Trains & Railways: General Interest

Glory Days: Western Region Steam Around London is a photographic tribute to the former Great Western Railway (GWR) in the post-war years up to the ...

Almost the entire network of the former Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway system closed at the end of February 1959. Some short sections o...

Being situated in the centre of the UK, the West Midlands have always been the hub of the railway network. From InterCity workings from London Eust...

The 1980s and 1990s were exciting times for British Rail. For many years British Rail had been structured into regions and the livery for rolling s...

Narrow gauge railways have long been a source of fascination for many. From famous public lines such as the Ffestiniog Railway and Lynton & Bar...

In this, his second book on Fifes railways, local enthusiast and photographer Michael Mather delves into the past with a selection of photographs m...

Dr Beechings infamous 1963 report recommending cuts to a number of Britains railways has long been etched into the consciousness of the British pub...

A thin pair of steel ribbons across town and countryside, along sea walls, over remote and lonely Highland moors, through tunnels, and carried on ...

Hugh Llewelyn has visited, lived and/or worked in London since the 1950s and began taking railway photographs in the early 1960s. This volume cover...

The Connecticut Valley Railroad once carried both passengers and freight along the west bank of the Connecticut River between Hartford and Old Sayb...

Highly illustrated volume covering the emergence of the modern railway in a unique, essentially geographical way. Contemporary maps, many never bef...

John Dedman first started to take photos of coaches in the late 1970s, mainly as references for modelling purposes. In British Coaching Stock, he d...

The first transcontinental railroad in the USA was completed in 1869. In the following years, until the turn of the twentieth century, many more ra...

Bounded by the counties of Hampshire, Somerset, Berkshire, Dorset, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, the county of Wiltshire has several significant...

The Rail Rover ticket for Scotland in the 1970s and 1980s had the grandiose title Freedom of Scotland for the ever-growing group of diesel enthusi...

DB Cargo emerged from the governments sell-off of the rail freight sector in the mid-1990s. It has gone through many changes of name and branding s...

Electric Locomotives on Scottish Railways covers virtually the whole of the electrified network across Scotland. The first electrification took pla...

London Midland Steam Days Remembered offers the very best quality colour photographs of steam from the 1950s and 1960s across the region, with not ...

R.J. (Ron) Buckleys photographs illustrate the locomotive scene in Scotland, witnessed across his long career on the railways. This evocative colle...

The Woodhead Route from Manchester to Sheffield has achieved almost mythical status, not only thanks to the Woodhead Tunnels, but also because of t...

As the modernisation of the former British Railways moved forward into Railtrack and then Network Rail, various schemes to bring the West Country r...

For many people, Doncaster will always be a railway town. Its association with locomotive building and with the prestige express trains of the East...

Across Scotland there are remnants of many disused railway lines, reminders of the wider network that once served a variety of locations. Some fasc...

Coaches have long been a part of life in Britain, from the days of eighteenth-century stage coaches galloping along muddied tracks to air-condition...

Great Railway Journeys: London to Sheffield features a series of fascinating sites that can be seen from the window of a train travelling to Sheffi...

A new and comprehensive history of one of our best-loved railway companies. '' God'' s Wonderful Railway'' , t...

Discover the fascinating histories and routes of 50 of the world''s most scenic railways. Railway expert Julian Holland takes you on a journey arou...

Illustrated with 200 photographs, this book depicts the rich scenery and history of the old Western Dunbartonshire railway, which stretched from Cl...

The transcontinental railroads were the first corporate behemoths. Their attempts to generate profits from proliferating debt sparked devastating e...

Well into the 1960s, the steam locomotive held sway on many of Britain's railway lines. As late as 1964, there were thousands of steam locomotives ...

Steam's final fling proved a melancholy experience for the many enthusiasts who had witnessed the gleaming giants of the rails in their prime. One ...

The opportunity to commit crime on the railways began from the day they were being built. The crimes both mirrored the range of those committed out...