Trains & Railways: General Interest

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...

Alan Maund lived in Worcestershire all his life and had an enthusiasm for steam. He travelled extensively in Britain and built up a large railway p...

In the days when coal was king, an ambitious plan was laid for an east-to-west cross country rail route, connecting the Manchester Ship Canal at Wa...

The cross-country Ruabon to Barmouth railway was originally built to fulfil the desire of connecting the town of Llangollen with the rest of the ra...

From Lostwithiel to the China Clay Rails takes the reader on a train journey from the estuary of the River Fowey to the port of Par, thence on a ci...

`The Last Years of Steam Around the East Midlands covers most of the railways across the county and the locomotives that worked over them. In the m...

On 22 May 1934 a zenith of locomotive construction in the UK was reached when an enormous new locomotive entered traffic for the London & North...

Moquette is the carpet-like fabric covering the seats we sit on in London's Tubes, buses, trams and Overground trains - and here is a brilliantly c...