Trains and railways: general interest

Looking Back at Class 40 Locomotives is a full-colour photographic album depicting an iconic locomotive class in a variety of settings.

Italy is dominated by its national operator Trenitalia.

In the 1950s, British Railways set upon the Modernisation Plan, which would set out the way British Rail would operate in the future.

Mit der Erfindung der Freizeitparks erkundet der Leser eine spannende und gleichsam lehrreiche Reise durch die Geschichte von Freizeitparks.

With photographs dating back nearly forty years, John Dedman offers a fascinating selection of photographs of traction in the north-east of England.

The Class 08/09 was to become the main diesel shunter of the British Railways era.

With its size, France is home to a huge number of locomotives.

This is a portrait of a railway network that became beloved of the last generations lucky enough to experience mainline steam.

British Railways' Modernisation Plan of the 1950s started, sensibly, with small orders for a variety of diesel locomotives, intended for different purposes, from a range of manufacturers including its own workshops at Swindon and Derby.

The quarter-century after the Rainhill Trials was an exciting period of growth and experimentation on the railways.

Manchester was Britain's first railway city.

Being situated in the centre of the UK, the West Midlands have always been the hub of the railway network.

Many audacious and improbable schemes for new railways were dreamed up in the nineteenth century, but surely none matched the plan to link the Cromford Canal with the Peak Forest Canal at Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire using a series of rope-worked inclines.

The Woodhead Route from Manchester to Sheffield has achieved almost mythical status, not only thanks to the Woodhead Tunnels, but also because of the unique EM1 and EM2 electric locomotives.

Basingstoke and Salisbury are important rail centres on what was originally the London & South Western Railway, and later the Southern Railway and finally the South Western Section of the Southern Region.

The East Midlands is rich in railway history and heritage.

Steam's final fling was almost over.

The construction of the Merthyr, Tredegar & Abergavenny Railway was a remarkable engineering achievement.

Packed with rare and unpublished images, Sussex Steam takes the reader on a journey around picturesque Sussex and the steam trains that used to call it home.

Strathclyde Traction covers the former Strathclyde Region Council area of the west of Scotland, stretching from the southern end of the Western Highlands to the Southern Uplands, which was formed by merging the city of Glasgow with the counties of Ayr, Bute, Dumbarton, Lanark, Renfrew, Stirling and parts of Argyll.

Tyneside is widely acknowledged as the birthplace of the railway.

The Class 58s were introduced in 1983, and were a significant departure from normal build standards.

This class of AC electric locomotive comprised 100 members, built from 1965 onwards.

Steam Nostalgia in the North of England is a pictorial story of British railways in the north of England, in those heady days when steam ruled the rails.

The North Yorkshire Moors Railway is Britain's most popular heritage railway, and runs for 18 miles through the national park of the same name.

All too often, when observing our railways, focus falls entirely on the locomotives or multiple units that haul the many services that travel on them.

The Class 56 heavy freight locos were first introduced in the late 1970s.

Thirty Class 67 locomotives were ordered by EWS for use on parcels traffic to help replace the Class 47s that they had inherited.

This book illustrates the history of modern diesel and electric traction in Hampshire over recent decades.

This is a pictorial tribute to the Class 20 locomotive.

This book sets out to illustrate locomotive-hauled passenger stock in the twenty-first century.

The Class 47 was built between 1962 and 67 as the Brush Type 4 by both Brush Traction and British Railways Crewe works, eventually numbering 512 examples.

This is a pictorial tribute to the British Rail workhorse, the Class 31.

Well-proportioned, versatile, aesthetic, durable - the English Electric Class 37, the great survivor of the modernisation-plan diesel fleet, deserves all of these accolades and more.

Named after the Napier Deltic diesel engines that powered them, the Class 55 Deltic locomotives served on Britain's railways from the early 1960s until the last examples were retired at the beginning of 1982.

Adrian Vaughan, born in Reading in January 1941, fell in love with the entire spectacle of the steam railway.

Mechanical signal boxes and semaphore signals are the last vestige of Victorian technology still to be found on Britain's railways.

In recent years the importance of the personal element in locomotive design and operation has increasingly come to the fore.

In this, his second book on Fife's railways, local enthusiast and photographer Michael Mather delves into the past with a selection of photographs mainly from the 1950s and 1960s, but also dating back to the beginning of the twentieth century, along with some from more recent years, covering the main, secondary and branch lines, locomotives, trains and infrastructure of the county's railways, most of which has now disappeared.

Across Scotland there are remnants of many disused railway lines, reminders of the wider network that once served a variety of locations.

The Midland Railway Society's Collection was started by Roy F.

Well into the 1960s, the steam locomotive held sway on many of Britain's railway lines.

After being built in and around 1989, the Class 60 diesel locomotives were built for heavy goods trains mainly used on Class 6 or 7 workings.

The Class 43 locos were first constructed from 1975 onwards at Crewe Works.

The railways first came to Doncaster in the 1840s.

Looking Back at Class 24 & 25 Locomotives takes a closer look at these plucky and versatile Type 2 locos in a full-colour photographic album.

This wonderful volume deals with Classes 44, 45 and 46 from their earliest days with the introduction of D1 Scafell Pike in 1959 through to the last few Peaks to survive in everyday service.

Looking Back at Riddles & Ivatt Locomotives is a photographic album depicting the designs of both Robin Riddles CBE and Henry George Ivatt.

Looking Back at Stanier Locomotives is a photographic album depicting the designs of Sir William Arthur Stanier, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway from the 1930s.

Looking Back at Sulzer Locomotives is a full-colour photographic album depicting the various classes of locomotives on British Railways that enjoyed Sulzer power.