Railway - Diesel & Electric

Author: Peter J Green

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 184pp. 21.5cm by 28cm.

ISBN: 9781399086547

Weight: 1.2kg

Original Price: £30.00

Scottish Highland Railways describes eight great journeys by rail through northern Scotland, detailing the history of the lines while travelling along their modern-day routes.

Author: David Tucker.

Publisher: Crowood Press.

Paperback. 160pp. 19cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781785007927

Weight. 456

Original Price: £19.99

The locomotives of class 73 were used extensively throughout the region, in particular on Gatwick Express services, as well as on departmental and track recording trains. Their versatility in being able to work off 3rd rail electricity as well as diesel engined power gave them unrivalled areas of work.

Author: David Cable

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 228pp. 25cm by 20cm.

ISBN 9781526720610

Weight. 0.926Kg

Original Price: £30.00

This book takes a photographic look at these changes including a look at the routes, the stations and the trains including Classes 172, 315, 317, 378 and the brand new 710s with a brief history of each. And with so much freight sharing the Overground routes this is briefly looked at as well.

Author: Justin Bailey.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 176pp. 22cm by 28cm.

ISBN: 9781526772626

Weight: 1012

Original Price: £30.00

From a pioneering intercity route to EGIP.

Author: Ann Glen.

Publisher: Lily Publications.

Paperback. 112pp. 21cm by 29cm.

ISBN 9781911177371

Original Price: £18.00

In 1994 the West Coast Main Line franchise was won by Virgin Trains and it quickly set about improving service by introducing a range of standard trainsets to replace the variety of traction fleets that it had inherited.

Author: Fred Kerr.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 125pp. 22x28.5x1.4cm.

ISBN: 9781526793317

Weight: 900g.

Original Price: £25.00

When British Railways initiated its Modernisation Plan in 1955, its Western Region elected to trial locomotive designs with hydraulic transmission whilst BR encouraged designs with electric transmission.

Author: Fred Kerr.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 124pp. 22x28.5x1.4cm.

ISBN: 9781399004930

Weight: 900g.

Original Price: £25.00