Rail Books

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

Class 442: The Wessex Electrics First introduced in the late 1980s, the Class 442s were like nothing that had been seen before in terms of Southern...

Irish Railways: The Last 60 Years By the end of the 1950s, steam had already mostly disappeared from passenger work in the Republic of Ireland, yet...

Class 47s: From Inverness to Penzance 1982–85 The Class 47 diesel locomotives were a mainstay of British Rail with 512 built in the 1960s. They wer...

Cornish Rail: St Austell to Penzance This, the second of two volumes covering the railways of Cornwall, follows the railway through the beautiful ...

The Railways and Britain’s Nuclear Industry This book is about the important role played by the nation’s railways in Britain’s nuclear industry and...

The Last of the Welsh Coal Trains Despite the substantial decline of coal mining in the UK over the last three decades, until recently, coal was s...

Rail Freight: Wales and the Borders The changes to rail freight in Wales and the Borders since the 1980s have been dramatic and often the result o...

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 The last two decades have seen many changes to the railways of Central Scotland with different ownership of p...

Western Class Locomotives Unusually for a large class of locomotives, all Western Class locomotives had the same prefix. They were designed by and...

Class 70s In the late 2000s, Freightliner was looking to expand its locomotive fleet towards more powerful and fuel-efficient locomotives. The new...

Czech and Slovak Railways: Three Decades of Change, 1990–2020s The Czech Republic and Slovakia emerged as independent countries in 1993, as joint ...

Railways of Central Scotland The five years to each side of the millennium were a period of great change on the railway network with the advent of ...

HSTs: The Western Region From the late 1970s, for more than 40 years, the High-Speed Train (HST) was the mainstay of express services for many tra...

BR: From Green to Blue A fascinating but much overlooked era for the modern traction enthusiast is the changeover from the old British Railways gr...

Rail Freight: North West England This book illustrates the changing face of rail freight in North West England over 40 years. During that time the...

Highland Railways: Four Decades of Diesel Traction North of Perth Set against a backdrop of Scotland’s Highlands, this book illustrates the area’s ...

Norfolk Rail: 25 Years of the Wherry Lines Norfolk enjoyed loco-hauled passenger trains for many years, with Great Yarmouth being a popular destina...

Liveries of the WR Diesel Hydraulics The WR diesel hydraulic locomotives always exercised a special fascination for the modern traction enthusiast...

The Modern Railway 2021 Produced annually by the team from Modern Railways the leading monthly rail magazine, The Modern Railway 2021 offers a comp...

Rail Freight: South West England From the intricate china clay operations in Cornwall to the major limestone quarries of the Mendips, rail freight...

Scotland’s Railways: The Last 15 Years The last 15 years have seen many changes in Scotland’s rail network, including the replacement of old rolli...