Railway

This book looks at the types of locomotives and multiple units that have been introduced into the UK since 1994, when the government privatised British Rail into a series of privately operated franchises.

Author:David Cable

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 263pp. 25.5cm by 19.5cm.

ISBN 9781473864375

Weight.1.030Kg

Original Price: £30.00

This book features the photographic artistry of many of the UK’s leading railway photographers who, as members of the Rail Camera Club, have been familiar figures at the lineside for many years.

Compiled by John Hillier.

Publisher: Silver Link Publishing

Hardback. 136pp. 24cm by 17cm.

ISBN 9781857945645

Weight. 986

Original Price: £35.00

An in-depth look at the past, present & future of rail transport across Britain's capital city.

Author: John Glover.

Publisher: Crecy Publishing Ltd.

Hardback. 192pp. 22cm by 28cm.

ISBN 9780860936909

Original Price: £25.00

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’.

Author: David Mather.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 144pp. 22x28.5x1.4cm.

ISBN: 9781399090360

Weight: 950g.

Original Price: £30.00

The British were at the forefront of railway development for the first fifty years of the nineteenth century.Railway Empire tells the story of how the British gave railways to the world, not only in the empire, but also in other countries outside areas of direct influence.

Author: Anthony Burton

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 264pp. 18cm by 25.5cm.

ISBN 9781473843691

Weight. 926g

Original Price: £25.00

Opposition to railways from the 19th to 21st centuries.

Author: David Brandon & Alan Brooke.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Hardback. 416pp. 17cm by 25cm.

ISBN 9781526700209

Original Price: £30.00

From George Stephenson to the Present Day

On the 27th September 1825, the first public railway steam train left New Shildon for Stockton-on-Tees. The driver was George Stephenson and the engine he was driving was the ‘Locomotion No.1’.

Author: George Turner Smith.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 204pp. 18x25.2x1.7cm.

ISBN: 9781526736390

Weight: 800g.

Original Price: £25.00

Colin Boococks' railway photographs are already familiar as they have been featured in a variety of railway books and magazines. This book shows around 300 of his favourite images that illustrate the many different aspects of railway photography.

Author: Colin Boocock

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 255pp. 22cm by 29cm.

ISBN 9781526700124

Weight. 1.280Kg

Original Price: £30.00

When a 35 mile stretch of the former Waverley route from Edinburgh to Carlisle reopened on 6 September 2015, it became the most significant reopening of any UK railway since the infamous Beeching Report ,'The re-shaping of British Railways', was published in March 1963.

Author: Gareth David

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 330pp. 18cm by 25cm.

ISBN 9781473862005

Weight.1.045Kg

Original Price: £30.00

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 to him. Journeying across the whole railway map to capture these often ignored stops – not just for posterity, but for the journey.

Author: Anthony Hart

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 208pp. 22cm by 29cm.

ISBN 9781526781123

Weight. 1125g

Original Price: £30.00

The view, from a national perspective, of some of the most interesting lines and stations which have been lost since the dawn of the railway age

Author: Nigel Welbourn.

Publisher: OPC

Hardback. 256pp. 21cm by 30cm.

ISBN 9780860936916

Weight. 1065

Original Price: £28.00

Rob Shorland-Ball's researches for this book, and several visits, convinced him that he was putting together a jigsaw of facts. No previously published account of the area have brought together these stories of iron & steel making, limestone quarrying, coal mining, terra cotta, lead mining, and the railway systems they all needed to move their products to market.

Author:Rob Shorland-Ball

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback.144 pp. 22cm by 29cm.

ISBN 9781526753779

Weight. 0.870Kg

Original Price: £25.00