Trains & Railways: General Interest

A railway arrived on Anglesey in 1848, linking London and Dublin. It was the great railway engineer Robert Stephenson who ensured that the railway ...

Discovering Britains First Railways is devoted to the history, rediscovery and exploration of Britains first railways, examining its network of ove...

The Great Western Railway quickly coming to be known as Gods Wonderful Railway was once regarded as the most advanced in the world. Engineered by...

The formative years of Britains railway network produced a host of ideas, activities and characters, quite a few of which now seem not only highly ...

The London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) claimed to be the largest private enterprise concern in the British Empire. It was Britains larges...

Few locomotives are as widely known or excite so much interest as Flying Scotsman. Designed by Sir Nigel Gresley in 1923, the locomotive became a f...

At the forefront of innovation and development in the rail world, the Southern Railway was the only main-line railway to embrace electrification wh...

Two men started the transformation from sleepy hilltop community into a thriving town. Gooch and Brunel chose the area near Swindon to build a fact...

Despite the substantial decline of coal mining in the UK over the last three decades, until recently, coal was still a vital energy source for the ...

The five years either side of the millennium was a period of great change on the railway network with the advent of privatisation and, on the passe...

In Signalman's Twilight, Adrian continues the story of his railway life in rural West Berkshire. Adrian revelled in the gentle, old-world atmospher...

With its size, France is home to a huge number of locomotives. The country can basically be split in two, with the northern half running on AC trac...

This is the tenth and final volume in this series of regional books examining the industrial railways of England, Scotland and Wales. Following on ...

The arrival of the railways in the first half of the nineteenth century and their subsequent spread across every one of the world''s continents, ac...

Scottish Railways in the 1960s makes a broadly clockwise journey around the country visiting many long-closed railways, branch lines, a few industr...

It is now more than thirty years since two words synonymous with Diesel Multiple Units became part of railway parlance Pacers and Sprinters. The ...