under the Comma

Richard Blackmore
13.41 €

Prostate Cancer

Roger S. Kirby
83.96 €

Biomedical Photonics Handbook

Tuan Vo-Dinh
92.68 €

Medicine Wheel Trilogy

Grandmother Puddingstone
9.59 €

The Anchorite: (Call and Message)

Abba Anthony Rd Curley Th D
10.38 €

Antimonide-Based Composite-Channel HFETs

Heng-Kuang Lin
47.41 €

Introduction to Practical Ore Microscopy

P R Ineson
85.92 €

Zákazníci, ktorí si kúpili túto knihu, kúpili tiež

Rapports Presentes A l'Assemblee Generale

Banque D'Haiti
37.03 €

Hasta que Lo Sepas Todo

JUAN KRUZ IGERABIDE
14.59 €

Voyage d'Une Ignorante Dans Le MIDI de la France Et l'Italie. 1

De Gasparin-V
24.58 €

Appelez la sage-femme

Jennifer Worth
13.81 €

L’Empire des Sciences. Napoléon et ses savants

Sartori
27.82 €

Dictionnaire du Stade Toulousain

Olivier Villepreux
37.42 €

Asedio al corazon

Lexy Timms
2.83 €

Schoner RIECHEN

Joachim Mensing
23.41 €

Der Tag, an dem ich Papa war

Hera Lind
3.22 €