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The Dublin Railway Murder

Author : Thomas Morris

Publisher : Random House

Page : 364 pages

File Size : 13,41 MB

Release : 2021-11-11

Category : True Crime

ISBN : 147357837X

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A thrilling and perplexing investigation of a true Victorian crime at Dublin railway station. Dublin, November 1856: George Little, the chief cashier of the Broadstone railway terminus, is found dead, lying in a pool of blood beneath his desk. He has been savagely beaten, his head almost severed; there is no sign of a murder weapon, and the office door is locked, apparently from the inside. Thousands of pounds in gold and silver are left untouched at the scene of the crime. Augustus Guy, Ireland's most experienced detective, teams up with Dublin's leading lawyer to investigate the murder. But the mystery defies all explanation, and two celebrated sleuths sent by Scotland Yard soon return to London, baffled. Five suspects are arrested then released, with every step of the salacious case followed by the press, clamouring for answers. But then a local woman comes forward, claiming to know the murderer... 'The Dublin Railway Murder is a true-crime masterclass' Philip Gray, author of Two Storm Wood



The LEGO Trains Book

Author : Holger Matthes

Publisher : No Starch Press

Page : 250 pages

File Size : 38,33 MB

Release : 2017-10-24

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 1593278195

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Learn the model-making process from start to finish, including the best ways to choose scale, wheels, motors, and track layout. Get advice for building steam engines, locomotives, and passenger cars, and discover fresh ideas and inspiration for your own LEGO train designs. Inside you'll find: -A historical tour of LEGO trains -Step-by-step building instructions for models of the German Inter-City Express (ICE), the Swiss “Crocodile,” and a vintage passenger car -Tips for controlling your trains with transformers, receivers, and motors -Advice on advanced building tech­niques like SNOT (studs not on top), micro­striping, creating textures, and making offset connections -Case studies of the design process -Ways to use older LEGO pieces in modern designs For ages 10+



Solutionary Rail

Author : Bill Moyer

Publisher :

Page : 126 pages

File Size : 39,35 MB

Release : 2016-11-04

Category : Transportation

ISBN : 9780998096308

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The Solutionary Rail vision draws unlikely allies together. It provides common cause to workers, farmers, tribes, urban and rural communities via the tracks and corridors that connect them. Part action plan and part manifesto, this book launches a new people-powered campaign to transform the way we use trains and the corridors they travel through.



Nothing Like It In the World

Author : Stephen E. Ambrose

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 468 pages

File Size : 26,44 MB

Release : 2001-11-06

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780743203173

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The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.



Railway Review

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Publisher :

Page : 1150 pages

File Size : 47,88 MB

Release : 1920

Category : Railroads

ISBN :

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The Great Railway Bazaar

Author : Paul Theroux

Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Page : 406 pages

File Size : 41,20 MB

Release : 2006-06-01

Category : Travel

ISBN : 054752515X

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The acclaimed author recounts his epic journey across Europe and Asia in this international bestselling classic of travel literature: “Compulsive reading” (Graham Greene). In 1973, Paul Theroux embarked on a four-month journey by train from the United Kingdom through Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. In The Great Railway Bazaar, he records in vivid detail and penetrating insight the many fascinating incidents, adventures, and encounters of his grand, intercontinental tour. Asia's fabled trains—the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Mandalay Express, the Trans-Siberian Express—are the stars of a journey that takes Theroux on a loop eastbound from London's Victoria Station to Tokyo Central, then back from Japan on the Trans-Siberian. Brimming with Theroux's signature humor and wry observations, this engrossing chronicle is essential reading for both the ardent adventurer and the armchair traveler.



Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo

Author : Tim Parks

Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company

Page : 283 pages

File Size : 25,84 MB

Release : 2014-05-05

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 0393348822

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The bestselling author of "Italian Neighbors" returns with a wry and revealing portrait of Italian life--by riding its trains.



Railway Maps of the World

Author : Mark Ovenden

Publisher : Penguin Books

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 27,22 MB

Release : 2011

Category : Railroads

ISBN : 9780143122401

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"Transit Maps of the World" was an unexpected success and is now a cult favorite. In his irresistible follow-up, Ovenden has produced a mesmerizing compendium of historical and contemporary railway maps and posters from around the world.



Train

Author : Tom Zoellner

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 420 pages

File Size : 42,31 MB

Release : 2014-01-30

Category : Transportation

ISBN : 0698151399

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An epic and revelatory narrative of the most important transportation technology of the modern world In his wide-ranging and entertaining new book, Tom Zoellner—coauthor of the New York Times–bestselling An Ordinary Man—travels the globe to tell the story of the sociological and economic impact of the railway technology that transformed the world—and could very well change it again. From the frigid trans-Siberian railroad to the antiquated Indian Railways to the Japanese-style bullet trains, Zoellner offers a stirring story of this most indispensable form of travel. A masterful narrative history, Train also explores the sleek elegance of railroads and their hypnotizing rhythms, and explains how locomotives became living symbols of sex, death, power, and romance.



The Railway Man

Author : Eric Lomax

Publisher : Charnwood

Page : 352 pages

File Size : 13,74 MB

Release : 2014

Category : Large type books

ISBN : 9781444819854

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During the Second World War, Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway, and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio. Left emotionally scarred, and unable to form relationships, Lomax suffered for years - until, with the help of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, he came to terms with what had happened. Almost 50 years after the war his life was changed by the discovery that his interrogator, the Japanese interpreter, was still alive; their reconciliation is the culmination of this extraordinary story.