Trains & Railways: General Interest

For countless holiday-makers, a trip to the seaside resorts of the West Country used to mean travelling on the network of lines operated by the Gre...

Jeff Vinter, consultant to the BBC's popular Railway Walks series, here provides a detailed guide to ten of the best railway walks in the territory...

Between 1840 and 1910, more than a dozen proposals were put forward to link the village of Enniskerry to the town of Bray by rail or tramway. Some ...

Cheshire Railways is a detailed insight into the branch lines of Cheshire. Mike Hitches provides us with a rich pictorial history, highlighting the...

Rex Conway’s first book was a miscellany of images that introduced a remarkable archive of railway photographs. This book takes the reader on a ste...

This is a comprehensive dictionary of locomotive names for railway enthusiasts. As well as alphabetically listing engine names, the author provides...

Rex Conway's first three books were published in the mid-1970s, and since then his archive has been gathering dust. Through this selection of 200 o...

The development of railways in Britain came in the 1830s as a result of the needs of industry and of the public eager for the novelty and cheapness...

Over the years railways have seen a diverse mix of traffic and many unusual events have occurred. There have been special services for Glastonbury ...

A reference work to guide both enthusiast and professional through the often specialist language that has developed during the long history of rail...

In 200 photographs, Rod Steele takes us from Crewe, the hub of the London Midland Region and most trainspotters' Mecca, to London Euston, via the s...

Describes the history, both pre-preservation and post-preservation, of the Yorkshire and Lancashire preserved railways, including Keighley and Wort...

Lancashire, steam's last stronghold.

A locomotive headboard is a board placed on the front of an engine that shows the name of the train. First used in 1912 by the North British Railwa...

'Trip', if you happened to be a Swindonian and one that worked 'inside' the Great Western Railway's Swindon Works, was the event of the year. When,...

The Deltic (or Class 55) was one of the most powerful diesel locomotives ever to run on the British Railways network. Capable of a top speed of 100...

The Abermule railway disaster is still the worst single line rail disaster the UK has ever known. It occurred on the Cambrian railway in 1921, kill...

In the 1970s, Andy Sparks was an avid train-spotter and keen photographer. As he travelled around England, he captured day to day life on the railw...

The third volume in Robert Forsythe’s series looking at Britain’s railway shipping services through their publicity. The Eastern Region was a part ...

Roger Siviter has gathered together a collection of top-quality photographs that illustrate the last three years of steam traction on Britain's rai...

Diaries of Sir Daniel Gooch.

The small firms that merged were stone quarries that had produced road setts, pre-mixed concrete, paint paper and even cosmetics. The constituent q...

Engine Sheds in Camera presents a fascinating and wide-ranging record of engine sheds and motive power depots in Britain, mainly in the 1950s and '...

This is a short history of one of the most famous steam locomotive manufacturers in Britain. Nasmyth, Wilson & Co. became a familiar name acros...