Book Review: Luxury Railway Travel, A Social and Business History by Martyn Pring
This book tells how railway companies developed luxury rail travel to satisfy demand from the upper and middle classes and wealthy overseas visitors.
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Book Review: Great Western 0-6-2 Tank Engines, Absorbed & Swindon Designed Classes by David Maidment
This book describes the Great Western Railway’s 0-6-2 tank engines, including those it inherited from railways in South Wales at the 1923 Grouping.
Book Review: George & Robert Stephenson: Pioneer Inventors and Engineers by Anthony Burton
This biography describes the influence of the great British engineers George and Robert Stephenson on our world from the days of early railways.
Book Review: British Transport Police, a definitive history of the early years and subsequent development by Malcolm Clegg
This book traces how the British Transport Police evolved from different forces covering railway companies, docks, and other transport entities.
Book Review: Freight Trains in the North of England, an Illustrated Survey 1955-2018 by John Matthews
This book provides an appreciation of a variety of freight trains, their locomotives often dirty and unloved, spanning 60 years from the mid-20th cent…
Book Review: Boat Trains, The English Channel & Ocean Liner Specials by Martyn Pring
This book tells the story of boat trains, from those that ran to connect with cross-channel ferries to ones that connected with Transatlantic liners.
Book Review: BR Swindon Type 1 0-6-0 Diesel-Hydraulic Locomotives – British Railways Class 14 : Their Life In Industry by Anthony P. Sayer
This book describes what happened to Class 14 0-6-0 diesel-hydraulic locomotives that after withdrawal by British Rail were sold for use in industry.
Book Review: Trams and Buses on Stamps, A Collector’s Guide by Howard Piltz
This is the author’s fourth book in his "Transport Philately" series, this one being dedicated to stamps featuring trams and buses from around the w…
Book Review: The Railway That Helped Win The Crimean War by Anthony Dawson
This book provides a detailed account of the railway built for the Crimean War and which became known as the Grand Crimean Central Railway.
Book Review: Black Country Steam, Western Region Operations 1948-1967 by Paul Dorney
This book illustrates trains on Western Region lines in the Black Country from the formation of the Western Region in 1948 to the end of steam in 1967…