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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
Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
A Text Book Of Railway Engineering
British Rail
The Railways: Nation, Network and People
The Subterranean Railway
Belles and Whistles: Five Journeys Through Time on Britain's Trains
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
The Christmas Train
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Most Read This Week

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
48 books — 7 voters
The Girl from the Train by Irma JoubertHousekeeping by Marilynne RobinsonMoon Over Manifest by Clare VanderpoolCatching the Westbound by D.C. HicksThe Imposter Bride by Nancy Richler
Train Tracks
77 books — 28 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
187 books — 24 voters
The Paris Express by Emma DonoghueFaces in the Crowd by Valeria LuiselliOrdinary Time by Cathy RentzenbrinkIn einem Zug by Daniel GlattauerThe Woman in Carriage 3 by Alison James
Inside Trains
18 books — 6 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
A Superior Man by Paul YeeThe Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre BoulleFantasmas del Oriente by Imanol CaneyadaThe Iron Moonhunter (Fifth World Tales) by Kathleen ChangNot in Love by Ali Hazelwood
Chinese and other exploited Railroad Workers in Fiction
18 books — 6 voters


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Quotes Tagged “Railways”

Colson Whitehead
“ I'm what the botanists call a hybrid," he said the first time Cora heard him speak, "A mixture of two different families. In flowers, such a concoction pleases the eye. When that amalgamation takes its shape in flesh and blood, some take great offence. In this room we recognize it for what it is - a new beauty come into the world, and it is in bloom all around us. ...more ”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
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Harmik Vaishnav
“ The train is world in itself, a diminutive form of the culture of the country and its people. ”
― Harmik Vaishnav, Coffee Beans
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