A survivor’s true story of a railway catastrophe that transformed her life—and turned her into a passionate advocate for safety and disaster prevention. Terror by Rail is the compelling true story of a major catastrophic event: the Amtrak 188 accident on May 12, 2015. After the accident, Lynn Radice faced a difficult journey of recovery from trauma—and at the same time, her passion for answers caused her to ask questions about train safety and the bigger global issues that are challenges of the rail. A must read for anyone who travels, lives, or works near a rail system, Terror by Rail is a wakeup call. As the phrase goes, “See Something Say Something”—and in this book, the author is doing just that. This story of a single mom’s heartbreaking journey through hell and back will give everyone facing challenges in their life a bit of hope that nothing is permanent, and it is possible to come through the pain to the other side, and make things better in the process.

Two boys, traveling from Chicago to Portland, Oregon, by train, join forces with an elderly mystery writer to investigate a fellow passenger's sudden death.

In Al-Qaeda's Revenge: The 2004 Madrid Train Bombings, Fernando Reinares tells the story of "3/11" - the March 11, 2004, bombings of commuter trains in Madrid, which killed 192 people and injured more than 1,800. He examines the development of an al-Qaeda conspiracy in Spain from the 1990s through the formation of the 3/11 bombing network beginning in March 2002, and discusses the preparations for and fallout from the attacks. Reinares draws on judicial, police, and intelligence documents to which he had privileged access, as well as on personal interviews with officials in Spain and elsewhere. His full analysis links the Madrid bombings to al-Qaeda's senior leadership and unveils connections between 3/11 and 9/11. Al-Qaeda's Revenge, Spain's counterpart to The 9/11 Commission Report, was a bestseller in Spain.

From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories, named 'the outstanding children's non-fiction author of the 20th century' by Books For Keeps _______________ Ideal for readers aged 7+ A crowded train takes a wrong turn and hurtles at full speed into a section of track that should have been closed for repair. Among the passengers is the writer Charles Dickens. Can young workman Tommy stop the train in time and save the lives of those on board – or is it already too late? In this dramatic re-telling of one of the worst rail accidents in Victorian Britain, the Staplehurst Railway disaster, Terry Deary's Victorian Tales explore the fascinating world of the Victorians, including many of the incredible achievements and breakthroughs that took place, through the eyes of children who could have lived at the time. This edition features notes for the reader to help extend learning and exploration of the historical period. _______________ 'Bubbling with wit, language play and robust dialogue....just the right mix of ingredients to trigger young readers' interest in all things historical' - Books For Keeps

Travel Tales: Trains - Terror on the Rails: Is the next book in line of relatively shorter-take samplers in my True Travel Tales book series. It's a collection of some scary close calls on passenger or freight trains while plying some of the World's most famous railways and barely managing in some instances to escape from being robbed or even harmed. Train Stories is a collection of some fearful close calls that can and do happen to world rail travelers on occasion. Mostly these will never happen to you but if they do, you may get to experience some real, raw fear including sometimes even fear for your own life on some very unsettling occasions that can potentially pop up now and again to any of us rail travelers and adventurers. This collection of True Travel Tales is the place to hear about them. I hope such things don't happen to you, but if they do, I hope you'll manage to escape and overcome. Hopefully, you'll be all the wiser for reading about such things throughout these pages. Again, Trains includes some examples of bad things that occasionally happen to travelers despite their best efforts to avoid such things. But bad things of course DO happen now and again, and the best thing to do is to of course avoid them in the first place! Hah! But if we cannot, we should certainly at least do our best to escape them. While there is no easy, simple laundry list of failsafe rail traveling strategies for always staying safe and surviving each potentially dangerous situation that may arise in your travels on the rails, there are, nevertheless, meaningful takeaway strategies to be learned from the numerous examples presented in this book that will enable one to develop and keep in mind ways to enhance personal safety and reduce the risks of potentially dangerous outcomes at times in your travel on the World's railroads. While the tales in Trains are of course not all strictly about life and death and/or robbery situations, many are doubtless about difficult, embarrassing, and otherwise potentially annoying nuisance situations that we all would do very well to do without in the first place. The scope and variety of close calls and ultimate escapes in Trains - Terror on the Rails may very well surprise you and cause you a good laugh now and again as well. Some are quite funny, like, for example, the story of soiled clothing so very badly in need of laundering that traveled over and over again throughout the rails of France. The extreme close-call adventures may never happen to you, but reading about them in this particular book in my True Travel Tales series, may give you pause: who knows? Maybe you'll never, be followed, stalked, chased, or intimidated at all in the first place or maybe in the next instance throughout your travels on the rails. Sure, you'll read stories in this book that will alert you to situations that may never even have occurred to you in the first place. But if you avoid even one potentially new (to you) travel danger by reading this book, then I will have accomplished a very useful purpose.

The story tells of two men, one (Matthew Kumalo) bent on disrupting the stretch of Rhodesia Railways track south of Victoria Falls and towards Bulawayo in the south, harassing and murdering railway staff, and the other in protecting the same and keeping traffic flowing. Phillip Lewis, was the railway civil engineer in charge of keeping the vital railway lines open in the face of the continued terrorist attacks. Joanna Wilson, working as a reporter on the South African Johannesburg Star newspaper, was the woman that Phillip had never got out of his system. She revisits Rhodesia with a South African media group to report on the war presently raging across the country. Simultaneously the ZANLA forces of Robert Mugabe, working out of Mozambique, are planning to destroy the road/rail bridge over the Zambezi River at Victoria Falls, chiefly to prevent Joshua Nkomo's Russian tanks crossing from Zambia into Rhodesia where they could potentially be used against Mugabe's ZANU party. The war of terror subsequently leads to Phillip and Joanna being isolated and pursued through the bush leaving Phillip with life-changing decisions to make. The Author Tom Bryer, OLM, C.Eng. FICE (ret'd) A retired Chartered Civil Engineer, whose career centred on the design, construction and maintenance of a variety of railway systems, including those in Central and Southern Africa, Channel Tunnel, Docklands Light Railway, London Underground, Network Rail and South Wales Docks. Tom lived with his wife Ida in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe for a period from 1967 to 1983 and witnessed much of the internal strife of the period. Recently a widower, he now spends his time writing novels (un-published), choir singing and tending to house and garden.