Trains & Railways: General Interest

Class 37 Locomotives were introduced to British Rail from 1960 onwards and eventually numbered 309. In Scotland, they were initially allocated to E...

Great Railway Journeys: The Flying Scotsman Route to Edinburgh is the fifth in Roger Masons Great Railway Journeys series. It is a captivating reco...

In 2019 it was announced that the Isle of Wights iconic 1938 Stock tube trains were to be withdrawn and replaced with a new fleet of refurbished ex...

The book looks at rail travel from the passengers point of view, beginning when a coach drawn by horses, rumbled down the newly laid tracks linking...

Hop aboard this fascinating journey through the early days of railway trains to the modern day superfast Maglevs which can reach speeds of 600km/h....

New York City subways the century-old transit system has survived two World Wars, the Great Depression, and Hurricane Sandy. It and the millions o...

At the nationalisation of Britians railways in 1948, the railways in the north-east of England had been placed within the North Eastern Region of B...

In Odd Corners of the GWR Kevin Robertson has brought together a fascinating collection of little-known facts and rare images to throw new light on...

The Orient Express, in the collective imagination, embodies the golden age of travel. The fabrics, the silverware, the woodwork; their evocative fr...

There is always a sense of adventure when going on a railway journey. Whether it is aboard the Orient Express from London to Istanbul, or travellin...

This title features key facts and figures spanning over 150 years of British railway history, from the early 1800s to the end of the golden era of ...

Trope Publishing Companys new Mobile Edition Series identifies fine art photographers shooting in a new way, using mobile devices as their primary ...

The Somerset & Dorset Railway, known as the S&D (said to also stand for Slow and Dirty or Serene and Delightful), ran from Bath across the ...

This beautifully illustrated and fully updated book features 26 of the world's greatest railway journeys, from those of epic scope, such as the Tra...

Eric Sawford has brought together a fascinating collection of facts and rare photographs to shed new light on the history of the Eastern Region. He...

The South Maitland and Richmond Vale Railways formed an extensive network of standard-gauge lines serving collieries in the New South Wales coalfie...

During the 1960s, British Railways withdrew its thousands of steam locomotives from the national network. The process started gradually in the earl...

In this book Martyn Hilbert presents a pictorial survey of Electrical Multiple Units in the North of England, from Staffordshire to the Scottish bo...

The artist and conservationist David Shepherd had a lifelong interest in railways. They were not only the subject of many of his paintings, but he ...

South Wales has long been a popular destination for railway enthusiasts. The areas industrial heartland has ensured a continuous procession of trai...