Trains & Railways: General Interest

Today, most British Rail diesel locomotive types are represented in preservation, though some classes are much more prolific than others (in partic...

The Southern Railway, today headquartered at Chennai, Tamil Nadu, is the earliest of the seventeen zones of the Indian railway that is vital in con...

From nationalisation in 1948, British Railways built huge numbers of EMUs for suburban and short/medium-distance main line express duties, initiall...

The story of the most iconic railway company of the great age of steam. The initials GWR conjure an evocative picture of a Brunswick green locomot...

Formed in 1864 by the amalgamation of the Oswestry & Newtown, Newtown & Machynlleth, Llanidloes & Newtown and several other railway com...

For twenty-three years, up to the First World War, Alfred Williams worked in the Great Western Railway's Works at Swindon, the locomotive capital o...

While the first public passenger-carrying railway operated between Liverpool and Manchester from 1830, it was the construction of the Grand Junctio...

Bradshaws Guide of 1863 was the staple book to whats what and wheres where for the mid-Victorians and it gives the modern reader a unique insight i...

The Glasgow District Subway was second only to London in the UK and was the third underground system to be built anywhere in the world. Originally ...

Nothing is more evocative of the golden age of travel than the railway poster. Speed to the West shows some of the best railway posters used to pro...

The Waverley Route ran from Edinburgh, through the Scottish Borders, to Carlisle. Opening in 1862, the line was closed in 1969 as a result of the B...

Over the past generation the Class 66 has been one of Britains most successful and reliable diesel locomotives. After being introduced in the late ...

It is hard, from a distance of nearly two centuries, to imagine the impact the coming of the railways must have had at the start of the nineteenth ...

A luxury facsimile edition of Bradshaws Handbook of 1863, the book that inspired the BBC television series Great British Railway Journeys. The o...

As the Civil War ended, thousands of Union veterans imagined Kansas as a place to make a new beginning. Many veterans settled in the southeaster...

As authorised in 1835, the Great Western Railway extended from London to Bristol, but from the very earliest days, ambitious promoters were plannin...

The sleek lines of the HST 125 High Speed Train represent a massive stride in British locomotive design in the latter part of the twentieth century...

It was the most famous express train in the world. Hauled by the GWR's powerful Castle Class the Cheltenham Flyer established new records for a sch...

Renowned throughout the world as a centre for engineering excellence, the Swindon Works of the former Great Western Railway hold a special place in...

Sadly railway enthusiast and photographer Gerald Adams died recently, but fortunately for lovers of top-quality steam railway images he had earlier...

The Cornwall Railway was authorised on 3 August 1846 with the aim of constructing a broad gauge rail link between Plymouth, Truro and Falmouth. Aft...

Britain's hard-working freight trains are captured in a variety of locations, from the dramatic backdrop of the Cumbrian Hills to the more industri...

Signalman's Nightmare is the third volume of Adrian Vaughan's memories of his career on the Western Region of British Railways. The book begins in ...

It was a railway just waiting to be made. The capital, London, was in the east; Bristol, second city in the land, 110 miles to the west or a sea jo...

''British Railways Past and Present'' is a nationwide series of books featuring photographs of railway locations taken several decades ago and comp...

Crewe needs little introduction. Even in a country built on railways, with many other railway centres, Crewe is a railway town that is unequalled: ...

The Eastern United States offers some of the best scenery in the country, and some of the most demanding for the railways. They must traverse treac...