Trains & Railways: General Interest

The Pennine ridge Englands backbone has provided a dramatic backdrop to the steam locomotive for nearly 180 years. Armies of navvies, c...

This 79th volume in the growing Recollections series takes us on a journey from Birmingham to Cheltenham. Departing from Birmingham''s Snow Hill st...

The InterCity 125s were introduced into passenger service from 1976 and instantly revolutionised rail travel. As the worlds fastest diesel tra...

By 1905, Cornelius and Mary Abby Tenney Rogers were used to travelling and each had made other trips - many to Boston, to the greater New York City...

This book illustrates the work of Network Rail over the past eight years to transform the Western Region from a diesel-only railway, with track lay...

The Great Northern Railway out of Kings Cross was always in the limelight with the Scotch Expresses and it carried the baton to just north of Donca...

The fourth in a regional series of books examining the industrial locomotives and railways of England, Wales and Scotland, this volume covers the c...

Driven by the sudden realisation that steam had all but disappeared on his local GE line, David Christie set about initially recording the London t...

Many audacious and improbable schemes for new railways were dreamed up in the nineteenth century, but surely none matched the plan to link the Crom...

Best known for his Civil War photographs, Alexander Gardner also documented the construction of the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division (later ...

In 1833, the Wilmington and Raleigh Rail Road Company set out to connect the port city of Wilmington to North Carolina's capital. When it was done ...

This is the 49th volume in the Recollectios series and the second title published by Silver Link to celebrate the Talyllyn Railway. As with all th...

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

Fugitives fleeing from slavery in Kentucky, Missouri, and points farther south traversed the entire state of Illinois while moving northward. Bu...

Like so many youngsters in the 1950s and 1960s Alan Clarke was a keen railway enthusiast and spnt a number of years out and about with his ABC Comb...

2014 sees the 120th anniversary of the opening of the West Highland Railway between Craigendoran and Fort William, when the through journey from Gl...

The drama of the Cumbrian countryside combined with some of the most magnificent steam locomotives to be found anywhere in Britain. This follow-up...

For nearly seventy years, John J. Young Jr. photographed railroads. With unparalleled scope and span, he documented the impact and beauty of railwa...

Since the 1970s Keith Strickland has travelled the world in search of steam. In this, his fourth photographic collection of steam from around the g...

Incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1835 and completed just six years later, the Great Western Railway became one of the great icons of the Age of...

The Glasgow, Cowal & Bute Route follows the development of the railways on the southern shores of the River Clyde, describing their influence o...

The Scarborough & Pickering Railway line was opened on 16 July 1885. Having first been mooted 1848, it arrived three years after the opening of...

The stretch of railway line between Hull and Bridlington forms part of northern Englands historic Yorkshire Coast Line (or the Hull to Scarborough ...

The ''Golden Valley Line'' - is so called due to the descent from the summit of the line at Sapperton Tunnel to Gloucester being cut through a yell...

For the first quarter of the twentieth century, trams constituted the main workhorses of the public road transport system before Birmingham Corpora...

Thanks to a quirk of fate, and the survival of so many locomotives in the Barry scrapyard, the GWR is well represented in the steam preservation sc...

John Stretton follows fellow enthusiasts Stewart Warrington, David Mather and John Gilroy in bringing to print his memories of those now seemingly ...

Theres never a dull moment in this entertaining collection of experiences as Geoff Body and Bill Parker present often hilarious highlights from the...

The steam locomotive was a British invention and even today, the world speed record for steam remains with a British locomotive, Mallard. Steams fi...

Having survived for over two decades as a horse drawn operation, shipping slate downhill between Blaenau Ffestiniog and Portmadoc and the empties b...

This is a vivid, contemporary account of the sights and sounds of the last two years of commercial steam on British Railways from the detailed diar...

The aim of this series is to appeal to readers of all ages, perhaps for different reasons...For the younger reader there are wonderful pictures of ...

This book covers the different types and applications of 15 gauge railways from the Duffield Bank Railway of the 1870s (and its antecedents) to th...

The aim of this series is to appeal to readers of all ages, perhaps for different reasons...In this volume: We travel back to the year 1969 For the...