Trains & railways: general interest books

Like so many youngsters in the 1950s and 1960s, Alan Clarke was a keen railway enthusiast and spent a number of...  Read More >>

One man's remarkable model railway, and how it came to be. Lavishly illustrated, this book will delight any modeller....  Read More >>

A new stunning collection of photographs documenting the railways of the picturesque state of Wyoming.  Read More >>

With a wealthy of previously unpublished images comes a photographic celebration of Class 20 locomotives on the...  Read More >>

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This book proved to be an instant success when first published, explaining as it did, in a simple and comprehensible...  Read More >>

A photo-book covering railways around North Wales from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s consisting mainly of unpublished...  Read More >>

To evaluate the ridership potential of the proposed Baltimore-Washington magnetic-levitation rail line (the maglev),...  Read More >>

Peter Timm's two previous books on the subject of Swindon works have been combined and rewritten to form the basis...  Read More >>

Many of the photographs selected are rare and unusual for a variety of reasons which should appeal to railway historians...  Read More >>

Joint Operations Around Manchester and in South Yorkshire, is the latest volume in a series of books by Robert Pixton,...  Read More >>

Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the newly formed country of Czechoslovakia built an ambitious national rail network...  Read More >>

Great photography of locomotives on the East Midlands railways in the final years of steam traction.  Read More >>

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Chicago's system of elevated railways, known locally as the L, has run continuously since 1892 and, like the city,...  Read More >>

From Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America's railroad...  Read More >>

East of Babylon, the 75-mile segment of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) stretching from Bay Shore to Montauk is...  Read More >>

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A softback album showcasing 35 years of development at this popular Kent miniature line, by well known writer and...  Read More >>

Starting with the great migration along the Oregon Trail in the 1840s, central Wyoming has long been a transportation...  Read More >>

The First World War was to lead to the first major step in Britain's railways becoming a unified system.  Read More >>

Good Quality Photographs, Interesting Text, Long Informative Captions, Useful To Modellers  Read More >>

Good Photographic Coverage, Informative Long Captions, New Factual Information, Useful to Modellers.  Read More >>

High-quality historical colour and monochrome images printed on high-quality art paper.  Read More >>