Trains & Railways: General Interest

For the first quarter of the twentieth century, trams constituted the main workhorses of the public road transport system before Birmingham Corpora...

Thanks to a quirk of fate, and the survival of so many locomotives in the Barry scrapyard, the GWR is well represented in the steam preservation sc...

John Stretton follows fellow enthusiasts Stewart Warrington, David Mather and John Gilroy in bringing to print his memories of those now seemingly ...

Theres never a dull moment in this entertaining collection of experiences as Geoff Body and Bill Parker present often hilarious highlights from the...

The steam locomotive was a British invention and even today, the world speed record for steam remains with a British locomotive, Mallard. Steams fi...

Having survived for over two decades as a horse drawn operation, shipping slate downhill between Blaenau Ffestiniog and Portmadoc and the empties b...

This is a vivid, contemporary account of the sights and sounds of the last two years of commercial steam on British Railways from the detailed diar...

The aim of this series is to appeal to readers of all ages, perhaps for different reasons...For the younger reader there are wonderful pictures of ...

This book covers the different types and applications of 15 gauge railways from the Duffield Bank Railway of the 1870s (and its antecedents) to th...

The aim of this series is to appeal to readers of all ages, perhaps for different reasons...In this volume: We travel back to the year 1969 For the...

The plethora of railway closures in the 1950s and 1960s, particularly those that followed Dr Beeching''s ''Reshaping of British Railways'' report i...