Product Description: Less than 50 years ago, trains were routinely hauled by majestic steam-powered locomotives. These magnificent machines still exercise a powerful hold on our imagination, conjuring up the romance of oldfashioned rail travel and the excitement of human ingenuity pitted against the challenges of narrow passes, tight bends and fearsome gradients...read more

Switzerland is one of those countries where everything works—and this extends to its transport system whose trains, buses and boats purr in seamless harmony.  This guide, fully updated to include the latest route information, including the recent opening of the Lotschberg base tunnel, provides everything a traveller needs to negotiate both the famous landmarks and little-known secrets of this compact country. It describes every railway line, reveals what there is to see from each station, and details the connecting journeys by steamer, postbus, funicular, cableway, bicycle and on foot.

Product Description: The world of the railways weaves a spell over many people. In this engaging book railway expert Anthony Lambert presents some of the best stories. From the early days come tales of financial skulduggery and worries that sparks from locomotives might ignite sheep's fleeces...read more

Product Description: The thought of a tropical island evokes images of people soaking up the sun's rays on a golden sandy beach, with luch palm trees wafting in a warm summer breeze, all set against a cloudless sky that forms an almost perfect line as it meets the ocean at the horizon...read more

Though the heyday of steam has gone, it is still possible to travel on preserved lines, heritage railways and industrial lines where steam traction is used. This book profiles 26 such journeys, ranging from the popular Ffestiniog Railway in northern Wales to the revived national railway of Eritrea and the Changa Manga Forest Railway of Pakistan.

Product Description: This superbly illustrated book features 24 of the most exceptional railway journeys in the world, from the superlative Venice Simplon-Orient Express, which has provided luxury transport across Europe to priviledged travellers since 1883 to the Savannahlander that crosses the hot and dusty track between Cairns and Forsayth in Queensland, Australia...read more

Product Description: This volume presents every aspect of travel in the enchanting country of Switzerland. It is backed up with detailed coverage of chateaux, museums and historic buildings, and includes regional maps and town plans. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A guide to the 10,000 miles of Swiss railways.