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All Aboard! - Railroads in Fact and Fiction

A Book of Railway Journeys
Ludovic Kennedy
Nonfiction


Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations
Simon Jenkins
Nonfiction


Cathedrals of Steam: How London’s Great Stations Were Built – And How They Transformed the City
Christian Wolmar
Nonfiction


Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels
Jill Jonnes
Nonfiction


Great Railway Journeys of Europe
Nick Inman and Tim Locke
Nonfiction


The Horseshoe Curve: Sabotage and Subversion in the Railroad City
Dennis P. McIlnay
Nonfiction


Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
Les Standiford
Nonfiction


New York's Original Penn Station: The Rise and Tragic Fall of an American Landmark
Paul M. Kaplan
Nonfiction


Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
Stephen E. Ambrose
Nonfiction


The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China
James M Zimmerman
Nonfiction


The Pennsylvania Railroad: The Long Decline, 1933–1968
Albert J. Churella
Nonfiction


The Pennsylvania Railroad: Volume II, The Age of Limits, 1917-1933
Albert J. Churella
Nonfiction


Philadelphia: A Railroad History
Edward W Duffy
Nonfiction


Travelers, Tracks, and Tycoons: The Railroad in American Legend and Life: From the Barriger Railroad Historical Collection of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association
Nicholas Fry
Nonfiction


Traveling the Pennsylvania Railroad: Photographs of William H. Rau
John C. Van Horne (Editor)
Nonfiction



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Blood on the Tracks
edited and introduced by Martin Edwards
Mystery


Death in the Tunnel
Miles Burton
Mystery


Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect
Benjamin Stevenson
Mystery


The Last Passenger
Charles Finch
Mystery


Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie
Mystery


Obelists En Route
C. Daly King
Mystery


Off Track
Clare Curzon
Mystery


Under the Channel
Gilles Pétel ; translated from the French by Emily Boyce and Jane Aitken
Mystery



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The Circus Train
Amita Parikh
Fiction


The Continental Affair
Christine Mangan
Fiction


Eastbound
Maylis de Kerangal
Fiction


The Masterpiece
Fiona Davis
Fiction


The Paris Express
Emma Donoghue
Fiction


The Passengers on the Hankyu Line
Hiro Arikawa
Fiction


With a Vengeance
Riley Sager
Fiction


The Women on Platform Two
Laura Anthony
Fiction



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Caught on a Train
Starring Peggy Ashcroft and Michael Kitchen
DVD


The Railway Man
Starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman
DVD




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