Trains & Railways: General Interest

'There is probably no place in the British Isles that could offer a more attractive study to one interested in railway working on a small scale tha...

More than 100 walks across the length and breadth of Britains lost railway lines. Each walk includes a short history of the railway before it close...

A travelogue, pictorial diary and memories captured in print. A depiction of a wonderful journey. A rail journey from Birkenhead to Beijing and b...

The Western Region of British Railways has always held a special appeal for railway modellers. Formed in 1948, the WR carried on the traditions of...

The line from Settle to Carlisle is one of the world''s great rail journeys. It carves its way through the magnificent landscape of the Yorkshire ...

Incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1835 and completed just six years later, the Great Western Railway was a stupendous technical achievement. Ext...

Elegance in Engineering showcases an interesting and diverse collection of British-built steam locomotives from all builders, for railways at home ...

The heritage railways of Britain have taken preserved steam into a new golden age. All over the country enthusiasts flock to lavish love and attent...

In May 1967, Scotland became the third of the six British Railways regions to dispense with the steam locomotive, bringing an iconic era of Britain...

This book is first and foremost the story of the enginemen and their steeds which brought the steam era to an end on the Southern. It is therefore ...

The London Underground has always been key to the lives of Londoners, from when its stations and stairwells offered refuge from the barrage of the ...

Why did London have to wait so long for a main-line railway beneath its streets? For a few years in the mid-nineteenth century, Isambard Kingdom Br...

This book is the tale of a small boy from Surrey who had a fascination with anything on wheels and, also, loved to learn about people and what moti...

When Jim Body joined Great Northern Railway in 1916, he could never have imagined that it would become ''the family business'', with both his son G...

Early Railways A Modellers Guide will encourage and support the modelling of the earliest period of railway history, from the very beginnings of st...

The third hard copy Summer Special from our Narrow Gauge Net imprint, the book features articles and photo features on: Four Englands Then & N...

We are all familiar with bustling Tube stations and overcrowded carriages, but have you ever wondered what the London Underground looks like empty?...

This book was originally envisaged as a purely photographic overview of those British main-line diesel and electric locomotives which managed to fi...

In 1980 Josef Müller-Brockmann laid the cornerstone for a uniform visual identity for the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) with his legendary Visual In...