Category: Reviews

By Chris Booth THIS excellent publication is Volume 2 of a projected comprehensive three-volume work on the LD & ECR. Volume 1 was published in 2017 and the third volume will focus mainly on The

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By Tim Hillier-Graves THE latest in Pen & Sword’s Locomotive Portfolios series takes an in-depth look at one of the more successful experimental steam locomotives seen on British metals – the LMS ‘Turbomotive’. Unlike the

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by Pip Dunn OVER the years there have been many reference books listing locomotive and rolling stock fleets, starting most famously with Ian Allan’s ‘ABC’ guides. Crecy Publishing, which now owns the former Ian Allan

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BOOKS Southern Steam Days Remembered II By Kevin Derrick IT SEEMS hard to believe it is now half a century since steam operations ceased on British Railway’s Southern Region. This lavishly produced limited edition photographic

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By B W L Brooksbank and Peter Tuffrey THIS is a condensed softback version of a book produced by Ben Brooksbank 20 years ago, and has the added attraction of several new photographs. As an

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IN PASSENGER terms, Britain has the fastest-growing railway in Europe, and although the damage caused to the physical network by the Beeching cuts of the 1960s can never be rectified, huge strides have been made

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By Adrian S Garner THIS second volume in Adrian S Garner’s exhaustive study of monorails continues the story from 1900 to the mid-20th century, and reveals some remarkable railways in the UK and further afield,

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By Andy Sparks ANDY Sparks is no ordinary railway photographer, and this is not your average railway book filled with front three-quarter views of trains going around curves. Blessed with a good eye for composition

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By the Dean Forest Railway Museum Trust THE publication of a first volume by the Dean Forest Railway Museum Trust (now out of print) about railways in the Forest of Dean, triggered an avalanche of

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