Trains and railways: general interest

The Severn Bridge Railway was more than once linked with that of its contemporary, the first Tay bridge: but whereas the Tay failed structially and quickly, the subject of this book failed commercially and protractedly.

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Incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1835 and completed just six years later, the Great Western Railway was a stupendous technical achievement.

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.

The four seasons pass by like a gliding ship, each signalled by a transformation of changing colors and hues of light, thus providing a form of marker to these passages of time.

East Anglia can sometimes be overlooked in favour of the larger mainlines that run through this country but, as can be seen by this exhibition of the sights found within the boundaries of an Anglia Day Ranger, it can be an interesting and often picturesque place to spend time on the rails.

Featuring 256 drawings, this history of military trains and railways from 1853 through 1953 describes how the railroad transformed the nature of warfare.

What sort of person undertakes to rob a multi-ton train surging down a set of rails at high speed?

The range and variety of British railway stations is truly astonishing: from the tiny wayside halt made of corrugated iron to the magnificent stone-built city centre terminus.

Between 1900 and 1950, Americans built the most powerful steam locomotives of all time--enormous engines that powered a colossal industry.

The railway route between Oxford and Cambridge - nicknamed the Varsity Line - was opened in stages in the nineteenth century.

By the late 1950s the motive power in use by British Railways, both on passenger and freight services, was changing fast with diesel and electric traction becoming increasingly common.

The 1980s and 1990s were exciting times for British Rail.

With its famous hotel, St Pancras is now the London terminus of the Eurostar, with a high speed rail link to the Kent coast and the Channel Tunnel.

This fourth volume of illustrated Bradshaw's Guides takes the traveller from the London Bridge and Victoria stations via the former South Eastern Railway to the 'watering places' of the coast of Kent.

During the 1960s, British Railways withdrew its thousands of steam locomotives from the national network.

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Just as life in Britain generally changed dramatically during the 1960s, so did London Transport's buses and their operations.

The Branch Lines of Somerset offers a wide-ranging view of 160 years of rail travel.

Railways Around Rugby: Pre-Grouping to Rail Blue tells the story of change on the railway network in the Rugby area, covering a period spanning from before the Grouping of the Railways in 1923 to the BR Rail Blue era of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

Over the course of several volumes, Allen Jackson uses an array of photographs to lavishly illustrate the story of signalling in the principal constituents of the LNER - continuing here with the second volume, which tells the story of the North Eastern Railway in Durham, Northumberland and Cumbria.

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.

The ubiquitous Class 66 locomotive first emerged onto the British freight scene in 1998, with many people getting their first close-up look at these engines at the Open Day at Toton in August that year.

In this book Alfred Mierzejewski describes how the German economy collapsed under Allied bombing in the last year of World War II.

Originally published by UNC Press in 1952, The Railroads of the Confederacy tells the story of the first use of railroads on a major scale in a major war.

When London first applied as a contender to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, there was cynical speculation as to whether the transport infrastructure could cope should it win.

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.

Over more than fifty years, the railways of the Eastern Counties have seen a great number of changes.

Approved in May 1833 at the same time as the London & Birmingham Railway, the Grand Junction Railway was intended to act as a link between the London & Birmingham and the Liverpool & Manchester Railway.

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.

Glory Days: Western Region Steam Around London is a photographic tribute to the former Great Western Railway (GWR) in the post-war years up to the end of Western Region (WR) steam on 31 December 1965.

The Ypres sector of the Western Front was held predominantly by the British and Dominions Armies from 1914 to 1918.

With words and pictures, a railway enthusiast examines the huge changes in the British railway network over a 50-year period.

Over the past generation the Class 66 has been one of Britain's most successful and reliable diesel locomotives.

Bradshaw's Guide of 1863 was the staple book on what's what and where's where for the mid-Victorians and it gives the modern reader a unique insight into the world of the nineteenth-century railway travellers.

This book celebrates the British railway station hotel.

The 1960s saw the last hurrah of steam on the railways - the final period of steam-powered locomotives dominating the main line.

One of the most evocative reminders of Victorian ingenuity at the British seaside is the much-loved cliff lift.

The South Wales Railway was promoted in the 1840s with the aim of completing a rail link between England, Wales and Ireland.

The industrial and minor railways of the former counties of Cumberland and Westmorland are neglected topics deserving of greater attention.

The Midland main line from London St Pancras to the north of England is one of Britain's most important trunk routes.

"e; This comprehensive guide will assist the traveler in planning an excursion and executing it with minimum effort and maximum pleasure.

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.

Derek Cross was one of a group of outstanding railway photographers, who mostly took pictures during the steam and early modern traction era, 1950s and 1960s.

A pictorial history of the Great Western Railway's numerous four-coupled tank engines.

DB Cargo emerged from the government's sell-off of the rail freight sector in the mid-1990s.

The Great Western Castles were one of the most successful locomotive designs of the twentieth century in terms of both performance and efficiency.

The Midlands has always offered a range of interesting locales for the rail enthusiast - Nottingham, Guide Bridge, Birmingham New Street and, of course, Crewe.

In the early 1980s, I began to visit South Wales on a regular basis to photograph the railway scene.