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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

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

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

Ogmore, Garw & Porthcawl branches.

Author: John Hodge & Stuart Davies.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Hardback. 222pp. 22cm by 28cm.

ISBN 9781526726599

Original Price: £30.00

A transport hub that links Britain.

Author: Laurence Waters.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Hardback. 224pp. 18cm by 25cm.

ISBN 9781526740380

Original Price: £25.00

The West Riding of Yorkshire boasted the most complex railway network in Britain, comprised at various times of seven railway companies, with an eighth trying to secure a foothold, eleven significant joint lines and several minor systems.

Author: Bernard Warr.

Publisher: Crowood Press Ltd.

Paperback. 144pp. 19cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781785008467

Weight: 425g

Original Price: £16.99

A Celebration of Railway Architecture.

Author: Robin Leleux

Publisher: Unique

Hardback. 128pp. 22cm by 28.5cm.

ISBN: 9780995749375

Weight: 840g

Original Price: £19.99

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

This is the first time a specific book containing the best of S.C. Townroe's images (the majority seen for the first time) has been available,

Author: Kevin Robertson.

Publisher: Noodle Books.

Paperback. 120pp. 21cm by 27cm.

ISBN 9781909328167

Weight. 501

Original Price: £16.50

This book looks at the network over the last seventy years, from Nationalisation through to the present day. 

Author: Colin Boocock.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 231pp. 22.5x28.5x1.6cm.

ISBN: 9781526780881

Weight: 1.25kg.

Original Price: £35.00