Railway Technology, Engineering & Trades

Between 1900 and 1950, Americans built the most powerful steam locomotives of all timeenormous engines that powered a colossal industry. They were ...

When Jim Body joined Great Northern Railway in 1916, he could never have imagined that it would become ''the family business'', with both his son G...

Most historians recognise the work of three engineers as being the men who developed the railways from slow, lumbering colliery lines into fast, in...

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...