Trains & Railways: General Interest

This photographic album showing the class 47 diesel locomotives has been compiled by a well-established author of similar titles, David Cable. Mor...

The outbreak of the Second World War had an enormous effect on the railway system in Britain. Keeping the trains running through times of conflict ...

WORCESTER LOCOMOTIVE SHED is the third in a series of in depth studies of Western Region motive power depots. This provincial city was a busy and f...

This high quality full colour 112 page softback pictorial album showcases the best in miniature railway photography from one of the best photograph...

The story of Gresley and his locomotives is a well-trodden path. But our view of his achievements is a blinkered one because it fails to recognise ...

We all remember the famous trains of yesteryear like The Flying Scotsman, The Royal Scot and The Waverley, passenger trains from the great days of ...

An illustrated history of the 760mm gauge locomotives produced in Linz, Austria. Many of these iconic locomotives survived into preservation and wi...

Passengers on the early railways took their lives in their hands every time they got on board a train. It was so dangerous that they could buy an i...

A history in pictures of 40 years of preservation at Wales' first standard gauge heritage railway. This full colour illustrated history of Wales' ...

British luxury rail travel was not just the domain of the Pullman Company. In fact, they were far from the only providers as railway companies in B...

Great American Railroad Journeys sees the famous brand of social-history-cum-travelogue venture to the New World. Across multiple programmes and us...

Few sights can reawaken memories of happy holidays of yesteryear as vividly as the superb railway posters that were so much a part of the great age...

Great Western Railway Stars, Castles and Kings examines the history and workings of these legendary classes of passenger steam locomotives, the fir...

The London Midland Region covered a huge part of England from London to the north and north west, from the Scottish borders into the south west. I...

Curl up with the wonderfully cosy SUNDAY TIMES bestselling tale of the exciting adventures of Felix and Bolt!'FULL OF FUNNY AND HEART-WARMING STORI...

The North-West of England is a diverse and fascinating part of the country with a varied landscape. This area was once the powerhouse of the indust...

Greater Manchester covers an area of 493 square miles and is a diverse part of North West England, it is home to 2.8 million people. At its heart i...

The author came to London from Lancashire as a nine-year old having developed an interest in his local buses and Blackpool trams at a very early ag...

Covering most of the most of the railways of Shropshire and following the River Severn down to the Bewdley area, this evocative book largely uses t...

`The Last Years of Steam Across Somerset and Dorset' gives an excellent photographic study of yesteryear and the iconic steam locomotive at work. T...