Trains & Railways: General Interest

Railway wagons were first used by the British to carry sick and wounded militarily in the Crimean War in 1855. Specially converted British hospital...

There were 20,000 miles of railways in 1865 and about a million by 2020. Scale has always been a key theme in railway history. In the First World W...

The storage and ultimate disposal of redundant or worn-out railway locomotives and rolling stock is a much overlooked subject, but is most certainl...

There can be few routes through France which have not been exhaustively charted by travel writers. There's one, however, which runs for fifty kilom...

Class 43 locomotives were introduced to British Rail from 1976 onwards and eventually numbered 197 in total. In Scotland, they were initially alloc...

Dave Hewitt has made many trips to North America over the last twenty years, including visits to thirty-five of the fifty US states. Inspired by Am...

Crewe has long been a destination for the rail enthusiast keen to see lots of interest and continuous operation. In the era when Rail Blue dominate...

In 2016, while working as a journalist in Yangon, Clare Hammond discovered an obscure map that showed a web of new railways spanning the length and...

In 2011, Devon County Council outlined plans for a rapid-transit-style rail network, the Devon Metro, achieved through improvements to services and...

NOTHING LIKE IT IN THE WORLD is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad – the investors who risked their businesses and money;...

For nearly thirty years, John Haining (under the pen name 'Countryman's Steam') contributed a vast range of designs and constructional articles to ...

Earl J. Currie examines the standards, methods, and practices for railway operations that James J. Hill developed and applied so successfully for t...

The largest enterprise in the capitalist world between 1920 and 1932, the Deutsche Reichsbahn (German National Railway) was at the center of events...

All aboard for a one-of-a-kind journey by train to some of the most obscure parts of Britain On the 200th birthday of the world’s first p...

Growing up in the bustling railroad town of Norfolk, Virginia, and joining his conductor grandfather on overnight runs, future Fortune journalist R...

In this book, Alfred Mierzejewski describes how the German economy collapsed under Allied bombing in the last year of World War II. He presents a b...

From 1901 to 1938 the Lake Shore Electric claimed to be—and was considered by many—"The Greatest Electric Railway in the United States." It followe...

"Easy-going, discursive and digressive, even those to whom trains are a closed timetable will find this a charming travelogue." - Stuart MaconieJoi...

In the 1870s, people traveling west of the Mississippi were still venturing into the wild. Loud, smoke-belching trains might have cut across the ro...

Louisville & Nashville Steam LocomotivesRevised 1968 EditionRichard E. PrinceA revised new edition of an encyclopedic study."For over one hundr...

The passenger train has long held a special place in the imagination of Americans, and Indiana was once a bustling passenger train crossroads. Limi...

The Pennsylvania Railroad at BayWilliam Riley McKeen and the Terre Haute & Indianapolis RailroadRichard T. WallisThe first complete study of Wi...

Early in the 19th century, growing American cities began to experience transportation problems. One solution was the horse-drawn streetcar, develop...

The metro provides an intriguing location to observe the social landscape of urban regions around the globe. For the past eight years, Stan Raucher...

Best known for his Jimmie Dale series of books, which have sold more than 3 million copies worldwide, Frank L. Packard first published The Wire Dev...

Creator and first president of the New York Central Railroad, Erastus Corning was one of the outstanding American businessmen of the midnineteenth ...

The second volume in the history of the Union Pacific begins after the financial panic of 1893, one of the worst depressions Americans had yet expe...

The Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway was an important part of the commercial life of the upper Midwest during the age of railways. D...

At one point in time, no place in Iowa was more than a few miles from an active line of rail track. In this splendid companion volume to Steel Trai...

Gulf to Rockies is a chapter in the business and economic history of the American West and the story of two of the most colorful railroad builders ...

Long before Brexit, the Common Market and even the Commonwealth, Britannia truly did rule the waves. Perhaps more unsung is the fact that she also ...

The Diesel That Did It tells the story of the legendary diesel-electric locomotive, the FT.As war loomed in 1939, American railroads were on the pr...

  A high-stakes adventure story full of heart from debut author Varsha Shah, featuring charming illustrations from Sònia Albert...

In 2012, Direct Rail Services (DRS) placed an order with Vossloh (now Stadler Rail) for its first Class 68 diesel locomotives. The fleet size has n...