BRITISH STEAM RAILWAYS de Ross, David - 2005

Hardback. Very Good.

Front pastedown scuffed a few cms and pieces of adhered clear tape a few cms

Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

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Bath: Parragon, 2009. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Covers all the essential events in Steam History" Well Illustrated with Colour and B&W Photographs, Colour Maps and Artworks. Detailed Specification Tables of all the most important Locomotives. 160 Pages, 850g, 10 3/4" Tall. No inscriptions. Very slight edge wear at top of jacket. Not clipped. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

Bath, United Kingdom: Parragon Book Service Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 2005. Hard Cover. 4to 1405454881 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Illudtrated boards. Previous owner's details on ffep. 160 pp. clean and tight. Nothing that came out of Britain's Industrial Revolution matches the power and spectacle of the great steam trains. When Britain pioneered railway transport in the nineteenth century there was speculative talk of passengers having the wind sucked from their lungs at an earth-scorching 30mph, but by 1845 twice that speed was achieved. By the late 1920s express steam locomotives could maintain a speed of 100mph, and in 1936 the celebrated Mallard captured the still unbroken record for a steam engine of 126mph. British Steam Railways is a fascinating history of the technology, enterprise and people behind these magnificent machines, from Richard Trevithick's first cumbersome engine in 1804 to Stephenson's 'Rocket' and on to the golden age of steam in… Leer más

Parragon, 2009. Book. Very Good. hardback. hardback, quarto measuring 11" x 8", a very good clean and unmarked copy in a very slightly rubbed pictorial dust wrapper, illustrated in colour and b&w, 160pp.

Parragon Plus, 2005-07-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 2.1983 in x 26.7796 in x 19.9848 in.

Parragon Plus, 2005-07-01. Hardcover. Good. Book is in good condition.

London: Parragon, 2005. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Thus. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 160 pages, 840g. Pictorial laminated Boards MINT, in a MINT d/w. Illustrated with over 200 colour and b/w photographs, maps and drawings. A history of the technology, enterprise and people behind the steam locomotive..