The Railways of Scotland, Their Present Position with a glance at their past and a forecast of their future.
Language: English
Published by Adam Gordon, 2012
- Softcover
- New
Seller: Douglas Blades, Ardrossan, United KingdomDouglas Blades
AbeBooks seller since May 11, 2006
Condition: New
£ 4.60
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2012, Adam Gordon, Reprint of the 1890 original. Approximately 12.2cm x 10cm portrait format softback with card covers and block spine.199pp including index with folding map inside back cover. A reprint of a railway classic. A very readable tour of Scotland's railways in the late nineteenth century with amongst other stories, a description of travelling with a cattle train from Berwickshire and East Lothian into Edinburgh and a visit to the mushroom growing business in the Scotland Street tunnel in Edinburgh. If present, view the scans of the contents pages for further information. Condition : New copies., Book weighs 245g. For UK buyer if book weighs more than 2Kg when packed (allow 150g-200g for packing) we will request additional postage. For non UK buyer the threshold is 399g surface mail, 150g airmail. Please don't order unless prepared to pay or ask first. ISBN 9781874422891.
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- Title
- The Railways of Scotland, Their Present Position with a glance at their past and a forecast of their future.
- Author
- ACWORTH, W.M.
- Publisher
- Adam Gordon
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1874422893
- ISBN 13
- 9781874422891
- Seller catalogs
- Railways
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Douglas Blades
Ardrossan, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since May 11, 2006
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Trading since 1978 throughout Scotland at model railway shows and toyfairs. Leading transport specialist, new and secondhand. Transport DVDs sold as well as books and transport magazine backnumbers. Small warehouse packed with books, magazines and DVDs at Unit 9, Hill Street, Ardrossan, KA22 8HE. Visitors welcome by appointment. We are just round the corner from Ardrossan Town railway station (hourly service to and from Glasgow) and if you are going to or from the Arran Ferry you will pass close to the premises,…
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