Cette série bien-aimée suit les aventures d'une charmante locomotive à vapeur et de ses amis sur l'île de Sodor. À travers des histoires captivantes, les jeunes lecteurs apprennent de précieuses leçons sur le travail d'équipe, l'amitié et l'importance de bien faire son travail. C'est une collection intemporelle d'histoires qui a ravi les enfants pendant des générations.
Mike Heath takes the reader on a photographic journey along the Keighley and Worthvalley railway route. It begins at the BR station in Keighley and climbs through the diverse West Yorkshire landscape to the line's terminus at Oxenhope. The book highlights the Bronte countryside and the affect that the changing seasons have on it.
This book will take you on a photographic journey along the eight mile line of the Great Central Railway. You'll see the collection of locomotives, historical rolling stock and the restored stations. Some of the photographs also catch that 'lucky moment' when two steam trains pass each other at speed.
The North Yorkshire Moors Railway PreservationSociety today operates services along an 18 mileline between the village of Grosmont and themarket town of Pickering, travelling through theheart of the North Yorkshire Moors NationalPark and some of the most dramatic scenery inBritain with its landscape of huge skies above thelargest tract of heather moorland in England andWales. On selected dates these services areextended a further 6 miles along the picturesqueEsk Valley to the historic port ofWhitby.The line is a major tourist attraction carryingaround 300,000 passengers a year and the oldeworlde charm of the line's country stationstogether with the remote unspoilt scenery hasprovided the locations for much film andtelevision work. The hugely popular televisionseries Heartbeat' and the blockbuster HarryPotter' motion pictures being just two examples.Mike Heath has been visiting and photographingthe railway for over fifteen years and herethrough more than 60 new photographs in ahandy pocket-sized format, he captures the truespirit of the line, taking us on a photographicjourney along the route and highlighting thereasons why the railway can rightly boast tobeing the most popular heritage line in thecountry.
Mike Heath takes the reader on a photographic journey along the Welshpool and Llanfair railway route. The book documents the history of the line, the trains that run on it, and looks at the surrounding landscape.