Author: Jacky FlemingPublisher:
ISBN: 9780140159349
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Be a Bloody Train Driver
Author: Jacky FlemingPublisher:
ISBN: 9780140159349
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
I'm The Train Driver
Author: Oxford Children's BooksPublisher: Oxford University Press - Children
ISBN: 0192780824
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Today you're the train driver! Your job is to take the family into the city. Let's go! Enter a world of imaginative play with this fun and immersive insight into the role of a train driver. Children will love using their imagination to take the driver's seat and pretend to use the train's controls to start the engine, open the doors at the station, and switch on the lights in a tunnel! This book puts the reader in charge, to build self-confidence and encourage following instructions, problem solving, and teamwork. The narrative is embedded with early learning skills such as recognition of colours, shapes, and numbers. This makes it perfect to share with children as a fun way to practise these key skills, while spotting their favourite vehicles and making the sound effects. The story ends with a sense of achievement as the passengers are safely delivered to the city.
Train Lord
Author: Oliver MolPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241525098
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
The astonishing true story of trust, pain, becoming lost, and finding a way back to yourself despite it all 'An intimate preservation of a moment in time, full of personality' THE TIMES __________ Life is beautiful - even in the dark . . . Oliver Mol was happily drifting through his twenties when the migraine exploded in his head. Suddenly, he could barely function. He felt marooned. Nothing helped. Yet he was desperate to save himself. Then he found the trains. The job of train guard has intense moments of strict, regimented activity in between periods of calm serenity. It was just what Oliver needed. Not only could he do this, but also it might be a way out. Train Lord is the story of Oliver's extraordinary recovery. A journey back into the light . . . __________ 'Tender, vital and quietly hopeful: a tale of remaking' Guardian 'Rude, raw, visceral, painful and wildly funny' Saga 'Intense and humble, Train Lord won my heart' Australian Book Review
I'm The Fire Engine Driver
Author: Oxford Children's BooksPublisher: Oxford University Press - Children
ISBN: 0192783025
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Today you're the fire engine driver! Your job is to help your crew to put out a fire at the bakery. Hurry! Enter a world of imaginative play with this fun and immersive insight into the role of a firefighter. Children will love using their imagination to take the driver's seat and pretend to use the fire engine's controls to switch on the siren, turn on the flashing lights, and start the engine! This book puts the reader in charge, to build self-confidence and encourage following instructions, problem solving, and teamwork. The narrative is embedded with early learning skills such as recognition of colours, shapes, and numbers. This makes it perfect to share with children as a fun way to practise these key skills, while spotting their favourite vehicles and making the sound effects. The story ends with a sense of achievement as the reader puts the fire out, then drives the crew back to the fire station.
Jim Button and Luke the Engine-driver
Author: Michael EndePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
When their island becomes too crowded, Luke turns his railroad engine into a boat and sets sail for remarkable adventures among people he has never seen before.
The Train to Glasgow
Author: Wilma HorsbrughPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618381432
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A rhyme in the style of "The House That Jack Built", describing the antics that occur when some chickens get loose on a train bound for Glasgow.
Railway Research
Author: Krzysztof ZboinskiPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9535122355
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This book focuses on selected research problems of contemporary railways. The first chapter is devoted to the prediction of railways development in the nearest future. The second chapter discusses safety and security problems in general, precisely from the system point of view. In the third chapter, both the general approach and a particular case study of a critical incident with regard to railway safety are presented. In the fourth chapter, the question of railway infrastructure studies is presented, which is devoted to track superstructure. In the fifth chapter, the modern system for the technical condition monitoring of railway tracks is discussed. The compact on-board sensing device is presented. The last chapter focuses on modeling railway vehicle dynamics using numerical simulation, where the dynamical models are exploited.
Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Engineering
Author: Thomas Gets a Snowplow (Thomas & Friends)
Author: Rev. W. AwdryPublisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375984135
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Winter is coming and Thomas, being a small engine, needs to put on his snowplow. Thomas hates his snowplow; he thinks it makes him look funny, and when he has it on, the other, bigger engines tease him. But Thomas saves the day when a big storm comes up and Toby is stuck on his branch line. From the Trade Paperback edition.