Buy this book on-line RANSOME-WALLIS, P: : TRAIN FERRIES OF WESTERN EUROPELONDON.IAN ALLAN,1968. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Dw/dj,present but
tatty - no better than good - with loss,tears, chips,stains etc.,etc.,only added/kept for completeness.] Pencilled owner name to top of ffe,no price-clip to dw/dj.Publisher's sharp-cornered, bright,clean,original dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and lightly,
sporadically foxed/spotted free endpapers,rear endpapers considerably brighter and cleaner and generally foxing-free.Shelf-wear to lower edges and corners and some minimal bumping with reciprocal rubbing to both head+foot of spine/ backstrip and the book is slightly cocked. Contents bright,tight and clean.Described hard - but fairly and honestly - looks better than it sounds or reads.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,v-ixpp+1 -289pp [paginated] includes contents list/table, author preface,9 chapters,profuse contemporary b/w photographs,b/w plans,diagrams and tables throughout the text and the book,
acknowledgements,a bibliography,an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,b/w contemporary photographic frntis (Italian Railways train ferry m.s. GENNARGENTU),
publisher's advert for author's other works/ titles verso of title page.
From the earliest days of railways,engineers have been faced with the problem of crossing wide stretches of water in order to establish direct rail communications between places of importance.In many parts of the world the solution has been to "take the trains to sea" on a "floating bridge" and so,train ferry services have been evolved.
In the past,very little has been written about this fascinating subject and books about train ferries are very few.This book,by a well-known author P. Ransome-Wallis,is therefore of great interest,especially as it appears at a time when so much change and progress is taking place in all forms of transport (then 1968).The author describes the history and present (then 1968) operation of the train ferries in our own part of the world,Western Europe and many of the services dealt with are familiar to thousands of British Tourists.The book will appeal,not only to those who make a special study of railways
and ships,but also to those who take an intelligent interest in travel.
Special care has been given to the illustration and there are nearly 250 b/w photographs in the book as well as maps, plans,diagrams.
'Train Ferries of Western Europe' does much to fill a wide gap in the literature of modern transport.
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