Trains & Railways: General Interest

Built as part of the massive expansion of Great Britain''s railway network during the nineteenth century, London''s thirteen mainline railway stati...

The West Coast Main Line is the principal main line linking London to the West Midlands, the North West and Scotland. The majority of rail freight ...

A history of Great Western Railway's direct line from London to South Wales, from the early 1900s onwards. With a focus on those who worked the li...

The Great Western Railways Swindon Works was the largest employer in the area, even during the early British Railway years. For well over a hundred...

The Brighton Atlantic locomotives were some of the most handsome machines ever constructed at Brighton Works. They were signed by the D. Earl Marsh...

Amassing over 52,000 miles from Kent to Cornwall, here is the story of Keith Widdowsons journey as he raced against time to chronicle the steam loc...

Never before has a comprehensive history been written of the track used by railways of all gauges, tramways, and cliff railways, in Great Britain. ...

In Great Britain there existed a practice of naming steam locomotives. The names chosen covered many and varied subjects, however a large number of...

The German Pacific Locomotive (Its Design and Development) is David Maidments fourth book in the series of Locomotive Profiles published by Pen &am...

1968 was a significant year for the railways; steam traction came to an end, and Parliament passed the 1968 Transport Act. The demise of steam mean...

Renowned for its express locomotive Mallard setting a world speed record (126mph) for steam locomotives that endures to this day, the London & ...

Post Privatisation Diesels and Electrics is an album of photographs taken by David Cable, a well-regarded author of several books covering trains t...

The author, Fred Kerr, was introduced to the world of industrial railways in 1956 when his parents moved from Edinburgh to Corby in Northamptonshir...

Ron Buckleys striking photographs show the changing locomotive scene throughout the Great Western Railway and its successor the Western Region of B...

This fascinating book explores the development of locomotives over the course of fifty years. From Richard Trevithick''s first experimental road en...

Stephen Poole joined British Rail in 1973, working for three of its Regions and then for three of its Business Sectors in the run-up to privatisati...

Why build a Railway to Cambridge? This is the first substantive illustrated book about Cambridge Station which explores the opening of the station ...

Southern Gallery 1923 1947 is the first volume in a new series of picture books, designed to be of interest to railway historians and modellers. T...

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

The area of Kings Cross has witnessed a dramatic transformation, with a new city rising above, alongside and within some of the countrys most compe...

Beginning in 1936, just two years after Ron Buckley started what was to be almost half a decade working for the railways, London Midland Steam show...

When BR ran its 15 guinea Special in August 1968 many believed that steam locomotives would quickly become a thing of the past and that future work...