Book Review: Class 47 Locomotives – Celebrating Sixty Years by Martin Measures
This book illustrates many locations where Type 4 Class 47 locomotives were seen during their more than sixty years of service on Britain’s railways…
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Book Review: Britain’s Railways from the Air by Rob Higgins
This book takes the reader on an aerial view of Britain’s railways with previously-unseen views of industrial installations, marshalling yards, and …
Book Review: West Coast Main Lines 1957-1963 by John Palmer
This book provides a history of the West Coast Main Lines and a detailed look at its locomotives and operations during the years 1957 to 1963.
Book Review: The Brunels, Father and Son by Anthony Burton
This book looks at the work of Britain’s great engineering geniuses Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and his less well-known father Marc Brunel.
Book Review: Rail Freight, Yorkshire and North East England by Paul Shannon
This book illustrates the changing pattern of freight traffic on the railways of Yorkshire and North East England during the last 40 years.
Book Review: Narrow Gauge Railways of Saxony by John Woodhams
This book provides an illustrated history of narrow gauge railways in the German state of Saxony, many of which still see steam-hauled trains every da…
Book Review: Historical Railways Around The World by Alon Siton
This book provides an illustrated record of trains and locomotives that often look totally unusual but were to be seen on railways around the world.
Book Review: German Express Steam Locomotives by Andreas Knipping
This is an English translation of a German book that looks at the evolution of express steam locomotives in Germany from around 1850 to 1960.
Book Review: Heavy Freight Locomotives by George Woods
This is a portfolio of the author’s photographs of the more-powerful diesel locomotives that were used to haul heavy freight around the UK
Book Review: Railways in Northern Lincolnshire – Four Decades of Change by Mike Wedgwood
This book illustrates contrasts to be found in northern Lincolnshire's railways with a varied range of passenger and freight train operators and liver…