Book Review: Railway Crimes Committed In Victorian Britain by Malcolm Clegg
This is an interesting book that describes a wide variety of crimes committed on, around, and against the railway in Victorian Britain.
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Book Review: Narrow Gauge and Industrial Railways by Brian and Ian Reading
An intriguing insight into Britain’s narrow gauge and industrial railways, with unusual locomotives and on lines often lost in vegetation.
Book Review: MGR Coal Trains by Mike Rhodes
This book is a historical archive of what was an everyday scene when Merry-Go-Round coal trains were to be found in throughout most of the UK.
Book Review: Lost Railways of the World by Nigel Welbourn
This book describes the author's "Top Ten" lost lines as well as many other quirky lines that are a mystery why they were ever built in the first plac…
Book Review: British Rail Motive Power in the 1980s by Andrew Walker and Vaughan Hellan
This book is a collection of photographs of the railway scene in the 1980s, with many locomotives and locations that are now just memories.
Book Review: Diesel Locomotives Around The World by Peter J. Green
This book presents a selection of the author’s best photographs from 45 countries taken during his travels around the world between 1975 and 2019.
Book Review: Class 68 and Class 88 Locomotives by John Jackson
A photographic record of every Class 68 and Class 88 locomotive and of them working for both Direct Rail Services and on loan to other operators.
Book Review: Railways and Industry on the Brecon and Merthyr: Bargoed to Pontsticill Jct., Pant to Dowlais Central by John Hodge & Ray Caston
This book describes the Brecon & Merthyr Railway from Bargoed to Pontsticill Junction with photographs of every location in this part of the line.
Book Review: Gresley’s Silver Link, the evolution of the A4 Pacifics 1911-1941 by Tim-Hillier Graves and Ronald Hillier
This book continues Tim Hillier-Graves’ studies of the LNER’s Chief Mechanical Engineers, following his studies of Peppercorn and Thompson.
Book Review: Bob Reid’s Railway Revolution: Sir Robert Reid, how he transformed Britain’s Railways to be the Best in Europe by George Muir
Bob Reid’s Railway Revolution describes the life and career on the railway of Sir Robert Basil Reid and the history of the railways since nationalis…