Trains & Railways: General Interest

Although steam engines were seldom used for everyday train transportation by 1960, they live on in the minds of those fortunate enough to have expe...

Wryly humorous and quintessentially British, Three Men and a Bradshaw collects the previously unpublished holiday journals of John Freeman, who tra...

For over 150 years Britain's railways have relied on a system of semaphore signalling, but by 2020, all semaphore signals and lineside signal boxes...

The railway route from London to Paris has always been both historic and romantic. Until the sixties the overnight sleeper train from Waterloo or V...

The drastic railway closures of the 1960s led to the slow decay and re-purposing of hundreds of miles of railway infrastructure. Though these build...

If you are looking to reduce their carbon footprint but also want to travel, then look no further than this indispensable and comprehensive guide t...

Liverpool has many railway firsts in the world: an inter-city service, an electrified overhead railway, a large-scale marshalling yard, a deep-leve...

With a glorious colour picture on each page, Last Train to Haulage Heaven illustrates the changes and inevitable decline of diesel locomotive-worke...

This second volume covering the lines of the former Severn & Wye Railway in the Forest of Dean continues the journey begun in Rails to the Fore...

A fascinating but much overlooked era for the modern traction enthusiast is the changeover era from the old British Railways green and maroon to th...

Part of the West Wales Railways series, this book starts at Clarbeston Road, covers the oil-rich town of Milford Haven, where oil refineries were o...

Throughout its length from London to Glasgow via Crewe and Carlisle, with a loop through the West Midlands and spurs to Holyhead,Liverpool and Manc...

Derek Cross was one of a group of outstanding railway photographers, who mostly took pictures during the steam and early modern traction era, 1950s...

Early Japanese Railways 1853-1914 is a cultural and engineering history of railway building in Japan during the Meiji era.The importance of early r...