Trains & Railways: General Interest

The Last Years of Steam around Central Wales is a pictorial record of an area rich in railway history. The northern border of this region is broadl...

In Folk Tales on the Settle-Carlisle Railway, join the driver and fireman on the footplate of a locomotive. Stand behind a range of levers in a sig...

LEEDS to CARLISLE The line from Leeds to Carlisle furnished the Midland Railway with an independent route to Scotland, in opposition to the rival ...

This is the story of the train operating company First Great Western, whose performance rose from being the worst for a long-distance operator in t...

The Keighley & Worth Valley Railway is perhaps best known for its role in the 1970s film The Railway Children, based on Edith Nesbit's much-lov...

Alan Maund lived in Worcestershire all his life and had an enthusiasm for steam. He travelled extensively in Britain and built up a large railway p...

Evolving from the horse-drawn stage coaches that they soon eclipsed, railway carriages steadily grew in sophistication so that by the end of the ni...

Very few diaries of directors and senior managers of the Big Four railways have survived to enter the public domain. There are, however, two notabl...

The year 2002 saw a radical change on the railways of Devon and Cornwall: it was the last year of daily locomotive hauled passenger trains (other t...

This is the second in a new series on the South Wales Valleys by John Hodge, author of the South Wales Main Line series and North and West series, ...

Colin Boococks' railway photographs are already familiar as they have been featured in a variety of railway books and magazines. This book shows ar...

Travelling around the Eastern Region in the 1970s and 1980s meant Deltics and then HSTs on the East Coast Main Line; long and slow freight trains c...

London Underground Time Line is the story of the London Underground network, from 1863 to the present day. The book charts the system as it evolved...

In the nineteenth century the War Office showed little interest in developing large heavy artillery for its land forces, preferring instead to equi...

The white cliffs of Dover, the soaring spire of Salisbury cathedral and the distinctive Blackpool Tower are all iconic landmarks of the English la...

The British were at the forefront of railway development for the first fifty years of the nineteenth century. Railway Empire tells the story of how...

A photographic journey along the infamous River Kwai Railway in the 21st Century, featuring both tourist and local trains, as well as works trains,...

In the days when coal was king, an ambitious plan was laid for an east-to-west cross country rail route, connecting the Manchester Ship Canal at Wa...

The Severn Valley Railway has long been considered by many to be Britain s premier heritage railway. That reputation was earned early thanks to the...

Turbomotive was unique in Britain's railway history, and an experimental engine that proved successful but came too late to effect the direction of...

The Deltics were a transport phenomenon. They improved timings on the east coast mainline (ECML) from poor steam locomotive times to matching the n...

The second millennium saw the spread and consolidation of Christianity in Britain. One means by which the Normans tightened their grip on Britain a...