Maggs's Railway Curiosities

What are the wrong kinds of leaves on the track?At which station could you buy your ticket from a booth in a tree?How do smooth wheels grip smooth rails?Why don’t locomotive boilers explode?What is a slip coach?How can a railway wagon be moved without a locomotive?Colin Maggs is one of Britain’s leading railway historians and in 1993 was awarded the MBE for services to railway history. The author ...