Trains & Railways: General Interest

'Like so many other boys of my generation, I wanted to be an engine driver; my dreams, however, were dashed in 1956 when I went for a medical at De...

The history of British Railways in the late 1950s/early 1960s is characterised by change; massive change, as its management attempted to meet statu...

Biography of British Train Travel is a collection of mainly previously unpublished articles and short stories, covering a lifelong interest in rail...

Nottingham-based Bill Reed, now 78, was a fireman on steam locomotives in the early part of his working life, eventually graduating to being a driv...

This album of 160 colour photographs was taken in the Southern Region of B.R., which was formerly the lines constituting the Southern Railway. Bill...

Bill Reed's excellent pin-sharp pictures have been showcased in four previous Fonthill publications: Working and Preserved Industrial Locomotives; ...

Few people realise it, but Barnsley was once the centre of a railway universe. In Victorian times, dozens of competing companies put forward scheme...

This is an evocative selection of high quality colour views, each of which recaptures the lost age of Britain's branch lines and secondary railways...

'An Indian Summer of Steam' is the second volume of David Maidment's 'railway' autobiography, following his first book 'A Privileged Journey', publ...

California's sawmill and railroad industries grew up together, each at least partially depending upon the other for survival. However, not all of ...

At the turn of the 20th century the rail network extended to over 23,000 miles, very nearly the circumference of the world the greatest length it w...

There have been tramways in Britain for 150 years, but it is a story of rise, decline and slow renaissance. Trams have come and gone, been loved an...

The railways of the USA have a great following, both in the United States where there are large numbers of rail fans and increasingly in Britain/Eu...

These 44 models of train have been chosen to represent well-loved contemporary machines as well as a few unusual examples. Each machine has been ph...

Great Western Railway Ganger is the story of Dan Brew's life spent as a lineman for the Great Western Railway and British Rail, including twenty-ei...

This book represents the final stage in the Society's quest to present the complete story of British locomotive standardisation to culminate in the...

Do you love trains? Do you love adventure? If so, join Tom Chesshyre on his meandering rail journey across Europe from London to Venice. Escaping t...

The history of commercial railway locomotive manufacture in the Leeds is a fascinating story, covering a period of nearly two centuries, which comm...

When British Railways (BR) initiated its Modernisation Plan in 1954 it had little experience of diesel locomotives thus initiated a Pilot Scheme to...

From 1972 onwards, Andy Sparks sought to capture the different scenes unfolding on the railways of Britain. With his camera at the ready, he travel...