Hardcover 8.5 x 12 Pictorial and Technical Reference Guide:- The History of the GOTTHARD RAILWAY by M. Hardy-Randall" - The most significant comprehensively detailed history of the Gotthard Railway, from the foremost authority on the Gotthard Railway route in the english speaking world. This reference book is huge..!! with extensive technical information, locomotive, coach, wagon scale blue prints, line drawings, service history's, scheduled maintenance, route maps, track layouts, station plans, buildings and lineside structures, timetables, tickets, rolling stock profiles, extensive construction details, site accidents, surveys, geographical features, obstacles and challenges, scheduled trains, train composition, challenges of weather on the timetable, route infrastructure including all bridges and tunnel drawings, engineering data, ...... everything necessary to build, operate and service an international railway route through the Swiss Alps.

First Published 1997, by John Cocking, Swiss Book Service, Salisbury, England.  510 pages, English text. First 34 section headings consume 287 pages. 22 Appendices consume 223 pages. Approx. 475 fine grain photographs, 10 track layout plans, hundreds of engineering drawings.....

Both loco pictures are taken at Erstfeld Engine shed, May 31st 2007

A super Review of 125 years of this branch, will be celebrated in September 2007 in Erstfeld and Airolo (Switzerland)

This book is for European Railways Enthusiast, specializing in Switzerland.

Overall rating 5 stars at all!