Railways' Strangest Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Railways' Strangest Tales write by Tom Quinn. This book was released on 2018-02-15. Railways' Strangest Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fascinating collection of bizarre but true stories from nearly 200 years of railway history. Right from the very start, when George Stephenson’s famous Rocket knocked over and killed a government minister at the opening of the Liverpool to Manchester line in 1830, the world’s railways have given rise to plenty of intriguing stories. In this fascinating book, revised and updated with a new selection of tales, railway buff Tom Quinn explores the more bizarre side of train travel, featuring weird weather conditions, audacious robberies, hair-raising accidents, vanishing passengers, an infestation of maggots and a mysterious missing mummy. From the dawn of rail travel, when speeds of 15mph were considered dangerous to health and people mistook engines for fire-breathing demons, through the Victorian heyday of royal trains and seaside specials to today’s more prosaic leaves on the line, this whistlestop tour through railways’ long and storied history is the perfect gift for armchair travellers, history fans and trainspotters. Word count: 60,000
Railways' Strangest Journeys
Railways' Strangest Journeys - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Railways' Strangest Journeys write by Tom Quinn. This book was released on 2003-03-27. Railways' Strangest Journeys available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This title is a collection of stories from Europe, India and America which reveal unusual railway journeys across the centuries, including ghost trains, vanishing passengers and trains fitted with homing pigeons instead of a communication cord.
World's Great Railway Journeys
World's Great Railway Journeys - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook World's Great Railway Journeys write by Max Wade-Matthews. This book was released on 1999. World's Great Railway Journeys available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Single Track Obsession
Single Track Obsession - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Single Track Obsession write by Rob Sissons. This book was released on 2008. Single Track Obsession available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Travel by train from Jasper to Prince Rupert, from Jabalpur to Shimla, from Encarnacion to Asuncion, from Alice Springs to Adelaide, from Helsinki to Moscow and many, many more!
Fishing's Strangest Days
Fishing's Strangest Days - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fishing's Strangest Days write by Tom Quinn. This book was released on 2014-02-25. Fishing's Strangest Days available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fishing's Strangest Tales gathers together choice stories and bizarre fishing tales from all over the world. Consider the Oxford scientist who in 1910 discovered the marvellous life-giving properties of brandy to fish who had otherwise gasped their last. Or how about the nine-year-old boy fishing for trout who caught a large mussel – containing no less than forty pearls – and managed to earn more in one day than his father, a farm worker, had earned in the last five years. Fishing's Strangest Days is full of fascinating tales that may sound fishy and unbelievable but will have have you caught hook, line and sinker.
