What's it like to drive a train? How are railway tunnels built? How do trains go up hill? This fantastic book for young readers has all the answers and more.
With simple, easy-reading text, bright illustrations and fascinating photographs.
Chapters in this book include:
- Train travel
- People carrier
- Moving goods
- Making tracks
- Flat track
- Driving a train
- Train control
- Running on steam
- Diesel engines
- Electric trains
- In the city
- High-speed travel
- Going up
- Going the distance
This is Book 87 in the Beginners Series. See all Beginners books here.
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Emily Bone is a published author of children's books. She has published Cowboy Things to Make and Do and 50 Secret Codes.
More about Emily BoneJane is a regular contributor to poetry anthologies for children and is the author of numerous delightful picture books. She spent many happy years in the Netherlands working as a library assistant at an International School. Now Jane lives in Kent with her two sons and two Labradors.
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