Trains and railways: general interest

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.

The opportunity to commit crime on the railways began from the day they were being built.

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.

This companion volume to the author's successful Sussex Railway Stations Through Time focuses in vivid detail on the stations located within the densely populated county of Surrey, an area largely unaffected by the drastic cuts of the 1950s and 1960s.

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.

The British Transport Police became the first Police Force in the UK to establish a dog section when Airedale terriers began to patrol the docks of Hull in 1908.

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.

Steam's final fling proved a melancholy experience for the many enthusiasts who had witnessed the gleaming giants of the rails in their prime.

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.

1968: The Last Year of Steam is a photographic album in full colour, depicting this important year with month-by-month coverage of over thirty-five different kinds of locomotives as British Railways phased the last steam locomotives out of use.

Sixties Spotting Days Around London & the Home Counties is a full-colour photographic album, depicting the capital's once-great terminus stations and engine sheds throughout the 1960s and covering the variety of locomotive types from that great period of change on our railways.

Sixties Spotting Days Around the Eastern Region offers striking colour photographs depicting the 1960s with coverage of the steam, diesel and electric locomotives from that great period of change on our railways.

Seventies Spotting Days Around the Eastern Region is a full-colour photographic album, depicting the 1970s, with coverage of both diesel and electrics from that great period of change on our railways.

Sixties Spotting Days Around the London Midland Region is a photographic album depicting the 1960s with coverage of steam, diesel and electric traction from that great period of change on our railways.

Seventies Spotting Days Around the London Midland Region is a full-colour photographic album depicting the 1970s with coverage of both diesel and electric traction from that great period of change on our railways.

Sixties Spotting Days Around the Scottish Region is a photographic album in full colour, depicting the 1960s with coverage of both steam locomotives and the new traction that was taking over during that great period of change on our railways.

Seventies Spotting Days Around the Scottish Region is a full-colour photographic album, depicting the 1970s with coverage of both diesel and electrics from that great period of change on our railways.

Sixties Spotting Days Around the Southern Region is a photographic album in full colour, depicting the 1960s with coverage of both steam locomotives and the new traction that was taking over during that great period of change on our railways.

Seventies Spotting Days Around the Southern Region is a full-colour photographic album depicting the 1970s with coverage of both diesel and electric traction from that great period of change on our railways.

Seventies Spotting Days in the Western Region is a full-colour photographic album depicting the 1970s with coverage of both diesel-electric and diesel-hydraulics from that great period of change on our railways.

Seventies Spotting Days: Chasing the Westerns is a full-colour photographic album, depicting the final few years of the Class 52 Westerns from 1974 to the latter 1970s.

Mainly covering the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, this collection of images offers a fascinating survey of one of the iconic locomotives of twentieth-century Britain: the Class 40.

British Rail's Modernisation Plan was published in December 1954.

In the mid-1950s there were rumours that the Northern line was to be upgraded from manual operation to an automated line.

John Law moved to South East London in 1970 and joined British Rail four years later.

This book celebrates the British railway station hotel.

Porthmadog was once host to a wide variety of industries.