Trains & Railways: General Interest

Alfred Plumley, son of a coachman, was born in 1874 in Somersets Mendip Hills. Written in his old age, this memoir of his youth was discovered in a...

When a 35 mile stretch of the former Waverley route from Edinburgh to Carlisle reopened on 6 September 2015, it became the most significant reopeni...

It will make you laugh and it will make you cry: Felix The Railway Cat is the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling, extraordinary tale of a close-knit communit...

James D. Dilts has written the first comprehensive study of the broad range of structures built in North America for the railroads during their hey...

On December 18, 1867, the Buffalo and Erie Railroads eastbound New York Express derailed as it approached the high truss bridge over Big Sister Cre...

In the long and absorbing history of Britain's railways and the men and women who have worked on them, the most challenging years were those of the...

Kevin McCormack has written a large number of transport books mainly using previously unpublished material, much of it sourced from the Online Tran...

It is possible that in the history of British steam locomotives no class of engine was ever more universally popular than the Stanier '5MT' 4-6-0 c...

The exciting early days of the railways were tempered with danger, as the Victorian concept of health and safety was rather different to ours. Goin...

At the beginning of 1967 the writing was clearly on the wall for Southern Steam, with the intention of eliminating it altogether on the 18th June o...

The Great Western Railway, had two classes of tender locomotives named after counties, the first class of two cylinder 4-4-0 tender locomotives, de...

Experience the world by train alongside best-selling travel writer Tom Chesshyre, as he takes a whistle-stop tour around the globe in 49 unique jou...

R.J. (Ron) Buckleys photographs show the changing locomotive scene taking place throughout the counties of Northumberland, Durham and Yorkshire, il...