Key Books

Britain’s Railways Series, Vol. 32 In the late 1990s, most of the current locomotives in use on the national network were becoming very tired and ...

The preserved heritage museum railways of Britain are thriving. Not only is there continuing nostalgia for the steam locomotives of a bygone era, b...

Mike Wedgewood; Britain’s Railways Series, Vol 29; Set against the contrasting rural and industrial scenery of northern Lincolnshire, this book il...

Britain’s Railways Series, Vol 31 Grand Central is an innovative and pioneering railway open-access operator with a relatively short, but varied hi...

Class 67sBritain’s Railways Series, Vol 30; In the late 1990s, English, Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS) ordered a large fleet of 250 Class 66 lo...

Railways of South and West ScotlandBritain’s Railways Series, Volume 28The West Coast Main Line and the line from Kilmarnock south to Gretna were b...

Rail Freight: ScotlandThe Railways and Industry Series, Vol 6In the early 1980s, Ravenscraig steel works was the biggest source of rail freight nor...

Railways of South West Scotland: Two Generations of Photography Britain’s Railways Series, Vol 26Illustrated with over 180 photographs, this book p...

West Coast Main Line Locomotive HaulageThe West Coast Main Line, which runs from London Euston to Glasgow Central with branches to Manchester, Birm...

Class 59sIn the mid-1980s, one of British Rail’s major customers of heavy block trains, Foster Yeoman, suggested the unusual arrangement of running...

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Class 442s: The Wessex Electrics Britain’s Railways Series, Vol 27First introduced in the late 1980s, the Class 442s were like nothing that had bee...

Irish Railways: The Last 60 Years World Railways Series, Vol 4By the end of the 1950s, steam had already mostly disappeared from passenger work in ...

Class 47s: From Inverness to Penzance, 1982 -85 Book Britain's Railways Series: Volume 5 The Class 47 diesel locomotives were a mainstay of British...

Cornish Railways: St Austell to Penzance Britain's Railways Series: Volume 6 This, the second of two volumes covering the railways of Cornwall, fol...

The Railways and Britain's Nuclear Industry Book Britain's Railways and Industry Series: Volume 1 This book is about the important role played by t...

Last of the Welsh Coal Trains Book The Railways and Industry Series: Volume 2 Despite the substantial decline of coal mining in the UK over the las...

Rail Freight: Wales and the Borders The Railways and Industry Series, Volume 4 The changes to rail freight in Wales and the Borders since the 1980s...

Canadian Pacific in the Rockies The Canadian Pacific Railway was built to unite all the Canadian Provinces with a transcontinental line running fro...

Railways of Central Scotland 2016 20 Britain s Railways Series: Volume 14 The last two decades have seen many changes to the railways of Central Sc...

Western Class Locomotives: A tribute Britain's Railways Series: Volume 7 Unusually for a large class of locomotives, all Western Class locomotives ...

Class 70s Britain s Railways Series, Volume 16 In the late 2000s, Freightliner was looking to expand its locomotive fleet towards more powerful and...

Czech and Slovak Railways: Three Decades of Change, 1990 2020s World Railways Series, Volume 2 The Czech Republic and Slovakia emerged as independe...

Railways of Central Scotland Book Britain's Railways Series: Volume 2 The five years either side of the millennium was a period of great change o...