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Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
With two exciting "Thomas & Friends" stories and loads of full-color photographs, this deluxe storybook offers boys ages 3 to 7 hours of fun and adventure. In "Express Coming Through!," Thomas the Tank Engine is asked to pull a train that's way too heavy for him! What now? In "Go, Go, Thomas!," Thomas tries to appear in every photo of a book about Sodor's railroad, causing all sorts of trouble. Uh-oh!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A detailed look at the nineteenth-century steam locomotive engineer and the ups and downs of his career, with numerous photos throughout.
Born in Scotland in 1840, Dugald Drummond had a long career in locomotive and railway engineering, including prominent positions on the Highland; London Brighton & South Coast Railway, North British, and Caledonian Railways, before arriving on the London & South Western Railway in the mid-1890s....
Born in Scotland in 1840, Dugald Drummond had a long career in locomotive and railway engineering, including prominent positions on the Highland; London Brighton & South Coast Railway, North British, and Caledonian Railways, before arriving on the London & South Western Railway in the mid-1890s....
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An inspiring tale from Michael Morpurgo and Michael Foreman celebrating the world's most iconic train, Flying Scotsman, and its greatest fan, a young girl named Iris. Iris knows everything there is to know about Flying Scotsman. Her dad is the famous train's driver, and every year her favourite birthday treat is a trip to see him at work. But each time Flying Scotsman pulls away, Iris wishes more than anything that she could be in the driver's cab,...
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Join Thomas, Gordon, Sir Topham Hatt and their friends for exciting adventures on the Island of Sodor. Meet Cranky the Crane and watch as Thomas and Percy come to his rescue after a destructive storm. Help Sir Topham Hatt celebrate Lady Hatt's birthday party after disaster strikes, and see how Toad realizes that going backwards is really useful!
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
At the beginning of 1967 the writing was clearly on the wall for Southern Steam, with the intention of eliminating it altogether on the 18th June of that year. From the 2nd January, with the Brush type 4s working many main line trains including the Bournemouth Belle, steam was reduced to thirteen departures from Waterloo, three of which were in the early hours.
From the 3rd April this was further reduced to just five day and three night time departures....
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Tour the bumpy track when Thomas delivers a picnic surprise of bubbling lemony treat to everyone! The fun adventures continue when Thomas and Percy play a fun game of hide-and-seek while trying to get all their work done too! Cheer on the Sodor football team with Emily, and make sure you save room for cake because Mr. Bubbles the clown prepared a showstopper of a picnic. lemon-y treat to everyone! Special features included.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
ferroequinologist (noun) Someone who studies the 'Iron Horse' (i.e. trains and locomotives).From the Latin ferrus 'iron' and equine 'horse' + -logist
As the British steam era drew to a close, a young Keith Widdowson set out to travel on as many steam-hauled trains as possible – documenting each journey in his notebooks. In Confessions of a Steam Age Ferroequinologist, he cracks these books open and blows off the dust.
His self-imposed mission,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
An ex-railwayman's recollections of working the footplate on fast express steam trains in the late 1940s and through the '50sFast train fireman Ken Issitt worked on the footplate from the late 1940s to 1960, experiencing firing some of the greatest locomotives from the Flying Scotsman to Coltimore and Blink Bonney. The work was hard and conditions were tough but little did he know at the time that he was experiencing the last years of steam. He would...
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The engines on the Island of Sodor find themselves in some sticky and slippery situations. Thomas and Butch are stuck in a bind when they don't fully listen to directions. Spencer gets lost in the fog but learns he can actually be Spencer the Helpful. Gordon must swallow his pride after dropping the Lion of Sodor in the mucky, muddy river, and Edward shows Charlie there's a time to be really fun and a time to be really useful.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Get ready, get set, go! When the best engines from around the world gather to compete in The Great Railway Show, Thomas is determined to find a way to represent Sodor. But he's left disappointed as Gordon is chosen to be the new "Shooting Star" for The Great Race. With Gordon and the other engines making the journey to compete, something suddenly goes terribly wrong, and Gordon is in danger!
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Excitement spreads across Sodor with the arrival of a new and unusual engine. Worrying they'll be replaced by the fast and modern Hugo; the engines fail to be good friends by not making him feel welcome. When they stop to listen, they realize that Hugo is a very special engine who truly belongs on the rails. Elsewhere things get spooky when the engines see a ghost train and Percy goes on a troll hunt. Skiff takes Sir Topham Hatt on a wild ride in...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A lavishly illustrated celebration of the golden age of aircraft, cars, ships and locomotives from 1900 to 1941 by the author of the bestselling Empire of the Clouds . This dazzling book describes the flourishing of transport and travel, and the engineering that made it possible, in the years before the Second World War. It is a homage to the great vehicles and their mechanisms, their cultural impact and the social change they enabled. James Hamilton-Paterson...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Rail transportation has been part of daily life in Reading since the 1830s. Reading Trains and Trolleys portrays the good old days of the Philadelphia & Reading Railway (reorganized as the Reading Company in 1923), the Schuykill Valley Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Mount Penn Gravity Railroad, the Neversink Mountain Railroad, the Reading City Passenger Railway, and the Reading Traction Company. The Reading Railroad gained widespread recognition...
39) Tootle
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The protagonist is Tootle, a baby locomotive attending train school. Tootle hopes to grow up to be the Flyer on the New York-Chicago route. His schoolwork includes tasks such as stopping at red flags and pulling a dining car without spilling the soup.
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