Trains & Railways: General Interest

Although a great deal has been published on the economic, social and engineering history of nineteenth-century railways, the work of historical geo...

In the heroic days of rail travel, you could dine on kippers and champagne aboard the Brighton Belle; smoke a post-prandial cigar as the Golden Arr...

In the early twentieth century, an epic battle was waged across America between the interurban railway and the automobile, two technologies that ar...

The definitive history of one of the nation’s great transcontinental railroads In the sprawling Northwest, from the upper Mississippi River valley ...

A saga about one of the oldest and most romantic enterprises in the land—America's railroads—The Men Who Loved Trains introduces some of the most d...

In 1848, a group of ambitious American entrepreneurs decided to embark upon a remarkable engineering feat—they would build a railroad across the Is...

Robert Ellis James-Robertson (but always known as Ellis) lived at Worcester from the mid-1950s and travelled extensively around the country buildin...

O.S. Nock continues his account of the GWR 4-4-0s with a further look at G.J. Churchward and his programme of modernisation and standardisation, pa...

This is a reprint of the intriguing story of four short-line railroads that operated in the Merced River Canyon to serve Yosemite National Park. Or...

Ken Hoole was a noted authority on the railways of the north east of England. This, his wide-ranging account of the stations that served the passen...

This book puts together the collected memories of a varied group of men from the now closed Ryecroft shed, with lots of facts about the history of ...

The Thames has a long history. This illustrated guide traces the history of its crossing places, and relates their origins to local use and that of...

Continues from Engine Sheds in Camera (2005), which presented a record of engine sheds and motive power depots in Britain in the 1950s and '60s. Th...

English Electric Class 20 locomotives once operated over virtually the entire rail network of Scotland. They were introduced to the Highlands in th...

Though British Rail had dispensed with steam locomotives by 1968, the greatest changes to the capital’s railways occurred afterwards. In the early ...

Presents a social and industrial study of the conditions faced by the many thousands of working men and women and their families whose lives were c...

Windswept vistas. Scorched canyons. Glorious scenes of snow and ice. This book shows the North American landscape in all its breathtaking glory, cl...