2,320円 A gallery of spectacular photos celebrating the history of these popular locomotives of the late twentieth century. Peter J. Green first photographed Class 50 diesels in action in 1975, while they were still being transferred from the London Midland to the Western Region of British Rail. But it w...

2,320円 Former railway manager John Hodge continues his fascinating history of Wales' transport lines. Part of the West Wales Railways series, Whitland to Pembroke Dock continues the previous South Wales Main Line series covering the line from the Severn Tunnel through to ends of the main line in West Wa...

2,320円 The coastal and mountain scenery around the railway lines of North and Mid Wales is among the best in Great Britain. Here we look at the British Railways lines and the trains that ran on them in the years between 1980 and 2000, as recorded by my cameras during my many visits to the area. A few ph...

2,320円 A collection of striking and evocative photography capturing the interplay of trains and the spaces that surround them. David Goodyear's approach to railway photography has always been to capture the context of the railway within the landscape in which it finds itself. The railway train itself em...

2,320円 Anthony P. Sayer's BR Swindon Type 1 explores the history of the experimental 0-6-0 diesel-hydraulic locomotives on British Railways. In 1957 the Western Region of BR identified a need for 400 Type 1 diesel locomotives for short-haul freight duties but it was 1964 before the first was introduced....

1,760円 The ancient city of York has been closely associated with railways since their conception and promotion by the 'Railway King', George Hudson. Its impressive station and engine sheds have played host to the elite of East Coast Main Line traction as well as a wide variety of 'locals'. The major sta...

2,479円 This photographic album portrays the four classes of locomotives introduced to operate on the British Railways system, prior to Privatization in 1994.Increasing loads and deteriorating reliability of older classes necessitated the design of new, higher horsepower classes of diesel locomotives to ...

18円 When Stanier joined the LMS in 1932, as their CME, he was expected to breathe new life into this ailing giant. Since its formation it had steadily lost ground to its main rival, the LNER. In Doncaster, Nigel Gresley and his team, with an eye to advancing locomotive design at the same time as maki...

1,760円 The photographer shares over 200 images from his sixty-year career covering railroad tourism across the world, plus the stories behind them. In this lavishly illustrated memoir, William D. Middleton invites readers to climb aboard and share with him sixty years of railroad tourism around the glob...

1,120円 Passengers on the early railways took their lives in their hands every time they got on board a train. It was so dangerous that they could buy an insurance policy with their ticket. There seemed to be an acceptance that the level danger was tolerable in return for the speed of travel that was now...

1,921円 "Some of the most accomplished scholars of railroad history…tell the story of these enterprises which totally re-shaped the western landscape."ー The Michigan Railfan After Promontory profiles the history and heritage behind the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United Stat...

1,760円 Rail By Request is an enthusiast's personal story and tells how the author visited, photographed, and spent time at every request stop on mainland Britain. It also explains where his love of railways is rooted, why he began this odyssey and how it became a very different and important experience ...