Trains and railways: general interest

In 1970, British Railways Board established a new subsidiary company to take over the design, manufacture and maintenance of its rolling stock.

The railways changed the world.

The Isle of Sheppey sits just off the north coast of Kent, where the Medway and Thames estuaries flow into the North Sea.

This book is a comprehensive history of all the 0-6-0 tender locomotives built by the Great Western Railway or by railways absorbed by the GWR from the very earliest broad gauge engines designed by Daniel Gooch to the Collett 2251 class of the 1930s some of which were still under construction at nationalisation.

British railways evolved through wars and state control, facing innovations like diesel engines and challenges from road transport amid financial struggles.

The essence of northern UK railways through photographs, illustrating their impact on the landscape and their historical and modern significance.

The popular image of railway travel during the Second World War is that of a sparse service of dirty and grossly overcrowded trains that were forever being delayed.

Chronicles the evolution of British steam locomotives from the Victorian to Edwardian eras.

Alles Wissenswerte uber die schnellste deutsche Zuggattung: Michael Dorflinger erzahlt kompetent die Geschichte des Intercity-Express, der 1985 das Hochgeschwindigkeitszeitalter bei der Bahn einlautete.

From 1901 to 1938 the Lake Shore Electric claimed to be-and was considered by many-"e;The Greatest Electric Railway in the United States.

Wie kaum eine andere Metropole bündelt die deutsche Hauptstadt eine Vielzahl von Bahnstrecken, fast alle von großer Bedeutung auch für den Fernverkehr.

From 1901 to 1938 the Lake Shore Electric claimed to be-and was considered by many-"e;The Greatest Electric Railway in the United States.

Written by best-selling author Julian Holland, this is the story of British Railways.

From the opening of the Great Western Railway in 1838 through to the end of steam traction on the Western Region in 1965 the 'engine shed' formed an important role in both the infrastructure and operation of the railway.

Stiebende, heiße Wolken, kraftvolles Schnauben: Faszination und Leidenschaft für Dampfloks haben auch lange nach dem Ende ihres planmäßigen Einsatzes nicht nachgelassen.

Nachhaltig mit dem Nachtzug durch Europa reisen!

This thematically arranged book examines the evolution of rail transport and a number of railway workforces across Europe in the modern era, from around 1880 to 2023.

This book examines in words and pictures the network of British branch lines and other secondary routes that survived the mass closures of the 1960s.

The first railway to reach Preston was the North Union (NU), with a line from Wigan in October 1838.

Entwicklung und Projekte bei der IG Hirzbergbahn.

In this second volume the support crew present more stories about 60009 Union of South Africa and also John Cameron's second locomotive, 61994 The Great Marquess, which he acquired in 2003.

As time goes by, progression is always happening across the UK rail network, and a major aspect of this is the trains that operate on the network.

The South Maitland and Richmond Vale Railways formed an extensive network of standard-gauge lines serving collieries in the New South Wales coalfields.

Signalling on British Railways underwent massive change from Nationalisation in 1948 to privatisation in the 1990s, but throughout this period much of the network's infrastructure dated from the era of the Big Four and the pre-Grouping companies.

The Merseyrail service on the Wirral gets plaudits for its service levels, but this is nothing new.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die Dampflokomotive in ihren Hauptentwicklungslinien" verfügbar.

In 2025 the Tanfield Railway in County Durham celebrates its 300th anniversary, having been constructed in 1725 as a wagonway to carry coal from the North Durham coalfields to the River Tyne.