Trains & Railways: General Interest

The only national guide to exploring Britain's past railway heritage on foot, by bike or even horse!

The North Eastern Railway in the First World War, like all of the British Railways, underwent a lot of changes, and not just from the inevitable lo...

The North Eastern Railway underwent extreme change after the outbreak of war in August 1914. Within months, the company raised its own battalion of...

The book takes an in-depth look at the East Coast Main Line-King's Cross to Edinburgh-between 1939 and 1959. This is carried out in a series of cha...

This book describes seven branch lines which climbed into the mountain ranges that span the length and breadth of the countries of India and Pakist...

This is the shocking true story behind the botched introduction of Automatic Half-Barrier level-crossings into Britain. January 1968 saw the conve...

From the early 1800s and for nearly 170 years, steam locomotives were built in Great Britain and Ireland, by a variety of firms, large and small. J...

In this engaging social history of the impact of railroads on American life, H. Roger Grant explores the railroad's golden age of 18301930. To capt...

Situated in the Welsh borderland to the West of Oswestry, the scenic Tanat Valley reached westwards into Wales, its Llangynog terminus nestling whe...

George Hudson was the greatest British railway entrepreneur of the 19th century. In 1848, he controlled over 1,000 miles of railway and, when it ca...

The British Railways Pilot Scheme orders of 1955 included six North British Type 2 diesel-hydraulic locomotives, these being introduced during 1959...

JIM BLAKE's second volume of his photographs featuring the London Underground cover the period from 1985, shortly after the Thatcher regime's destr...

Railway modelling offers a unique opportunity for the modeller to construct and operate an authentic simulation of the real thing. When one creates...

My British Rail Life focuses on the nationalised rail industry. From leaving school in 1975, to the date of privatisation, 1 April 1994, Colin Varn...