Railway Technology, Engineering & Trades

Remembering the romance of a bygone era, with all the dirt, grime and risks the job entailed! Fast train fireman Ken Issitt worked on the footplate...

Thomas Hackworth (1797-1877) has been overlooked by history. He had both the fortune and misfortune to be the brother of a renowned railway enginee...

The age of steam is past, the heyday of Swindon Works is long gone but the legend lives on. What made the Great Western Railways Swindon Works ico...

The book comprises a number of research papers presented at several Computers in Railways Conferences. It has been compiled by Ingo A. Hansen, Pres...

The complexity of integrating the earthing of an AC electrified railway with various electrical distribution systems and exposed conductive parts m...

This book explores the treatment of safety risks in railways, analysing both heavy rail and metros. It is structured into eight chapters, and start...

An entertaining railway memoir covering the Diesel modernisation. Aspects of railway and locomotive operations are explained clearly with detailed ...

  All aboard! Discover all the foul facts behind the story of trains and railways across the world with history's most horrible headli...

The problem of environmental vibrations induced by moving traffic loads, is today increasingly one of the fundamental problems to be solved in traf...

In this book, the authors present current research on the types, design and safety issues of railways. Topics discussed include the acoustic charac...

In 1977, the iconic Swindon Works was building locomotives. By 1986, it was shut down. In The End of the Line, Ron Bateman recounts the fight to sa...