Trains & Railways: General Interest

Through Dennis A. Livesey's camera lens, readers will experience the thrill of the steam railroad, a transportation system that dominated the USA...

These days, an underground railway is an integral part of a city's heritage and a key feature of the urban landscape used by passengers. But these ...

Nigel Gresley built his Pacific class of locomotives to deal with increasing demands from passenger traffic. Some Pacifics started as Class A1s but...

In this engaging social history of the impact of railroads on American life, H. Roger Grant explores the railroad's golden age of 18301930. To capt...

Desperate for laborers to keep the trains moving during World War II, the U.S. and Mexican governments created a now mostly forgotten bracero railr...

A comprehensive look at the LMS/BR Class 7 4-6-0 rebuilt locomotives, including the rebuilt Jubilees, the rebuilt Patriots and the rebuilt Royal Sc...

The Severn Tunnel Junction was the largest freight marshalling yard on the Western Region of British Railways, once stretching for over two miles a...

ferroequinologist (noun) Someone who studies the Iron Horse (i.e. trains and locomotives). From the Latin ferrus iron and equine horse + -logist As...

THE REVIVAL AND RESTORATION of the Welsh Highland Railway is one of the greatest heritage railway achievements of the 21st Century, yet its success...

The disappearance of steam from Britains main-line railways marked the end of an era of British rail travel. Here Andrew Britton remembers the last...

The hundred years from 1850 to 1950 were Londons railway century, an era during which the city was defined by its railways: grimy and utilitarian y...

This book is one of the Pen & Sword Locomotive Portfolio series and covers the rebuilding by Richard Maunsell of the South Eastern & Chatha...

'BR rebel chairman resigns' THE GUARDIAN. 'Rebel rail chief in row' DAILY MAIL. 'I don't take it back says sacked rail chief' DAILY EXPRESS. Th...