Trains & Railways: General Interest

August 2020 marked the fortieth anniversary of the opening of the first section of the Tyne & Wear Metro between Haymarket and Tynemouth. It is...

Towards the end of the twentieth century, take a photographic journey along the railway lines to the southwest and south of Birmingham. Starting at...

This Great Railway Journeys of Europe guidebook, perfect for travellers planning longer trips, is written by Insight Guides' destination experts. I...

As electricity became more widely used to power and light Britains towns and cities a number of municipal boroughs built their own power stations. ...

The 1970s was a unique period for Britains railways. Steam had not long been replaced by diesel traction, the West Coast Main Line electrification ...

Tracing multiple mobilities, entangled borderlands, microhistory and space, and human and nonhuman actors, Jan Musekamp demonstrates how an inner-P...

Coal and iron making first brought railways to what is now called South Yorkshire. The industrial towns of Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley and Donca...

These twelve classic black and white photographs from 1905 through 1938 picture the sunset of the locomotive steam age and the dawn of streamlined ...