Trains & Railways: General Interest

Railway enthusiasts living in London in the 1960s saw steam gradually disappearing from the capitals railways. By 1966, with a few exceptions only ...

Italy is dominated by its national operator Trenitalia. With most of the country bordered by the Mediterranean, there is little scope for cross-bor...

When British Rail decided to electrify the West Coast Main Line north of Crewe towards Scotland, a new class of electric locomotive was needed to w...

The city of Leeds in West Yorkshire was once one of the busiest railway centres in Britain and had the largest concentration of railway engine buil...

When thinking of railways in Merseyside, some people will think of the extensive third-rail Merseyrail commuter system. Although prominent in the w...

Following the First World War, some railway and tramway companies began selling the bodies of their railway carriages and tramcars, with many findi...

Great Railway Journeys: The Chiltern Line to Birmingham is a record of forty fascinating sites that can be seen from the window of a train travelli...

Over the course of several volumes, Allen Jackson uses an array of photographs to lavishly illustrate the story of signalling in the principal cons...

How many times have we heard the phrase they dont make them like they used to? Whatever the merits or otherwise of applying such a comment to UK r...

For Britains railways, the 1970s was a time of contrasts, when gallows humour about British Rail sandwiches and delayed trains often overshadowed r...

Operated by the Govia Group, London Midland commenced operation in November 2007, combining the former Silverlink franchise with parts of the forme...

Recording an iconic and important decade in the history of the Southern Region, Michael Hymans offers a unique year-by-year photographic record of ...

The most glamorous trains run by railway companies were the high-speed expresses, linking the major towns, cities and holiday destinations. They in...

The author came to London from Lancashire as a nine-year old, having developed an interest in buses and trams at a very early age. He remained in s...

Sorely neglected by railway authors, the line between Bristol and Taunton was part of the Bristol & Exeter Railway. A fascinating line, it was ...

The quarter-century after the Rainhill Trials was an exciting period of growth and experimentation on the railways. The railway locomotive evolved ...

The beauty of its mountain and coastal scenery has always made the railways of North Wales special. During the 1960s, as fast as steam was fading o...

George Stephenson was born in 1781, the son of a Northumberland colliery engineman. Within a hundred years of his birth his railway legacy had open...

In September 1962, the author started revisiting his boyhood trainspotting haunts at the London terminals this time armed with a newly purchased c...

Over the course of several volumes, Allen Jackson offers an array of never Allen Jackson before published photographs to lavishly illustrate the st...

The Bluebell Railway was the premier preserved line in the thirty year period covered in this book. Busy as he was with recording working BR s team...

The mountains of Alberta and British Columbia in western Canada have always challenged the resolve of the railways that worked their way west, open...

For almost a century, from its inception in the years immediately after World War I, the Aerofilms company recorded the changing face of England fr...

This book looks back to the time when steam locomotives were the dominant form of power on the railways in the North East of England - as they ha...

This is a portrait of a railway network that became beloved of the last generations lucky enough to experience mainline steam. The 1960s saw great ...

Continuing his series looking at the industrial locomotives and railways of England, Wales and Scotland, Gordon Edgar looks at Greater London and t...

In October 1982, Paul Williams went to university in Newcastle upon Tyne. His first act in the city was to buy a good camera, and over the next fo...

The Class 156 (Super Sprinter) is a Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) ordered by British Rail and built between 1987 and 1989 by Metro-Cammell to replace ...

As in many countries in the 1970s, South Africas railways were making the change over from steam to diesel and electric traction at an ever-increas...

Railway photography has never been more popular. Good quality images, once only achievable with expensive professional hardware, are now within eve...

A MERE PUFF OF WIND is the story of the abortive attempt to construct The London & Portsmouth Direct Atmospheric Railway during the Railway...

The two decades following the end of the Second World War was a period of great change in Britain. One of the most noticeable changes, apparent thr...

Loadhaul, Mainline and Transrail were formed in 1994, when British Rail decided to concentrate its freight operations in the three companies. BR de...

The pictures in this book were chosen from the many hundreds of 35mm colour slides Bill Reed took on and off the route stretching from London to Ab...

In the latter half of the eighteenth century, Bristol was a flourishing city and required coal for its developing glass, pottery, sugar refining, b...

This collection of 168 colour photographs, which date from 1958 to 1967, features the Western Region of B.R., formerly the territory of the Great W...

With dramatic and previously unpublished images, Steam in the North: Railways in the 1960s across the North of England is more than just a book of ...

As we recall the recent forty-fifth anniversary of the end of steam working on British Rail, Steam North West is a fascinating journey along the We...

Covering the most of the railways of Shropshire and following the River Severn down to the Bewdley area, this evocative book largely uses the photo...

Swindon Works 19301960 is a fully revised and enlarged edition of Working at Swindon Works 19301960, first published in 2007. It describes various ...

Prior to the nationalisation of the railways in 1948, Britain's rail network was operated almost exclusively by four private companies. The 'Big Fo...

The Class 58s were introduced in 1983, and were a significant departure from normal build standards. The fifty members were built by BREL at Doncas...

The Mallaig Extension was approved in 1894 to provide a continuation of the West Highland route for the benefit of the fishing industry on Scotland...

Ex-railwayman Bill Reed, now 78, has spent most of his life driving, photographing or observing locomotives in the UK and abroad - even at times ...

What are the wrong kinds of leaves on the track? At which station could you buy your ticket from a booth in a tree? How do smooth wheels grip smo...

'Stations and Lineside Views in and Around London' features photographs taken by retired British Medical Council researcher/author Dr B. W. L. Bro...