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A railway is a means of transport.

Railways Books

Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69
Fire & Steam: How the Railways Transformed Britain
Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
Blood, Iron and Gold
Belles and Whistles: Five Journeys Through Time on Britain's Trains
A Text Book Of Railway Engineering
Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
The Subterranean Railway
The Christmas Train
British Rail
The Railways: Nation, Network and People
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
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To The Edge Of The World
The Stationmaster's Farewell (The Railway Detective #9)
Mr Briggs' Hat: A Sensational Account of Britain's First Railway Murder
Blood on the Line (The Railway Detective, #8)
The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America

Lists

Last Train to Paradise by Les StandifordThe Southern Railway system by William WebbSouthern Railway by Tom MurrayBuilding a Great Railroad by Glenn HoffmannTen Thousand Miles by Freight Train by Carrot Quinn
Southern Railroads
43 books — 6 voters
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieThe Railway Children by E. NesbitThe Polar Express by Chris Van AllsburgStrangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith4 by Agatha Christie
Tales on Track: Trains in Fiction
146 books — 38 voters

Nothing Like It in the World by Stephen E. AmbroseExploring Britain's Lost Railways by Julian HollandUnderground Overground by Andrew MartinEleven Minutes Late by Matthew EngelFire & Steam by Christian Wolmar
Books about railways
184 books — 24 voters
The Little Engine That Could by Watty PiperThe Polar Express by Chris Van AllsburgTrains by Philip SteeleCurious George Takes a Train by Margret ReyThe Little Red Caboose by Marian Potter
Train Books for Kids
161 books — 7 voters


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Quotes Tagged “Railways”

“ More coal, more smoke, more heat, more steam, more pressure, more speed. The engine raced forward streaming black smoke like a funerary ribbon rippling in the breeze. ”
― Martin R Jackson : Running with Finn McCool
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“ Railways, like Daleks, have difficulties in getting up hills. ”
― Ian Marchant, Parallel Lines: Or, Journeys on the Railway of Dreams
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