Author: Tom Farris

How much pride, trouble and misery could a steam locomotive create? No other locomotive could have beaten the ‘Flying Scotsman’. Its story is wrapp...

This book tells the story of the coming of the railways ( USA = railroads) in Britain. The story follows the path of successes and failures, and pe...

How grand a dream was it? It started off with people in Bristol wanting a railway to London 190km (120 miles) away for carrying goods quickly betwe...

It was madness. From the beginning of main line passenger railways there had been fierce competition between trains running on the east side of Bri...