Trains & Railways: General Interest

China was the last bastion of the steam railway, with construction of new steam locomotives for industrial use continuing up to the end of 1999. Ev...

From Britain's most popular railway historian, a concise, authoritative and fast-paced telling of how the railways changed the world. The arrival ...

In 2012 it was all change for the railways of East Anglia. After eight years of National Express it was time for a new operator to emerge on to the...

Wisconsin, known affectionately as Americas Dairyland, is in the upper Midwest, bordered by Lake Michigan on the east and the Mississippi River to ...

In the early 1980s, Ravenscraig steel works was the biggest source of rail freight north of the border, handling iron ore, coal, lime and scrap, as...

Illustrated with 180 photographs, this book looks at the much-loved West Highland line, which runs from Glasgow to Fort William, along with the Mal...

Set against the contrasting rural and industrial scenery of northern Lincolnshire, this book illustrates the area''s fascinating passenger and frei...

The West Coast Main Line and the line from Kilmarnock south to Gretna were both built to ensure that passenger services from Scotland would connect...

There are very few mainline railway routes that actually cross London. One of the few that does is the West London line between Clapham Junction an...

Over the last few years the UK rail network has been going through a transformative period, changing rail travel for many different people. New tra...